Found 3 items, similar to Scald.
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: scald
scald
n 1: a burn cause by hot liquid or steam
2: the act of burning with steam or hot water
v 1: subject to harsh criticism;
“The Senator blistered the
administration in his speech on Friday”;
“the professor
scaled the students”;
“your invectives scorched the
community” [syn:
blister,
whip]
2: treat with boiling water;
“scald tomatoes so that they can
be peeled”
3: heat to the boiling point;
“scald the milk”
4: burn with a hot liquid or steam;
“She scalded her hands when
she turned on the faucet and hot water came out”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Scald
Scald
\Scald\, n.
A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by some hot liquid,
or by steam.
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Scald
\Scald\, a. [For scalled. See
Scall.]
1. Affected with the scab; scabby. --Shak.
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2. Scurvy; paltry; as, scald rhymers. [Obs.] --Shak.
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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.
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Scald
\Scald\, n.
Scurf on the head. See
Scall. --Spenser.
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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.]
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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.
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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.
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Mine own tears
Do scald like molten lead. --Shak.
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Here the blue flames of scalding brimstone fall.
--Cowley.
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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.
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