Brewer's: Scouring

I'scaped a scouring—a disease. Scouring is a sort of flux in horses and cattle. (Latin, Malum proetervehi, French, L'échapper belle.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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