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Definition of 'scald'English
Etymology 1
From (etyl),
Verb
( en-verb)
To burn with hot liquid.
- to scald the hand
* 1605 , , IV. vii. 48:
- Mine own tears / Do scald like molten lead.
* Cowley
- Here the blue flames of scalding brimstone fall.
(cooking) To heat almost to boiling.
- Scald the milk until little bubbles form.
Noun
( en-noun)
A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by hot liquid or steam.
Etymology 2
Alteration of (scall).
Noun
( -)
(obsolete) Scaliness; a scabby skin disease.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , I.vii:
- Her craftie head was altogether bald, / And as in hate of honorable eld, / Was ouergrowne with scurfe and filthy scald .
*, II.12:
- Some heale Horses, some cure men, some the plague, some the scald .
Adjective
( en-adj)
(obsolete) Affected with the scab; scabby.
* 1599 , , III. i. 110:
- and let us knog our / prains together to be revenge on this same scald , scurvy, / cogging companion,
(obsolete) Paltry; worthless.
* 1598 , , V. ii. 215:
- Saucy lictors / Will catch at us like strumpets, and scald rhymers / Ballad us out o' tune.
Etymology 3
Noun
( en-noun)
- A war song such as was of yore chanted on the field of battle by the scalds of the yet heathen Saxons. — Sir Walter Scott.
( Webster 1913)
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