Category:Scald

Scald, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scaled; p. pr. & vb. n. Scalding.] Etym: [of. eschalder, eschauder, escauder, f. échauder, fr. L. excaldare; Ex + caldus, calidus, warm, hot. See ex, and calderon.]

1. To burn with hot liquid or steam; to pain or injure by contact With, or imersion in, any hot fluid; as, to scald the hand. Mine own tears do scald like molten lead. Shak. Here the blue flames of scalding brimstone fall. Cowley.

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 Scald, n.

Defn: a burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by some hot liquid, or By steam.

Scald Scald, a. Etym: [for scalled. See scall.]

1. Affected with the scab; scaby. Shak.

2. Scurry; paltry; as, scald rhymers. [obs.] Shak. Scald crow (zoöl.), the hooded crow. [ireland] -- scald head (med.), 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 Scald, n.

Defn: scurf on the head. See scall. Spenser.

Scald Scald ( or ; 277), n. Etym: [icel. skald.]

Defn: one of the ancient scandinavian poets and historiographers; a Reciter and singer of heroic poems, etc., among the norsemen; more Rarely, a bard of any of the ancient teutonic tribes. [written also Skald.] A war song such as was of yore chanted on the field of battle by the Scalds of the yet heathen saxons. Sir w. Scott.