scabbed, a. Now rare.
(skæbd, ˈskæbɪd)
[f. scab n. + -ed2. Cf. shabbed.]
1. Having the scab or a similar skin-disease; covered with scab or scabs; = scabby 1. a. Of human beings; (scabbed head, ringworm of the scalp, tinea capitis).
| 1338 R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 282 Þou scabbed Scotte, þi nek þi hotte, þe deuelle it breke. c 1340 Nominale (Skeat) 206 W. hath the wriste scabbut. c 1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 186, & þus þou schalt do manie daies til þe skyn be more scabbid þan it was. 1483 Caxton Cato f iv, A wonderful and foule woman ryghte olde that was scabbed. 1484 ― Fables of Alfonce vii, The porter..sawe his scabbed hede. 1542 Rec. Elgin (New Spald. Cl. 1903) I. 67 Calling of the said James scabbit lyþer carlle. 1621 Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. ii. vi, Boyes in Germany are so often scabbed, because they vse exercise presently after meates. 1700 T. Brown tr. Fresny's Amusem. iv. Wks. 1709 III. i. 41 Some of them having Scab'd or Pimpled Faces, wear a thousand Patches to hide them. 1772 W. Buchan Dom. Med. (ed. 2) 679 The most obstinate of all the eruptions incident to children are, the tinea capitis, or scabbed head, and chilblains. |
b. Of animals.
| c 1300 Havelok 2505 Þei garte bringe þe mere sone, Skabbed, and ful iuele o bone. 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. xxvii. (1495) 788 The scabbyd hounde is drownyd at the laste wyth a rope..bounde abowte his necke. c 1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode ii. civ. (1869) 114 For riht as a scabbed beste hateth hors comb,..riht so hate j techinge. 1534 Fitzherb. Husb. §42 If any sheepe be scabbed, the shepeherde maye perceyue it by the bytynge, rubbyng or scratchynge with his horne. 1679 Lond. Gaz. No. 1403/4 One gray Nag..having scabbed heels and malenders. 1709 Steele Tatler No. 31 ¶3 This great Hero drooped like a scabbed Sheep. 1753 Chambers' Cycl. Supp., Scabbed heels or frush, in the manege, is an eating putrefaction upon a horse's frush. |
| absol. 1484 Caxton Fables of Alfonce vii, Of euery lame, scabbed, & of alle suche..he tooke a peny. |
c. Of plants.
| 1693 W. Bowles in Dryden's Juvenal v. (1697) 107 To you such scabb'd harsh Fruit is giv'n, as raw Young Souldiers at their Exercisings gnaw. a 1735 Earl of Haddington Forest-Trees (1756) 10 In bad soil, they [sc. elms] are nasty, scabbed, and hide-bound things. |
d. Proverbially and allusively: see
quots.| c 1450 in Aungier Syon (1840) 262 Leste one skabbed schepe infecte al the flokke. 1533 More Debell. Salem Wks. 938/2 The..putting the scabbed heretikes out of the clene flocke. 1562 J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 153 A scabde horse is good enough, for a scalde squyre. 1596 Nashe Saffron Walden Wks. (Grosart) III. 71 O scabbed scald squire (Scythian Gabriell) as thou art. 1610 A. Cooke Pope Joan 5 Baronius brands him, not meerely for a skabd sheepe, but for an heretical skabby beast. 1651 G. Herbert Jacula Prudentum 1113 A scabbed horse cannot abide the comb. 1798 W. Hutton Fam. Hutton in Life (1816) 367 With all these qualifications she was tinctured with a most unaccountable species of paltry pride. Thus one scabbed sheep spoils the flock. |
† e. transf. and
fig. Obs.| 1630 Davenant Cruel Brother v. K 2 b, Hide me swelling Hills! rough, and scabbed Rocks. 1674 Marvell Reh. Transp. ii. 72 In so rough and scabbed a Latine, that a man must have long nails..to distinguish betwixt the Skin and the Disease, the Faults and the Grammar. |
f. Iron-founding. Blistered with ‘scabs’.
| 1881 C. Wylie Iron Founding 14 The casting is liable to be faulty, or ‘scabbed’. |
2. As a term of contempt: ‘Scurvy’, mean, contemptible.
Obs.| 1579 J. Northbrooke Dicing 64 b, This scabbed and scuruie company of Dauncers. 1597 G. Harvey Trimming of Nashe Wks. (Grosart) III. 25 Thou mayest well praye for the duall number, thou scabbed, scalde, lame, halting adiectiue. 1786 Har'st Rig cxxx, For our sma' wage, oh, wha wad bide—For scabbit aughtpence, woe betide That we should shear? |
Hence
† ˈscabbedly adv., basely, meanly (with allusion to the scab in sheep).
| a 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. VIII (1550) 187 b, The great wether [sc. Wolsey] which is of late fallen..so craftely, so scabedly, ye & so untruly juggeled with the kyng. |