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▪ I. scumming, vbl. n.|ˈskʌmɪŋ|
[f. scum v. + -ing1.]
1. a. The action of removing scum from the surface of a liquid. Also fig.
1611Cotgr., Escumement,..a scumming, or skimming. 1704Swift Batt. Bks. Misc. (1711) 220 There is a Brain that will endure but one Scumming:..Wit, without Knowledg, being a sort of Cream. 1832–53Whistle-binkie iii. 37 There is naething abroad like our hearty aitmeal, Nor guid sheep⁓head-kail, for nae outlandish woman Has the gumption to ken that they need sic a scummin'.
attrib.1683Pettus Fleta Min. i. 333 Put the Salt-Petre gently..in it, and turn it about with the scumming Spoon.
†b. The action or process of forming or throwing up a scum. Obs.
1661Rabisha Cookery Dissected 40 Set it over the fire, watch the boyling and scumming thereof; then [etc.].
2. concr. in sing. and pl. The matter removed in the form of scum from the surface of a liquid. † Also, the matter rising to the surface as scum.
1530Palsgr. 268/1 Scomyng of a pot, escume de pot. 1567Golding Ovid's Met. vii. 368 And where the fire had from the pan the scumming cast..the ground did springlike florish there. c1720W. Gibson Farrier's Dispens. iii. (1734) 133 Most Apothecaries make this Syrup with the brownest Sugar, and reserve the Scummings for Clysters. 1841Mangnall's Questions 415 From the scummings of the sugar when boiling an inferior kind of spirit is made.
▪ II. ˈscumming, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
That scums. (In quot. app. = scumbling.)
1818Sporting Mag. II. 89 This most eminent artist has lately adopted..a sort of scumming, smearing, slubbering way of sketching. |