scumber

noun

1. (countable, uncountable, usually)Dung; excrement.

   “[…]having no regard of me, and never looking upon me but as the scumber of the world.”

   “A human vulture, God sent thee The world's great scavenger to be. To cleanse it of its scumber;”

   “[…] the Scumber of the Fox, the Spraints of the Otter[…]”

   “Let’s see, if by your scumber, you are fox!”

   “Someone shouts something and he turns and shouts back, ‘Just going for a scumber, all right? Back in a moment.”

verb

1. To defecate.

   “But he that gaines the glory here Muſt ſcumber furtheſt, ſhite moſt clear.”

   “Beware of fire when you ſcumber, Though to ſh-- [shit] fire were a wonder,”

   “[…]and old Nick turn me into Bumfodder, if this did not make me ſo hide-bound and coſtive; that for four or five Days I hardly ſcumber'd one poor Butt of Sir-reverance and that too was full as dry and hard, I protest”

   “He’s not to come in the house, though, Natasha. Other than to scumber, I suppose. / What? / To disencumber. His bowels.”

2. To defecate.

   “Some tyme pei han a siknesse bat pei mowe not pisse and byn ilost therbi, and also whan pei mowe not scombire”

   “a brace of gray-houndes When they are ledd out of their kennels to ſcumber”

   “But that their beds were heav'd on high ; They thought some dog under did lie, And meant i' th' chamber (fie, fie, fie,) To scumber.”