Definitions for: Scald

[n] the act of burning with steam or hot water
[n] a burn cause by hot liquid or steam
[v] burn with a hot liquid

Webster (1913) Definition: Scald, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scalded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Scalding.] [OF. eschalder, eschauder, escauder, F.
['e]chauder, fr. L. 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. --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, n.
A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by some hot liquid,
or by steam.

Scald, a. [For scalled. See Scall.]
1. Affected with the scab; scabby. --Shak.

2. Scurvy; paltry; as, scald rhymers. [Obs.] --Shak.

Scald crow (Zo["o]l.), 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, n.
Scurf on the head. See Scall. --Spenser.

Scald (sk[a^]ld or sk[add]ld; 277), n. [Icel. sk[=a]ld.]
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. [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.

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