Thesaurus: scavenger

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1. v. A person whose employment is to clean the streets of a city, by scraping or sweeping, and carrying off the filth. The name is also applied to any animal which devours refuse, carrion, or anything injurious to health.
2. n. a chemical agent that is added to a chemical mixture to counteract the effects of impurities
3. n. someone who collects things that have been discarded by others
4. n. any animal that feeds on refuse and other decaying organic matter
5. A person whose employment is to clean the streets of a city, by scraping or sweeping, and carrying off the fifth. The name is also applied to any animal which devours refuse, carrion, or anything injurious to health. Scavenger beetle (Zoöl.), any beetle which feeds on decaying substances, as the carrion beetle. -- Scavanger crab (Zoöl.), any crab which feeds on dead animals, as the spider crab. -- Scavenger's daughter Etym: [corrupt. of Skevington's daughter], an instrument of torture invented by Sir W. Skevington, which so compressed the body as to force the blood to flow from nostrils. and sometimes from the hands and feet. Am. Cyc.
6. A person whose employment is to clean the streets of a city, byscraping or sweeping, and carrying off the fifth. The name is alsoapplied to any animal which devours refuse, carrion, or anythinginjurious to health. Scavenger beetle (Zoöl.), any beetle which feedson decaying substances, as the carrion beetle.-- Scavanger crab (Zoöl.), any crab which feeds on dead animals, asthe spider crab.-- Scavenger's daughter Etym: [corrupt. of Skevington's daughter],an instrument of torture invented by Sir W. Skevington, which socompressed the body as to force the blood to flow from nostrils. andsometimes from the hands and feet. Am. Cyc.
7. n:100 n. a chemical agent that is added to a chemical mixture to counteract the effects of impurities n. any animal that feeds on refuse and other decaying organic matter