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A scurf or scabby disease, especially of the scalp. It is a dry scall, even a leprosy upon the head. Lev. xiii. 30.

Scabby; scurfy; scall. [Obs.] "With scalled brows black." Chaucer. Scalled head. (Med.) See Scald head, under Scald, a.

A kind of small onion (Allium Ascalonicum), native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot.

ts of circles joined at their extremities, forming a border like the edge or surface of a scallop shell.

Furnished with a scallop; made or done with or in a scallop.

One who fishes for scallops.

Fishing for scallops.

See Escalop.

See Escaloped.

To call by a wrong name; to name improperly.

See Muskellunge.

A rascal; a good-for-nothing fellow. [Colloq.] Howitt.

A low, mean wretch [Written also rascalion.]

; worthless; -- often in humorous disparagement, without implication of dishonesty. Our rascally porter is fallen fast asleep. Swift.

Having the margin cut into rounded teeth notches, or scallops.

The state of being minutely scalloped.

A scalloped or "pattypan" variety of summer squash.

One who duns; a dunner. To be pulled by the sleeve by some rascally dun. Arbuthnot.

in English usage, a side dish, served with a joint, or between the courses, as a cutlet, scalloped oysters, etc.

adv. Poems which have an epical character. Brande & C. His [Wordsworth's] longer poems (miscalled epical). Lowell.