Scald

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adj Affected with the scab; scabby.

II. Scald ·adj Scurvy; paltry; as, scald rhymers.

III. Scald ·noun Scurf on the head. ·see Scall.

IV. Scald ·noun A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by some hot liquid, or by steam.

V. Scald ·vt To expose to a boiling or violent heat over a fire, or in hot water or other liquor; as, to scald milk or meat.

VI. Scald ·vt 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.

VII. Scald ·noun 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.

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