Scudname

• 1

  A Soviet-developed tactical ballistic missile.

scudadj/skʌd/

• 1

  slangNaked.

scudverb/skʌd/

• 1

  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 ...
• 2

  nauticaltransportTo 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

  To hit or slap.

• 4

  To speed.

• 5

  To skim flat stones so they skip along the water.

• 6

  To scrape (skins) to remove hair etc. as part of the tanning process.

scudnoun/skʌd/

• 1

  The act of scudding.

• 2

  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."
• 3

  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

  A gust of wind.

• 5

  A scab on a wound.

• 6

  A small flight of larks, or other birds, less than a flock.

• 7

  Any swimming amphipod, usually Gammarus

• 8

  A swift runner.