scall
English
editEtymology
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
editNoun
editscall (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
editAdjective
editscall
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: […], volume V (R–S), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] 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
editIrish
editVerb
editscall (present analytic scallann, future analytic scallfaidh, verbal noun scalladh, past participle scallta)
Conjugation
editconjugation of scall (first conjugation – A)
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form