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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. |
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To expose to a boiling or violent heat over a fire, or in
hot water or other liquor; as, to scald milk or meat. |
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A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by some hot liquid,
or by steam. |
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Affected with the scab; scabby. |
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Scurvy; paltry; as, scald rhymers. |
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Scurf on the head. See Scall. |
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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. |