Crossword-Solution: SCALL 5 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

ADAM Scrivener, if ever it thee befall Boece or Troilus for to write anew, Under thy long locks thou may’st have the scall* *scab But *after my making* thou write more true! *according to my So oft a day I must thy work renew, composing* It to correct, and eke to rub and scrape; And all is through thy negligence and rape.* *haste CHAUCER’S PROPHECY.

Kind Conscience then heard, and came out of the planets, And sent forth his forriours, Fevers and Fluxes, Coughës and Cardiacles, Crampës and Toothaches, Rheumës, and Radgondes, and raynous Scallës, Boilës, and Botches, and burning Agues, Phreneses and foul Evil, foragers of Kind! There was 'Harow! and Help! here cometh Kind, With Death that is dreadful, to undo us all!' The lord that liveth after lust then aloud cried.

Again, "for curing scalled (from _scall_, a shell) head in children, a small handful of the fresh plant, or half a drachm of the dried herb, boiled for two hours in milk, is to be taken each night and morning; also a bread poultice made with this decoction should be applied to the affected part.

SCALL, skawl, _n._ (_B._) a scab: scabbiness: in mining, loose ground.--_adj._ mean.--_adjs._ SCALLED, SCALD, scabby: mean.