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scald

English

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /sk?ld/; (cotcaught merger) IPA(key): /sk?ld/
  • (UK) IPA(key): /sk??ld/, /sk?ld/
  • Rhymes: -??ld

Etymology 1

From Middle English scalden, from Old Northern French escalder (Old French eschalder, French échauder), from Late Latin excaldare (bathe in hot water), from Latin ex- (off, out) + calidus (hot)

Verb

scald (third-person singular simple present scalds, present participle scalding, simple past and past participle scalded)

  1. To burn with hot liquid.
    to scald the hand
    • 1605, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Lear, IV. vii. 48:
      Mine own tears / Do scald like molten lead.
    • 1656, Abraham Cowley, Davideis
      Here the blue flames of scalding brimstone fall.
  2. (cooking) To heat almost to boiling.
    Scald the milk until little bubbles form.
Translations

Noun

scald (plural scalds)

  1. A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by hot liquid or steam.
Translations

Etymology 2

Alteration of scall or scalled.

Noun

scald (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Scaliness; a scabby skin disease.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.vii:
      Her craftie head was altogether bald, / And as in hate of honorable eld, / Was ouergrowne with scurfe and filthy scald [].

Adjective

scald (comparative more scald, superlative most scald)

  1. (obsolete) Affected with the scab; scabby.
  2. (obsolete) Paltry; worthless.
Synonyms
  • (scabby): roynish, scurvy; see also Thesaurus:scabby
  • (paltry): contemptible, miserable, trashy; see also Thesaurus:despicable

Etymology 3

Noun

scald (plural scalds)

  1. Alternative form of skald
    • ?, Walter Scott, Saxon War Song

References

Anagrams

  • DACLs, S.D. Cal., clads

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [skald]

Verb

scald

  1. first-person singular present indicative of sc?lda
  2. first-person singular present subjunctive of sc?lda

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empyrosis

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek in + to burn.

Noun

empyrosis (plural empyroses)

  1. (obsolete) A general fire; a conflagration.
    • 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature
      the former Opinion that held these Cataclysms and Empyroses universal

References

empyrosis in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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