Definitions for "Scald"
Keywords:  boil, blanch, loosen, milk, bubbles
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.
To expose to a boiling or violent heat over a fire, or in hot water or other liquor; as, to scald milk or meat.
A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by some hot liquid, or by steam.
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.
Keywords:  paltry, rhymers, scurvy
Scurvy; paltry; as, scald rhymers.
Keywords:  scabby, scab
Affected with the scab; scabby.
subject to harsh criticism; "The Senator blistered the administration in his speech on Friday"; "the professor scaled the students"; "your invectives scorched the community"
Keywords:  scall, scurf, head, see
Scurf on the head. See Scall.
Keywords:  turf, salty, saline, vegetation, rise
Turf damage occurring under conditions of excessive water, high temperatures and intense light.
A salty area of land with little or no vegetation caused by a rise in saline water table.
A necrotic condition in which tissue is usually bleached and has the appearance of having been exposed to high temperatures. ()