1. (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.

2. (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.

3. (n.) A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by some hot liquid, or by steam.

4. (a.) Affected with the scab; scabby.

5. (a.) Scurvy; paltry; as, scald rhymers.

6. (n.) Scurf on the head. See Scall.

7. (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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