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SCOUT (from O. Fr. escouter, mod. ecouter, See also: watch the enemy and bring information of his numbers, movements, whereabouts, &c
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The name has also been applied to a particular class of See also: light speedy cruisers in the See also: British See also: navy
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After the See also: South See also: African War of 1899-1902, the importance of military scouting received much See also: attention in See also: England in consequence of the prominence given to it by Major-General See also: Baden-See also: Powell, of See also: Mafeking fame
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Under the latter's auspices an unofficial attempt to See also: foster the qualities required was made by the institution of the Boy Scouts, a voluntary organization which, starting in 1908, had by 1910 enrolled many hundreds of thousands of boys throughout the See also: United See also: Kingdom, with branches overseas
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Various birds of the See also: auk See also: family, such as the See also: guillemot and the See also: puffin, are known as " scouts." The name is also given colloquially to See also: college servants at See also: Oxford and Harvard See also: Universities
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It then answers to the " See also: gyp " of Cambridge, Trinity College, See also: Dublin, and Durham, which has been variously explained as See also: short for " gipsy," as taken from Tiny, See also: vulture, from a supposed reference to a grasping character, or as representing an old word " gippo " (Fr. jupeau, tunic), used of a scullion or kitchen servant
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In the above senses, " scout" must be distinguished from the word meaning to flout, or reject with ridicule and scorn, which is derived from the Icel. skitta, taunt, jeer
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In the military sense, see See also: Sir R
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Baden-Powell, Scouting, and Scouting for Boys
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The Boy Scouts' See also: movement in England has official papers in the weekly Scout and monthly Headquarters See also: Gazette
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