Scolding - Law Dictionary Search Results
Frab
To scold to nag
Rag
To scold or rail at to rate to tease to torment to banter
Chidester
A female scold
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Castigatory
Castigatory, a certain engine of correction, otherwise called the tre-bucket, tumbrel tymborella, cucking-stool, scolding-stool, ducking-stool, goginstole, and cokestole, corrupted from choaking-stool. It was a punishment provided for scolding women, wherein they were
Medlefe, Medleta, Medletum
Medlefe, Medleta, Medletum [fr. meler, Fr., to meddle], a sudden scolding at and beating one another, Bract, 1, 3, c. xxxv.
Shrewish
having the qualities of a shrew having a scolding disposition froward peevish
Outscold
To exceed in scolding
Scold
public nuisance to the neighbourhood, 4 Steph. Com. see CASTIGATORY. A person who regularly breaks the peace by scolding people, increasing discord, and generally being a public nuisance to neighbourhood, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1348.
Rate
To chide with vehemence to scold to censure violently to berate
Rixatrix communis
Rixatrix communis, a common scold, 4 Steph. Com.
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