Scours

It’s called scours or shipping fever and it comes from stress, like your hamster. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Dogs, when constipated, will search for and devour the long, lanceolate blades of couch-grass (_Triticum repens_); horses and mules, when they have "scours," eat clay; cattle with the "scratches" have been seen to plaster hoof and joint with mud, and then stand still until the healing coating dried out and became firm; and elephants have been known, time and again, to plug up shot holes in their bodies with moistened earth. [ ❋ James Weir (1881)

TV Replay scours the vast television landscape to find the most interesting, amusing, and, on a good day, amazing moments, and delivers them right to your browser. ❋ Jason Hughes (2012)

It's not about the cost of materials: he scrounges and scours flea markets and online auctions for things that can apply to the tables. ❋ Marshall Heyman (2011)

Peter Liversidge scours the streets for any old junk as long as it is yellow for his shelf exhibit. ❋ Unknown (2011)

States is the only country that actively scours old and far-flung battlefields for its lost troops. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Every day, the online team scours pricing of online electronics rivals and adjusts the prices of thousands of its online-only items. ❋ Dana Mattioli (2011)

Proposals are being mooted on two fronts: one could establish a new version of the Internet Watch Foundation IWF – the organisation which presently scours the net for illegal images of children, obscene adult content and "non-photographic child sexual abuse hosted in the UK" – to deal with illicit filesharing; the other would put Google and the government on a collision course. ❋ Unknown (2011)

When it comes time for Westminster, he simply holes up for a couple of days and scours the corners of the Internet occupied by canine enthusiasts and dog show publications. ❋ Joshua Robinson (2011)

He scours websites to find bulbs because of shrinking store supplies, he says. ❋ Miguel Bustillo (2011)

Alexena scours the streets for unloved and discarded furnishings and then gives them a brand new lease of life. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Since last October, France has set up an Internet piracy police service that scours the Web for people downloading films and music illegally. ❋ Frances Robinson (2011)

As a result, dedicated staff members monitor the restaurant's cleanliness daily; chefs are not allowed to leave until a manager signs off on their stations; and every Sunday, the staff scours the entire restaurant, breaking down the shelving and refrigerators as part of a "deep clean." ❋ Sophia Hollander (2011)

The artist Miguel Calderón, whom I befriended a year earlier, keeps a stash of canned beer near a speaker and scours the room to find me a date. ❋ Daniel Hernandez (2011)

We've seen it time and time again: a reporter helicopters in and scours the city for tales of grit and decay that reinforce the Detroit of popular imagination -- or the occasional oases of progress that defy it -- and then, just as quickly, heads out of town, conventional wisdom re-confirmed. ❋ Arianna Huffington (2011)