scall
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