scald means A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by hot liquid or steam. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 85 out of 100.
scald is pronounced /skɔld/.
Etymology
Alteration of scall or scalled. Compare cognate Old Swedish skold, skoldh, skol, Swedish skål, skoll, skolla, Danish skold, skolde, Norwegian skåld (“rash”).
noun
- A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by hot liquid or steam.
- A paste, made by mixing flour with hot or boiling water (causing starches in it to gelatinize and hold more water) and allowing that mixture to sit and cool, which is added to bread dough to produce a softer bread that takes longer to stale.“[…] stir in the flour by hand, and afterwards add the boiling water, and stir vigorously as already described for Virgin barm. The scald should not be so stiff as for Virgin, and should taste sweet when newly made.”
- Poor or bad land.
- Scaliness; a scabby skin disease.“Her craftie head was altogether bald, / And as in hate of honorable eld, / Was ouergrowne with scurfe and filthy scald[…].”
verb
- To burn with hot liquid.“to scald the hand”
- To heat almost to boiling.“Scald the milk until little bubbles form.”
adj
- Affected with the scab; scabby.“and let us knog our / prains together to be revenge on this same scald, scurvy, / cogging companion,”
- Paltry; worthless.“Would it not grieue a King to be so abuſ’d?
And haue a thouſand horſmen tane away?
And which is worſe to haue his Diadem
Sought for by ſuch ſcalde knaues as loue him not?”