Noun
the act of burning with steam or hot water

Noun
a burn cause by hot liquid or steam

Verb
burn with a hot liquid or steam; "She scalded her hands when she turned on the faucet and hot water came out"

Verb
heat to the boiling point; "scald the milk"

Verb
treat with boiling water; "scald tomatoes so that they can be peeled"

Verb
subject to harsh criticism; "The Senator blistered the administration in his speech on Friday"; "the professor scaled the students"; "your invectives scorched the community"

v. t.
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.

v. t.
To expose to a boiling or violent heat over a fire, or in hot water or other liquor; as, to scald milk or meat.

n.
A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by some hot liquid, or by steam.

a.
Affected with the scab; scabby.

a.
Scurvy; paltry; as, scald rhymers.

n.
Scurf on the head. See Scall.

n.
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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Mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.

Here the blue flames of scalding brimstone fall.

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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.

To burn with hot liquid or steam; to pain or injure by contact with, or imersion in, any hot fluid; as, to scald the hand.

A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by some hot liquid, or by steam.

Affected with the scab; scaby.

Scurf on the head. See Scall.

One of the ancient Scandinavian poets and historiographers; a reciter and singer of heroic poems, etc., among the Norsemen; more rarely, a bard of any of the ancient Teutonic tribes.