Middle English Dictionary Entry
scalled(e adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | scalled(e adj. Also scald(e, skalede. |
| Etymology | From scal(le n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Afflicted with some skin disease; scabby; (b) of a person, a person's head: suffering from tinea; also, without hair, bald; ?tonsured, shorn; ~ hed; (c) in terms of abuse or contempt: scurvy, wretched, miserable; (d) in sayings; (e) as noun: one who suffers from tinea or some skin disease; (f) in surname.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.627 : As hoot he was and lecherous as a sparwe, With scaled [vrr. skalede, scalled] browes blake and piled berd.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)153b/b : Malum mortuum..cummeþ also of colde and lyinge by a leprous womnan [read: womman] oþer a scalled womman.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)3.242 : I the sauh so megre, pale, and leene..Scabbid, scuruy, scallid, and oncleene On bak and body.
- a1475 Sidrak & B.in JHMAS 23 (Lnsd 793)p.168 : If the man thanne by her lie And gete a child peraventure, That childe shal..Outher be scalled or be missel.
b
- c1465(?1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)64a : Pedelyon..The vertu of him is gode for a skallyd hede.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)398 : Phyllyd, or scallyd: Depilatus, glabellus, [c]apitonsus, glabrosus.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)3/13 : First byhoues gere schafe þe scallede hede.
- a1450 PNoster R.Hermit (Westm-S 3)20/4 : So is cloþing to man as howue to scalled man his sore for to hide.
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)164/9 : Þe porter gatt hald on hys hude, & it went off, & þan his hede was skallid.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)75/18 : Tak hot water and wessche weel þe scalled hed þer-inne, and þan do it schauyn.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)14676 : I kan sette..A Coyffe vp-on a skallyd [F teigneuse] heed.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)108a : Scalled: glaber, glabriosus.
- a1500 Discip.Cler.(Wor F.172)25 : He..pullid of his Cappe, and than his hede appiered scalled [L scabiosus].
- a1500 Hrl.2378 Recipes (Hrl 2378)106/15 : For scallyd hedis: Tak pyk and wex and melt hem to-gedyr and shafe þe hed clene, [etc.].
c
- a1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)1814 : A, Lechery, þou skallyd mare!
- a1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)1906 : Schapyth now ȝoure scheldys schene Ȝene skallyd skoutys for to skerre.
- a1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)2399 : Ȝene qwene..Hath al to-dayschyd my skallyd skulle.
d
- c1450 Dc.Prov.(Dc 52)p.48 : A scalde mannys hede is lefe to breke.
- a1500 Dayly in Englond (BodPoet e.1)p.273 : A scald hed maye be coueryd and not sene.
- a1500 Hrl.3362 Prov.(Hrl 3362)309 : A scallyd mannys hed ys good to be broke.
e
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)224/6 : Ine zuych stat byeþ ofte beyete þe crokede, þe blynde..þe scallede.
- a1500 Discip.Cler.(Wor F.172)24 : A versifiour..asked suche a thyng as for to be a porter at oon of the yates of the Citee..and to have of every courbed man a peny..of every scald [L impetiginoso] a peny.
f
- (1262-3) Assize R.Lan.in LCRS 47122 : John le Scalled.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense (e)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. scald.