Scald
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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
n.
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A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by some hot liquid, or by steam.
a.
- Affected with the scab; scabby.
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Scurvy; paltry;
as, .scald rhymers
Scald crow (Zoöl.),
the hooded crow.
Scald head (Med.),
a name popularly given to several diseases of the scalp characterized by pustules (the dried discharge of which forms scales) and by falling out of the hair.
n.
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Scurf on the head. See
Scall .
n.
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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.