noun

• (weaponry, chiefly historical) A whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails; a lash.
  "He flogged him with a scourge."
• (figurative)
  "And therfore the faithfull had neede of inuincible conſtancie and incredible pacience, that they may know them to be gods squorges, and the inſtrumentes of his wrath, […]"
• (figurative)
  "Graffiti is the scourge of building owners everywhere."

verb

• (figurative)
  "For a Patient and Thankful Heart in Sickness. Whom thou lovest, O Lord, him dost thou chasten, yea, every son that thou receivest, thou scourgest, and in so doing thou offerest thyself unto him, as a father unto his son. For what son is whom the father chasteneth not?"
• (figurative)
  "And that the Remonſtrant cannot vvaſh his hands of all the cruelties exercis'd by the Prelats, is paſt doubting. They ſcourg'd the Confeſſors of the Goſpel, and he held the Scourgers garments."
• (figurative)