scaith

plural scaiths

1. ScotlandcountableuncountableInjury; wound.

   We have had loss— ye have taken scaith.

   2011, Agnes Strickland, Elizabeth Strickland, Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses, →ISBN

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   Watty's a kind-hearted creature ; and ye may be sure that neither scaith nor scant will be alloo't to come near the wean while it stays in this house.

   1936, John Galt, William Roughead, The entail: or, The lairds of Grippy, page 314

   Beg him to help her in her just suit at the Queen of England's hands, and that she may have some redress of her scaiths to the comfort of her poor husband and bairns.

   2001, Joan Druett, She Captains: Heroines and Hellions of the Sea, →ISBN, page 48

   And his sister said unto him, “Thou shouldst not blame the boat, dear brother, for ill was the deed thou hast done in killing the father of Lugh Lamhfada; and whatever scaith may come to thee from it, thou dost deserveth it.”

   2008, Steven L. Akins, The Lebor Feasa Runda: A Druidic Grammar of Celtic Lore and Magic, →ISBN

present singular third person scaiths · participle present scaithing · participle past scaithed · past scaithed

1. ScotlandTo injure; to wound.

   Ye led him on tae tell ye how the greencoat scaithed him.

   1940, Neil Harmon Swanson, The Silent Drum, page 159

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   She has scaithed us most wickedly, an' I dinna think she should hev forgiveness.

   1896, John Horne, A canny countryside, page 119

   He was a living argument on your side — a mind scaithed and a heart hardened by the curse of slavery.

   1974, Clare Taylor, British and American abolitionists

   Synonyms: damage, harm, abuse, annoy, bewound, damage, damnify, dere