Scald
Scald , transitive verb
[Old French eschalder, eschauder, escauder, French échauder, from Latin excaldare; ex + caldus, calidus, warm, hot. See Ex, and Caldron.]
1.
To burn with hot liquid or steam; to pain or injure by contact with, or immersion in, any hot fluid; as, to scald the hand.
Mine own tears
Do scald like molten lead.
Here the blue flames of scalding brimstone fall.
2.
To expose to a boiling or violent heat over a fire, or in hot water or other liquor; as, to scald milk or meat.
Scald , noun
A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by some hot liquid, or by steam.
Scald , adjective
[For scalled. See Scall.]
1.
Affected with the scab; scabby. — Shakespeare
2.
Scurvy; paltry; as, scald rhymers. [Obsolete] — Shakespeare
Collocations (2)
Scald crow (Zoology) , the hooded crow. [Ireland]
Scald head (Medicine) , a name popularly given to several diseases of the scalp characterized by pustules (the dried discharge of which forms scales) and by falling out of the hair.
Scald , noun
Scurf on the head. See Scall. — Spenser
Scald (skald or skald; 277) , noun
[Icelandic skāld.]
One of the ancient Scandinavian poets and historiographers; a reciter and singer of heroic poems, eulogies, etc., among the Norsemen; more rarely, a bard of any of the ancient Teutonic tribes.
A war song such as was of yore chanted on the field of battle by the scalds of the yet heathen Saxons.