scath

English

Alternative forms

• scathe, scaith, schath, schathe, schaith (Scotland)

Etymology

Variant of scathe.

Noun

scath (countable and uncountable; plural scaths)

1. (UK dialectal) Harm or injury (see scathe).
   • Shakespeare

     Wherein Rome hath done you any scath, / Let him make treble satisfaction.

   • Spenser

     Great mercy, sure, for to enlarge a thrall, / Whose freedom shall thee turn to greatest scath.

   • Lydia H. Sigourney

     Scath and loss / That man can ne'er repair.

   • Mary Howitt, The Desolation of Eyam

     He buried in his heart all sense of scath.

Verb

scath (third-person singular simple present scaths, present participle scathing, simple past and past participle scathed)

1. Archaic form of scathe.
   • Shakespeare

     This trick may chance to scath you.