Word Meaning

Meaning of scald

- 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.
- A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by some hot liquid, or by steam.
- Affected with the scab; scabby.
- Scurvy; paltry; as, scald rhymers.
- Scurf on the head. See Scall.
- 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.

Crossword clue for scald

- Blanch (vegetables)
- Blanched (vegetables)
- Burn
- Burn with hot liquid
- Burn with steam
- Hot water burn
- Injure with hot liquid
- Scaffold fell off leaving steam burn
- Steam injury