Hypertext Webster Gateway: "scald"
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) 1.7 (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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