scath

See also: scáth

English

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

Variant of scathe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skæθ/, /skɑːθ/

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• Rhymes: -æθ, -ɑːθ

Noun

scath (countable and uncountable, plural scaths)

1. (UK dialectal, archaic) Alternative form of scathe (“harm; damage”).
   • c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

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

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 18:

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

   • c. 1847, Lydia H. Sigourney, Advertisement of a Lost Day:

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

   • 1827, Mary Howitt, The Desolation of Eyam:

     He buried in his heart all sense of scath.

Derived terms

• scatheless
• scathful

Verb

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

1. Archaic form of scathe.
   • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:

     This trick may chance to scath you.

Anagrams

• Chats, Satch, Stach, caths, chast, chats, tachs