scalled, a. Now rare.
(skɔːld)
Also 4 scallede, scallid, scaled, 5 skallyd, skallid, 5–6 scallyd, 6 skalled.
[f. scall + -ed2.]
= scald a. scalled-head = scald-head.
| 1340 Ayenb. (1866) 224 Þe mezels, þe dyaue, þe doumbe, þe ssoruede, þe scallede. c 1386 Chaucer Prol. 627 With scaled browes blake and piled berd. 1426 Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 14676 And I kan sette (or folk take hed) A Coyffe vp-on a skallyd heed. 1530 Tindale Pract. Prel. C, As the maner of scalled horses is, the one to clawe the other. 1546 T. Phaer Regim. Life, Bk. Childr. S vij, The heades of chyldren are oftentimes vlcered, & scalled. 1655 Fuller Ch. Hist. ii. 97 A Dumb Youth, with a scalled head. 1829 Good's Study Med. (ed. 3) V. 637 Ecpyesis Porrigo galeata. Scalled head. 1871 G. H. Napheys Prev. & Cure Dis. iii. iv. 732 Scalled head and other troublesome skin diseases. |
Hence † ˈscalledness, scabbiness.
| 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. iii. (Bodl. MS.), Vnneþe suche skalles oþer schorfe is yheeled but somme for oþer skallednes oþer pillednes leue and beþ isene alwaye þerafter. 1530 Palsgr. 265/2 Scallydnesse, roignevseté. |