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scald

 

  6  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Scald  \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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Scald  \Scald\,  n. 
  A  burn,  or  injury  to  the  skin  or  flesh,  by  some  hot  liquid, 
  or  by  steam. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Scald  \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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Scald  \Scald\,  n. 
  Scurf  on  the  head.  See  {Scall}.  --Spenser. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Scald  \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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  scald 
  n  1:  a  burn  cause  by  hot  liquid  or  steam 
  2:  the  act  of  burning  with  steam  or  hot  water 
  v  :  burn  with  a  hot  liquid




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