scud

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To run or skim along swiftly and easily.
• intransitive verb Nautical To run before a gale with little or no sail set.
• noun The act of scudding.
• noun Wind-driven clouds, mist, or rain.
• noun A gust of wind.
• noun Ragged low clouds, moving rapidly beneath another cloud layer.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To run swiftly; shoot or fly along with haste.
• Nautical, to run before a gale with little or no sail set.
• To throw thin flat stones so that they skip over the surface of water.
• In tanning, to remove remaining hairs, dirt, etc., from (skins or hides) with a hand-knife after depilation.
• To pass over quickly.
• To beat or chastise, especially on the bare buttocks; skelp; spank.
• noun Dirt, lime, and fat left in the grain of a skin after it comes from the puer.
• noun The act of scudding; a driving along; a running or rushing with speed or precipitation.
• noun Small detached clouds driven rapidly along under a mass of storm-cloud: a common accompaniment of rain.
• noun A slight flying shower.
• noun A small number of larks, less than a flock.
• noun A swift runner; a scudder.
• noun A smart stroke with the open hand; a skelp; a slap: as, to give one a scud on the face.
• noun A beach-flea or sand-flea: some small crustacean, as an isopod or amphipod.
• noun One of the largest scuds is Gammarus ornatus of the New England coast.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb rare To pass over quickly.
• intransitive verb To move swiftly; especially, to move as if driven forward by something.
• intransitive verb (Naut.) To be driven swiftly, or to run, before a gale, with little or no sail spread.
• noun The act of scudding; a driving along; a rushing with precipitation.
• noun Loose, vapory clouds driven swiftly by the wind.
• noun Prov. Eng. A slight, sudden shower.
• noun (Zoöl.), Prov. Eng. A small flight of larks, or other birds, less than a flock.
• noun (Zoöl.) Any swimming amphipod crustacean.
• noun See the Note under Cloud.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• adjective slang, Scotland Naked.
• verb intransitive To race along swiftly (especially used of clouds).
• verb intransitive, nautical To run before a high wind with no sails set.
• verb Northumbrian To hit.
• verb Northumbrian To speed.
• verb Northumbrian To skim.
• noun The act of scudding.
• noun Clouds or rain driven by the wind.
• noun A gust of wind.
• noun A scab on a wound.
• noun slang, Scotland Pornography.
• noun slang, Scotland Irn-Bru.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb run before a gale
• verb run or move very quickly or hastily
• noun the act of moving along swiftly (as before a gale)