scall
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Compare Icelandic skalli (“a bald head”), English scald.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
scall (countable and uncountable, plural scalls)
- A scurf or scabby disease, especially of the scalp.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 13:30:
- It is a dry scall, even a leprosy upon the head.
- (mining) Loose ground.
Derived terms[edit]
Adjective[edit]
scall
References[edit]
- “scall”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- Joseph Wright, editor (1905), “SCALL”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volumes V (R–S), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC.
- “scall”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “scall”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
Anagrams[edit]
Irish[edit]
Verb[edit]
scall (present analytic scallann, future analytic scallfaidh, verbal noun scalladh, past participle scallta)
Conjugation[edit]
conjugation of scall (first conjugation – A)
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form