scall (skal)

[Early mod. E. also skall, skal, scaule; scabbine . IMG:content-0219.png:[blocks in formation] [ scalled , To be revenge on this same scall , scurvy, cogging companion. Shak ., M. W. of W., iii. 1. 123. scallawag, n. See scalawag . scalled, scald2 (skâld), a. skalled ; scall +-ed2. Prob. in part dependent on the orig. noun, Sw. Dan. skal , etc., shell (see scale1); cf. Dan. skaldet , bald.] 1. Scabby; affected with scald: as, a scald head. With scaled browes blake and piled berd. Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 627. If [she have] a fat hand and scald nails, let her carve the le , and act in gloves. B. Jonson, Epicœne, iv. 1. Hence-2. Scurvy; mean; paltry; wretched; contemptible. Would it not grieve a King... to have his diadem Sought for by such scald Knaves as love him not? Marlowe , Tamburlaine the Great, I., ii. 2. 5371