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Dwelly also gives fraoch-an-ruinnse for the cross-leaved heath ( E. tetralix ) which might mean `heather with the long tail,' but more probably means `heather for rinsing or scouring.
' In Scots English (and Burns's songs) reenge (in its variant forms) is a `scouring pad made of the twisted stems of heather,' E. tetralix presumably being best for this purpose.
(And ply--the number of layers of paper in the product--isn't everything, the Envision Preference Ultra is a 3-ply "premium" product, but it still feels like a scouring pad after touching a virgin fiber tissue.)
It is not always that everything is hidden and science must ferret out the mysteries by scouring for unknown facts, although often science proceeds in the manner of finding new facts.
Since the actor is only 23, this means scouring a rather meager past.