scald

• (US) IPA^(key): /skɔld/; (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /skɑld/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /skɔːld/
• Rhymes: -ɔːld

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]

scald (third-person singular simple present scalds, present participle scalding, simple past and past participle scalded)

1. 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.

2. (cooking) To heat almost to boiling.

   Scald the milk until little bubbles form.

scald (plural scalds)

1. A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by hot liquid or steam.

Alteration of scall.

scald (uncountable)

1. (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, chapter 12, in 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 [transl. teigne], some the cough, some one kinde of scab, and some another […].

scald (comparative more scald, superlative most scald)

1. (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,

2. (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.

scald (plural scalds)

1. Alternative form of skald
   • Sir Walter Scott

     a war song such as was of yore chanted on the field of battle by the scalds of the yet heathen Saxons

• DACLs, S.D. Cal., clads

• IPA^(key): [skald]

scald

1. first-person singular present indicative of scălda
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of scălda