v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Scalded; p. pr. & vb. n. Scalding. ] [ OF. eschalder, eschauder, escauder, F. échauder, fr. L. excaldare; ex + caldus, calidus, warm, hot. See Ex, and Caldron. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mine own tears
Do scald like molten lead. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Here the blue flames of scalding brimstone fall. Cowley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To expose to a boiling or violent heat over a fire, or in hot water or other liquor; as, to scald milk or meat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by some hot liquid, or by steam. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ For scalled. See Scall. ] 1. Affected with the scab; scabby. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Scurvy; paltry; as, scald rhymers. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Scald crow (Zool.), the hooded crow. [ Ireland ] --
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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Scurf on the head. See Scall. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Icel. skāld. ] 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. [ Written also skald. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A war song such as was of yore chanted on the field of battle by the scalds of the yet heathen Saxons. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A Scandinavian poet; a scald. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Scald, a. + fish. ] (Zool.) A European flounder (Arnoglossus laterna, or Psetta arnoglossa); -- called also megrim, and smooth sole. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the scalds of the Norsemen; as, scaldic poetry. [ 1913 Webster ]