单词 | scald head |
释义 | scald headn. 1. A person's head diseased with ringworm or some similar affection. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [noun] > ring-worm or favus > head scald head1546 scald-pate1611 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. iii. sig. Giiv A scalde head is soone broken. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 53 Meane of stature he was, & euill proportioned: hauing euer a scald head. a1756 E. Haywood New Present (1771) 247 An infallible Remedy for a Scald Head. 1826 T. Hood Irish Schoolmaster xix, in Whims & Oddities 128 The Pedagogue, with sudden drub, Smites his scald-head, that is already sore. 1882 Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (new ed.) Scaud-head, Scaut-head, a head disfigured with patches of scrofula. 2. A popular term for tinea or other similar scalp affections. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [noun] > ring-worm or favus achorOE scalled-head1340 motha1398 tinea1398 serpigoc1400 ringworma1425 scald1561 tetterworm1622 surpeguea1632 serpentine1639 scald head1673 favus1706 honeycomb scall1817 dhobie itch1890 trichophytosis1890 scaly ringworm1898 whitehead1911 athlete's foot1928 1673 Gentlewomans Compan. 179 For a Scald-head. Take a Candle, and let it drop upon it as hot as you can, in so doing it will scale off. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique (at cited word) There are several sorts of Scald Heads, some resemble the Grains of Figs..; others are small bits of Flesh..and others are like Farinous Tetters. a1836 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VII. 791/1 Porrigo is a generic term for an eruption of psydracious pustules, usually termed scald-head. 1871 G. H. Napheys Prevention & Cure Dis. iii. xiii. 1077 One of the forms of ‘scald head’. Derivatives scald-headed adj. having a ‘scald head’; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [adjective] > ringworm or favus scald-pated1611 serpedinous1616 serpiginous1676 scald-headed1802 favic1892 1802 C. Wilmot Irish Peer on Continent (1920) 102 Grim scaldheaded Mountains. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. iii. vi. 130 Is Royalty grown a mere wooden Scarecrow; whereon thou, pert scaldheaded crow, mayest alight at pleasure, and peck? 1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics I. iii. iv. 103 Every humpbacked, one-eyed, scald~headed passenger had to pay a penny for each infirmity. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1546 |
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