·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.