scours

It’s called scours or shipping fever and it comes from stress, like your hamster.

Hamster; Dance – The Bleat. 2010

Dogs, when constipated, will search for and devour the long, lanceolate blades of couch-grass (_Triticum repens_); horses and mules, when they have "scours," eat clay; cattle with the "scratches" have been seen to plaster hoof and joint with mud, and then stand still until the healing coating dried out and became firm; and elephants have been known, time and again, to plug up shot holes in their bodies with moistened earth. [

The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals James Weir 1881

Every day, the online team scours pricing of online electronics rivals and adjusts the prices of thousands of its online-only items.

Retailers Try to Thwart Price Apps Dana Mattioli 2011

It's not about the cost of materials: he scrounges and scours flea markets and online auctions for things that can apply to the tables.

Roasting Rich and Famous Marshall Heyman 2011

Since last October, France has set up an Internet piracy police service that scours the Web for people downloading films and music illegally.

Fortify Copyrights, Europe Artists Say Frances Robinson 2011

Since last October, France has set up an Internet piracy police service that scours the Web for people downloading films and music illegally.

Fortify Copyrights, Europe Artists Say Frances Robinson 2011

As a result, dedicated staff members monitor the restaurant's cleanliness daily; chefs are not allowed to leave until a manager signs off on their stations; and every Sunday, the staff scours the entire restaurant, breaking down the shelving and refrigerators as part of a "deep clean."

Few Restaurants Achieve Perfection Sophia Hollander 2011

Proposals are being mooted on two fronts: one could establish a new version of the Internet Watch Foundation IWF – the organisation which presently scours the net for illegal images of children, obscene adult content and "non-photographic child sexual abuse hosted in the UK" – to deal with illicit filesharing; the other would put Google and the government on a collision course.

Illegal filesharing: web blocking measures in the dock 2011

The artist Miguel Calderón, whom I befriended a year earlier, keeps a stash of canned beer near a speaker and scours the room to find me a date.

Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

The artist Miguel Calderón, whom I befriended a year earlier, keeps a stash of canned beer near a speaker and scours the room to find me a date.

Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011