• Skaith

    Origin

    Borrowed from .

    Full definition of skaith

    Noun

    skaith

    (plural skaiths)
    1. (Scotland, law, obsolete) Alternative form of en: damage.
      • 1878, William Charles Smith, "" in the , , :... the Commissioners of Burghs... meet yearly at Inverkeithing “to treat of the welfare of merchandize, the good rule and statutes for the common profit of burghs, and to provide for remeid upon the skaith and injuries sustained within the burghs.”
      • 1904, William Edmonstoune Aytoun, The Bon Gaultier Ballads Chapter , There never yet was Englishman
        That came to skaith by me.

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