Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Scath

Scath (skath; 277) , noun

[Icelandic skaei; akin to Danish skade, Swedish skada, Anglo-Saxon sceaea, scaea, foe, injurer, Old Saxon skaeo, Dutch schade, harm, injury, Old High German scade, German schade, schaden; compare Greek 'askhqh`s unharmed. Compare Scathe, v.]

Harm; damage; injury; hurt; waste; misfortune.
But she was somedeal deaf, and that was skathe. — Chaucer
Great mercy, sure, for to enlarge a thrall, Whose freedom shall thee turn to greatest scath. — Spenser
Wherein Rome hath done you any scath, Let him make treble satisfaction. — Shakespeare