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▪ I. scarth, n.1|skɑːθ|
Also 4–5 skarth.
[a. ON. skarð neut., notch, cleft, mountain pass (MSw. skardh neut., notch, diminution, ruin, skardher masc., broken piece) = OE. sceard shard, sherd.]
†1. A fragment, sherd. Obs.
a1340Hampole Psalter xxi. 15 My vertu..is wex vile as a pot scarth. 13..Childh. Jesus 340 in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr. LXXIV. 331 His pechere he brake..And Jhesu gadirde þe skarthes. c1460Towneley Myst. xii. 160 The mylk pycher was layde, The skarthis was the tokyn.
fig.1482Caxton Trevisa's Higden iii. xviii. 132 b, Both the wyues..chidden him alto scarthes by one assente.
2. A cliff, a bare rock. dial.
1863Baring-Gould Iceland iii. 45 To our right was a bold scarth of dark rock thronged with ravens. 1869Lonsdale Gloss., Scar, Scarth, a line of rock bare of vegetation.
▪ II. † scarth, n.2 Obs.
[Altered form of scrat n.]
An abortion, monster; a hermaphrodite.
1508Dunbar Flyting 58 Revin, raggit ruke, and full of rebaldrie, Scarth fra scorpione, scaldit in scurrilitie. 1508― Tua Mariit Wemen 92 Ane skabbit skarth, ane scorpioun. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 145 Of the skartht [c 1603 scratche (MS. B.), c 1598scarcht (MS. I.)] yat was born of baith the kyndis maile and female. |