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Definition of Scolds
1. scold [v] - See also: scold
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scolds
Literary usage of Scolds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1916)
"... New York City, December, 1819. HON. PA JAY,Z Recorder. December 7. These two
women had been indicted by the Grand Jury as common scolds. ..."
2. Observations on Popular Antiquities Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our by John Brand, Henry Ellis (1900)
"An order of the Corporation of Shrewsbury, of the date of 1669, directs that "a
Ducking-Stool be erected for the punishment of all scolds. ..."
3. The Birds of New Jersey by Charles Anthony Shriner (1896)
"He scolds whenever any danger threatens or he is disturbed and when nothing
troubles him he scolds himself. The food of the bird consists of insects. ..."
4. Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century by Raymond Macdonald Alden (1911)
"... of a character which I wonder I have so long omitted, and that is an outrageous
species of the fair sex which^ is, distinguished by the term scolds. ..."
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