v. t. | 1. | 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. | 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. | 1. | A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by some hot liquid, or by steam. |
a. | 1. | Affected with the scab; scabby. |
| 2. | Scurvy; paltry; as, scald rhymers. |
n. | 1. | Scurf on the head. See Scall. |
| 1. | 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. |