scald Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a burn cause by hot liquid or steam
  2. noun the act of burning with steam or hot water
  3. verb subject to harsh criticism
    blister; whip.
    • The Senator blistered the administration in his speech on Friday
    • the professor scaled the students
    • your invectives scorched the community
  4. verb treat with boiling water
    • scald tomatoes so that they can be peeled
  5. verb heat to the boiling point
    • scald the milk
  6. verb burn with a hot liquid or steam
    • She scalded her hands when she turned on the faucet and hot water came out

WordNet

Scald transitive verb
Etymology
OF. eschalder, eschauder, escauder, F. échauder, fr. L. excaldare; ex + caldus, calidus, warm, hot. See Ex, and Calderon.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Scaled; present participle & verbal noun Scalding
Definitions
  1. 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.
    Mine own tears Do scald like molten lead. Shak.
    Here the blue flames of scalding brimstone fall. Cowley.
  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.
Scald noun
Definitions
  1. A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by some hot liquid, or by steam.
Scald adjective
Etymology
For scalled. See Scall.
Definitions
  1. Affected with the scab; scaby. Shak.
  2. Scurry; paltry; as, scald rhymers. Obs. Shak.
Scald noun
Definitions
  1. Scurf on the head. See Scall. Spenser.
Scald noun
Etymology
Icel. skald.
Definitions
  1. 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. 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.

Webster 1913