A person who secretly watches and examines the actions of other individuals or organizations and gathers information on them (usually to gain an advantage).
To act as a spy.
To spot; to catch sight of.
To search narrowly; to scrutinize.
To explore; to see; to view; inspect and examine secretly, as a country.
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.
A fighter aircraft.
Term of address for a man or boy.
A swift sailing boat.
A projecting rock.
The guillemot.
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 scoff.