Scall (Hastings' Dictionary)

See Medictne, vol. iii. p. 329^ Scall is the AV and RV translation of pnj (Lv 13. 14") : Wye. has ' wem,' Tind. ' burning,' Cov. ' skyrfe,' Gen. ' blacke spot,' Don. ' spotte,' Bish. ' fret.' The Eng. word is of Scand. origin, and signified primarily baldness (Icel. skalli, a bald head), but in Middle Eng. (also spelt scalde) it is a scab or eruption, generally of the head. Cf. Chaucer, Scrivener, 3 — ' Under thy longe lockes thou maist have the scalle' ; Spenser, FQ I. viii.

47 — Her crattie head was altogether bald. And, as in hate of honourable eld, Wae over growne with scnrfe and filthy ecald) and Tindale, Lv 21* 'Broken handed, or croke backed, or perleved, or gogeleyed, or maunge, or ■kaulde' ; Pt 28-'' ' And the Lorde will smyte the with the botches of Egipte and the emorodes, scalle, and maungynesse.' J. HASTINGS.