n. [ Icel. skaði; akin to Dan. skade, Sw. skada, AS. sceaða, scaða, foe, injurer, OS. skaðo, D. schade, harm, injury, OHG. scade, G. schade, schaden; cf. Gr. 'askhqh`s unharmed. Cf. Scathe, v. ] Harm; damage; injury; hurt; waste; misfortune. [ Written also scathe. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

But she was somedeal deaf, and that was skathe. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Great mercy, sure, for to enlarge a thrall,
Whose freedom shall thee turn to greatest scath. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wherein Rome hath done you any scath,
Let him make treble satisfaction. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Scathed p. pr. & vb. n. Scathing ] [ Icel. skaða; akin to AS. sceaðan, sceððan, Dan. skade, Sw. skada, D. & G. schaden, OHG. scadōn, Goth. skaþjan. ] To do harm to; to injure; to damage; to waste; to destroy. [ 1913 Webster ]

As when heaven's fire
Hath scathed the forest oaks or mountain pines. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Strokes of calamity that scathe and scorch the soul. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Harmful; doing damage; pernicious. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Scath"ful*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

a. Unharmed. R. L. Stevenson. [ 1913 Webster ]

He, too, . . . is to be dismissed scathless. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Injurious; scathful. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]