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SCALD, v.t. [L. caleo, caida, calidus. I suppose the primary sense of caleo is to contract, to draw, to make hard.]
SCALD, n. [supra.] A burn, or injury to the skin and flesh by hot liquor.
SCALD, n. Scab; scurf on the head.
SCALD, a. Scurvy; paltry; poor; as scald rhymers.
SCALD, n.
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.
Mine own tears Here the blue flames of scalding brimstone fall. Cowley. To expose to a boiling or violent heat over
a fire, or in hot water or other liquor; as, to scald milk or
meat.
A burn, or injury to the
skin or flesh, by some hot liquid, or by steam.
Affected with the scab;
scabby.
Shak. Scurvy; paltry; as, scald
rhymers.
[Obs.] Shak.
Scald crow (Zoöl.), 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. Scurf on the head. See
Scall.
Spenser. 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.]
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. | ||||||||