scud

adj

1. (Scotland, slang)Naked.

verb

1. (intransitive)To race along swiftly (especially used of clouds).

   “clouds scudding across the sky”

   “When scudding on from snare to snare I plied My anxious visitation, hurrying on, Still hurrying hurrying onward ...”

   “From the thick copse the roebucks bound, The startled red-deer scuds the plain […]”

   “The wind was high; the vast white clouds scudded over the blue heaven […]”

   “I saw a rhinoceros, buffalo (a large herd), eland, quagga, and sable antelope, the most beautiful of all the bucks, not to mention many smaller varieties of game, and three ostriches which scudded away at our approach like white drift before a gale.”

2. (ambitransitive)To run, or be driven, before a high wind with few or no sails set.

   “If the Main Topsail should by any accident be split, it will be still necessary to have a lofty Sail set in such a Sea, and the close reefed Topsail singly will be the best to scud under.”

   “all night they were obliged to scud under bare poles.”

3. (Northumbria)To hit or slap.
4. (Northumbria)To speed.
5. (Northumbria)To skim flat stones so they skip along the water.
6. To scrape (skins) to remove hair etc. as part of the tanning process.

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The act of scudding.
2. (countable, uncountable)Clouds or rain(s) (or snow, etc) driven by the wind.

   “But high above the flying scud and dark-rolling clouds, there floated a little isle of sunlight, from which beamed forth an angel's face […]”

   “... he will have a wet journey, seeing it is apout to pe a scud."”

   “Places near the sea have frequent scuds, that keep the atmosphere moist, yet do not reach far up into the country; making thus the maritime situations appear wet, when the rain is not considerable.”

   “She'll cure this scud o' sentimental win' Wi' something o' a mair substantial kin';”

   “... banks o' scud drave ragged past, And blashed upon his face, For blast on blast, frae the southwast, Did ither raging chace,[…]”

3. (uncountable)A loose formation of small ragged cloud fragments (or fog) not attached to a larger higher cloud layer.

   “Small, ragged, low cloud fragments that are unattached to a larger cloud base and often seen with and behind cold fronts and thunderstorm gust fronts. Such clouds generally are associated with cool moist air, such as thunderstorm outflow.”

4. (countable, uncountable)A gust of wind.
5. (countable, uncountable)A scab on a wound.
6. (countable, uncountable)A small flight of larks, or other birds, less than a flock.
7. (countable, uncountable)Any swimming amphipod, usually Gammarus
8. (countable, uncountable)A swift runner.
9. (countable, uncountable)A form of garden hoe.
10. (countable, uncountable)A slap; a sharp stroke.
11. (Scotland, slang, uncountable)Pornography.
12. (Scotland, slang, uncountable)The drink Irn-Bru.

    “a bottle of scud”

name

1. A Soviet-developed tactical ballistic missile.