Scald

(skawld), v. t. [imp. & p. p. SCALDED; p. pr. & vb. n. SCALDING.] [O. Fr. eschalder, eschauder, N. Fr. échauder, Sp. & Pg. escaldar, It. scaldare, Lat. excaldare, from ex and caldus, calidus, warm, hot.] 1. To burn with hot liquid; to pain or injure by contact with, or immersion in, any fluid of high temperature; as, to scald the hand or foot. 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 water or other liquor; as, to scald meat or milk.

n. [See supra.] A burn, or injury to the skin and flesh by some hot liquid, or by steam.

n. [Originally scall, q. v.] Scurf on the head; scab. Spenser.

(Synop., § 130), n. [Icel. skāld, Sw. skald, Dan. skiald, Ger. skalde, allied to Sw. skalla, N. H. Ger. schallen, O. H. Ger. scellan, to sound.] One of the ancient Scandinavian poets and historiographers; a reciter and singer of heroic poems, eulogies, &c., among the Norsemen; more rarely, and less properly, a bard among any of the ancient Teutonic nations or 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. W. Scott.