Sekirov Dictionary

scald

/skɔːld/

noun 4
adjective 2
verb 2
forms 6

noun4

A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by hot liquid or steam.
A paste, made by mixing flour with hot or boiling water (causing starches in it to gelatinize and hold more water) and allowing that mixture to sit and cool, which is added to bread dough to produce a softer bread that takes longer to stale.
(Appalachia) Poor or bad land.
•
(no longer used) Scaliness; a scabby skin disease.
- Her craftie head was altogether bald, / And as in hate of honorable eld, / Was ouergrowne with scurfe and filthy scald[…]. — 1590

adjective2

(no longer used) Affected with the scab; scabby.
•
(no longer used) Paltry; worthless.
- Would it not grieue a King to be so abus’d? And haue a thousand horsmen tane away? And which is worse to haue his Diadem Sought for by such scalde knaues as loue him not? — 1587

verb2

•
To burn with hot liquid.
- Mine own tears / Do scald like molten lead. — 1603
•
To heat almost to boiling.
- Scald the milk until little bubbles form.

forms

scalded · scalding · scaldeth · scalds · more scald · most scald

This dictionary works without the internet: on your phone · in Chrome