Definition of "scath"

scath

/skæθ/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural scaths
1. (UK dialectal, archaic) Alternative form of scathe (“harm; damage”)
  Quotations
  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, [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, stanza 18
  Scath and loss / That man can ne'er repair.
  c. 1847, Lydia H. Sigourney, Advertisement of a Lost Day
  He buried in his heart all sense of scath.
  1827, Mary Howitt, The Desolation of Eyam
verb
third-person singular simple present scaths, present participle scathing, simple past and past participle scathed
1. Archaic form of scathe.
  Quotations
  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, [Act I, scene v]