scath

Meanings

nounscath (countable and uncountable, plural scaths)

plural scaths · alternative Scotland scathe · alternative Scotland scaith · alternative Scotland schath · alternative Scotland schathe · alternative Scotland schaith

UKalternativearchaiccountabledialectaluncountableAlternative form of scathe (“harm; damage”).
He buried in his heart all sense of scath.
1827, Mary Howitt, The Desolation of Eyam
3 more examples
Wherein Rome hath done you any scath, Let him make treble satisfaction.
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]
Great mercy, sure, for to enlarge a thrall, / Whose freedome shall thee turne to greatest scath.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 18
Scath and loss / That man can ne'er repair.
c. 1847, Lydia H. Sigourney, Advertisement of a Lost Day

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

present singular third person scaths · participle present scathing · participle past scathed · past scathed · alternative Scotland scathe · alternative Scotland scaith · alternative Scotland schath · alternative Scotland schathe · alternative Scotland schaith

archaicArchaic form of scathe.
This trick may chance to scath you.
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]