| Scald 1. (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. 2. (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. 3. (n.) A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by some hot liquid, or by steam. 4. (a.) Affected with the scab; scabby. 5. (a.) Scurvy; paltry; as, scald rhymers. 6. (n.) Scurf on the head. See Scall. 7. (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. Thesaurus Entries abrade, abrasion, bake, bark, be in heat, blaze, blemish, bloody, bloom, boil, brand, break, broil, burn, chafe, check, chip, choke, claw, combust, concussion, cook, crack, crackle, craze, cut, flame, flame up, flare, flare up, flash burn, flicker, flush, fracture, fray, frazzle, fret, fry, gall, gash, gasp, glow, hurt, incandesce, incise, incision, injure, injury, lacerate, laceration, lesion, maim, make mincemeat of, mat burn, maul, mortal wound, mutilate, mutilation, pant, parch, pierce, puncture, radiate heat, rend, rent, rip, roast, run, rupture, savage, scorch, scotch, scrape, scratch, scuff, sear, second-degree burn, seethe, shimmer with heat, simmer, singe, skin, slash, slit, smolder, smother, sore, spark, sprain, stab, stab wound, steam, stew, stick, stifle, strain, suffocate, sunburn, sunscald, sweat, swelter, tear, third-degree burn, toast, trauma, traumatize, windburn, wound, wounds immedicable, wrench |