Scumming

This question of "scumming" is very important to the maker of high-class facing and moulded bricks, and where a clay containing calcium sulphate must be used, a certain percentage of barium carbonate is nowadays added to the wet clay. ❋ Various (N/A)

You lobbyist love scumming individuals who rob the poor to make yourselves rich off our hard working backs of Americans. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But that's what Simmons and her contemporaries did, scumming away to ensure clean sugar even when the cone it came from was made from the dregs of a hogshead. ❋ Andrew Beahrs (2010)

It was a cookie you can imagine enjoying after a long day of casting tankards or dipping candles or scumming sugar. ❋ Andrew Beahrs (2010)

Anybody seen that male escort/reporter scumming around? ❋ Unknown (2006)

It's not a very admirable way - I hate scumming off my friends. ❋ Unknown (2006)

A green glow, shimmering and shining, reached up from the floor of the audience hall and stained the white marble rail and balustrades to the unpleasant green of algae scumming on a still pond. ❋ Berberick, Nancy Varian (2000)

Due to their superior hygiene, they are recommended for use in the fermentation of night soil and for cases involving pronounced scumming, e.g. due to rapid evaporation, since the gasholder cannot get stuck in the scum. ❋ Unknown (1989)

As they carry much water vapour, there is a risk of spoiling green bricks by condensation (e.g. softening of bricks, surface cracking, and scumming by salts deposited from the products of combustion). ❋ Unknown (1984)

The drying out of the latter on the moulded bricks (before firing) produce unsightly scumming. ❋ Unknown (1984)

The general practice is to bring them to that point without scumming, to let the feculencies separate from the juice by cooling and by rest, and to wash out the clarifiers every second or third time they are filled. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)

The well-known property of oil in "scumming over" water was recalled, two or three stagnant pools were treated with it, and to the delight of the experimenters, not a single larva was able to develop under the circumstances. ❋ Woods Hutchinson (1896)

Sam meanwhile arranged the pieces in different parcels at his direction, and minded the kettle, in which a great boiling and scumming was going on. ❋ Unknown (1892)

His employment, from his first coming into the academy, was an operation to reduce human excrement to its original food, by separating the several parts, removing the tincture which it receives from the gall, making the odour exhale, and scumming off the saliva. ❋ Unknown (1726)

White Wine, and boil it to a candy'd height; then put in your Fruit, with the Juice that comes from them; then boil them very quick, and stir it often, scumming it clean; and when you see it very clear, and of a good ❋ Richard Bradley (1710)

Gather your Barberries in dry Weather, and lay them in their Bunches into an earthen glazed Pot, then boil a quantity of Water made strong with Salt, scumming it as it rises, and let it stand to be quite cold; then pour it upon the Barberries, so as to cover them an Inch, and cover it close. ❋ Richard Bradley (1710)

Ere, Bob. Did you know that the fat [scummer] [Beattie] is now playing for [Accrington Stanley]? He's gonna get a right royal scumming if he plays at Fratton Park next season! ❋ Gaz06 (2013)

1.man last night at [leroys] party, i was [stright] scummin' man 2.tony's scummin' man! 3.i [scummed] in my pants ❋ Lil Cuco (2004)

That was [so mean] of them; they are [scum]. ❋ M Fulker (2015)

Damn, [what a] [scum] [Jake Paul] is. ❋ YangGang2024 (2020)

[You are] scum. [Absolute] scum. ❋ Col (2005)

I [touched] the bottom of the [canal] when i was [scumming] yesterday. ❋ Time89 (2005)

[Obito]: Those who does not follow the rules are [scum]. But those who [abandon] their friends are worse than scum. ❋ ACNOLOGIA (2021)

[Frankie] is a [scum]. ❋ Theatregeek147 (2017)

1. It’s great to see The Scum throwing away another [3 points]. 2. Oh, The Scum [scored] in the 754th [minute] again, at least they’re still 4-1 down. ❋ Johnnytwotits (2021)

[Pimps], Drug-dealers, Gangsters, Child pornographers: These are all examples of [low-life], [worthless scum]. ❋ BadLieutenant (2004)