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Meaning Of Scald
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.