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scaldhead

noun

Etymology

From scald + head.

  1. inherited from *káput✻ — “head”
  2. inherited from *haubudą✻ — “head”
  3. inherited from *haubud✻
  4. inherited from hēafod — “head; top; leader; origin”
  5. inherited from efd
  6. compounded as scaldhead — “scald + head”

Definitions

  1. Any of several scalp diseases characterised by pustules (the dried discharge of which…

    Any of several scalp diseases characterised by pustules (the dried discharge of which forms scales) and by falling out of the hair.

The neighborhood

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