scout

A person sent out to gain and bring in tidings; especially, one employed in war to gain information about the enemy and ground.

An act of scouting or reconnoitering.

A member of any number of youth organizations belonging to the international scout movement, such as the Boy Scouts of America or Girl Scouts of the United States.

A person who assesses and/or recruits others; especially, one who identifies promising talent on behalf of a sports team.

A college servant (in Oxford, England or Yale or Harvard), originally implying a male servant, attending to (usually several) students or undergraduates in a variety of ways that includes cleaning; corresponding to the duties of a gyp or possibly bedder at Cambridge University; and at Dublin, a skip.

A fielder in a game for practice.

(up until 1920s) A fighter aircraft.

Term of address for a man or boy.

To explore a wide terrain, as if on a search; to reconnoiter.

To observe, watch, or look for, as a scout; to follow for the purpose of observation, as a scout.

To reject with contempt.

“to scout an idea or an apology”

To scoff.

A swift sailing boat.

A projecting rock.

The guillemot.

To pour forth a liquid forcibly, especially excrement.