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.-to expose to a boiling or violent heat over a fire, or in hot water or other liquor; as, to scald milk or meat.-a burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by some hot liquid, or by steam.-affected with the scab; scabby.-scurvy; paltry; as, scald rhymers.-scurf on the head. see scall.-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.