Scud

v. i. [imp. & p. p. SCUDDED; p. pr. & vb. n. SCUDDING.] [Dan. skyde, to shoot, shove, push, skud, shot, gunshot, a shoot, young bough, skude, little vessel, A-S. sceotan, to shoot, dart, rush, haste away. See SHOOT.]

1Sense 1. To be driven or to flee or fly with haste; to run with precipitation; to fly. “The first Nautilus that scudded upon the glassy surface of warm, primeval oceans.” I. Taylor.

2Sense 2. (Naut.) To be driven with precipitation before a tempest, with little or no sail spread. Totten.

To pass over quickly. Shenstone.

1Sense 1. The act of scudding; a driving along; a rushing with precipitation.

2Sense 2. Loose, vapory clouds driven swiftly by the wind. “Borne on the scud of the sea.” Longfellow.

3Sense 3. A slight, rapid shower. [Prov. Eng.]

4Sense 4. A small number of larks, less than a flock. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.