meaning of scald
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.
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.
3. A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by some hot liquid, or by steam.
4. Affected with the scab; scabby.
5. Scurvy; paltry; as, scald rhymers.
6. Scurf on the head. See Scall.
7. 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.
8. the act of burning with steam or hot water
Related Words
scald | scalded | scalded milk | scalder | scaldfish | scaldic | scalding |
