adj affected with the scab; scabby.
2. scald ·adj scurvy; paltry; as, scald rhymers.
3. scald ·noun scurf on the head. ·see scall.
4. scald ·noun a burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by some hot liquid, or by steam.
5. scald ·vt to expose to a boiling or violent heat over a fire, or in hot water or other liquor; as, to scald milk or meat.
6. scald ·vt 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.
7. scald ·noun 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.