Definition of scald

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