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scald
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /sk?ld/; (cot–caught 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)
- 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.
- (cooking) To heat almost to boiling.
- Scald the milk until little bubbles form.
Translations
Noun
scald (plural scalds)
- 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)
- (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 […].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.vii:
Adjective
scald (comparative more scald, superlative most scald)
- (obsolete) Affected with the scab; scabby.
- (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)
- Alternative form of skald
- ?, Walter Scott, Saxon War Song
References
Anagrams
- DACLs, S.D. Cal., clads
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [skald]
Verb
scald
- first-person singular present indicative of sc?lda
- 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)
- (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
- 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature
References
empyrosis in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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