scald
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
scald (scalds, present participle scalding; 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.
- Here the blue flames of scalding brimstone fall.
- (cooking) To heat almost to boiling.
- Scald the milk until little bubbles form.
- French: ébouillanter
- German: verbrühen
- Portuguese: escaldar
- Russian: обжига́ть
- Spanish: quemar, escaldar
scald (plural scalds)
- A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by hot liquid or steam.
- German: Verbrühung
- Spanish: quemadura, escaldadura
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, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:
- Some heale Horses, some cure men, some the plague, some the scald {{transterm
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.vii:
scald
Synonyms- (scabby) roynish, scurvy; see also Thesaurus:scabby
- (paltry) contemptible, miserable, trashy; see also Thesaurus:despicable
scald (plural scalds)
- Alternative form of skald
- ?, Walter Scott, Saxon War Song
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