scald
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /skɔld/; (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /skɑld/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /skɔːld/
- Rhymes: -ɔːld
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French escalder (Old French eschalder, French échauder), from Late Latin excaldare (“bathe in hot water”), from Latin ex- (“off, out”) + calidus (“hot”) [1]
Verb
scald (third-person singular simple present scalds, present participle scalding, simple past and past participle scalded)
- To burn with hot liquid.
- to scald the hand
- 1605, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Lear, IV. vii. 48:
- Mine own tears / Do scald like molten lead.
- Cowley
- Here the blue flames of scalding brimstone fall.
- (cooking) To heat almost to boiling.
- Scald the milk until little bubbles form.
Translations
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Noun
scald (plural scalds)
- A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by hot liquid or steam.
Translations
Etymology 2
Alteration of scall.
Noun
scald (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Scaliness; a scabby skin disease.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.vii:
- Her craftie head was altogether bald, / And as in hate of honorable eld, / Was ouergrowne with scurfe and filthy scald […].
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: […] Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:, II.12:
- Some heale Horses, some cure men, some the plague, some the scald [transl. teigne], some the cough, some one kinde of scab, and some another […].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.vii:
Adjective
scald (comparative more scald, superlative most scald)
- (obsolete) Affected with the scab; scabby.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, III. i. 110:
- and let us knog our / prains together to be revenge on this same scald, scurvy, / cogging companion,
- 1599, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, III. i. 110:
- (obsolete) Paltry; worthless.
- 1598, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra, V. ii. 215:
- Saucy lictors / Will catch at us like strumpets, and scald rhymers / Ballad us out o' tune.
- 1598, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra, V. ii. 215:
Etymology 3
Noun
scald (plural scalds)
- Alternative form of skald
- A war song such as was of yore chanted on the field of battle by the scalds of the yet heathen Saxons. — Sir Walter Scott.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for scald in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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Anagrams
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [skald]
Verb
scald