Scald
[skɔːld] or [skɔld]
Definition
(noun.) the act of burning with steam or hot water.
(noun.) a burn cause by hot liquid or steam.
(verb.) burn with a hot liquid or steam; 'She scalded her hands when she turned on the faucet and hot water came out'.
(verb.) heat to the boiling point; 'scald the milk'.
(verb.) treat with boiling water; 'scald tomatoes so that they can be peeled'.
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Definition
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.) A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by some hot liquid, or by steam.
(a.) Affected with the scab; scabby.
(a.) Scurvy; paltry; as, scald rhymers.
(n.) Scurf on the head. See Scall.
(n.) 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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Burn (with a hot liquid).
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Definition
n. scurf on the head.—adj. scurfy paltry poor.—ns. Scald′berry the blackberry; Scald′-crow the hooded crow; Scald′-head a fungous parasitic disease of the scalp favus.
v.t. to burn with hot liquid: to cook slightly as fruit in hot water or steam: to cleanse thoroughly by rinsing with very hot water.—n. a burn caused by hot liquid.—ns. Scald′er one who scalds vessels: a pot for scalding; Scald′-fish a marine flat fish; Scald′ing things scalded; Scald′-rag a nickname for a dyer.—Scalding hot so hot as to scald.
n. one of the ancient Scandinavian poets.—adj. Scald′ic relating to or composed by the Scalds.
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Examples
- Would you wish me to shave my head and black my face, or disfigure myself with a burn, or a scald, or something of that sort? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- They hang and kick and stone and scald these wretched creatures to the very verge of death, and then leave them to live and suffer. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But, as princes seldom get their meat hot, my legs were not scalded, only my stockings and breeches in a sad condition. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Scalded or Pasteurized milk saves the lives of scores of babies, because the germs of summer complaint which lurk in poor milk are killed and rendered harmless in the process of scalding. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- After they are a week old feed anything they can eat, but never feed meal in a raw state, as it should be scalded first. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The black teapot, being very small and easily filled, ran over while Mrs. Corney was moralising; and the water slightly scalded Mrs. Corney's hand. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- And why should I go on scalding my face like this? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- These tinctured the silent bosom of the clouds above them and lit up their ephemeral caves, which seemed thenceforth to become scalding caldrons. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Hasty people drink the nectar of existence scalding hot; I taste it cool as dew. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Scalded or Pasteurized milk saves the lives of scores of babies, because the germs of summer complaint which lurk in poor milk are killed and rendered harmless in the process of scalding. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Eustacia said, while scalding tears trickled from her eyes. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- When she took them away, her palms were wet with scalding tears. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- But she has a tongue that scalds and that bites like a bull whip. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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