† scaldn.1
Obsolete.figurative.1646 H. Lawrence Of Communion & Warre with Angels 104 The fire, the scald, the Itch of lusts.
= scall n.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [noun] > ring-worm or favus
achorOE
scalled-head1340
motha1398
tinea1398
serpigoc1400
ringworma1425
scald1561
tetterworm1622
surpeguea1632
serpentine1639
scald head1673
favus1706
honeycomb scall1817
dhobie itch1890
trichophytosis1890
scaly ringworm1898
whitehead1911
athlete's foot1928
1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 2 The drye skaldes of it called in Latin furfur.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. viii. sig. H4v Her crafty head was altogether bald, And..Was ouergrowne with scurfe and filthy scald.
1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. D Blanch swears her Husband's lovely; when a scald Has blear'd his eyes.
1693 London Gaz. No. 2930/4 Lately went from his Master one Martin Middleton... He hath a Scald behind in his Head.
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scaldn.2
/skɔːld/, U.S. /skɔld/, /skɑld/ 1.
a. An injury to the skin and flesh caused by hot fluid or steam.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > burn or scald
scaldinga1398
fire burning?a1425
combustion?1541
burning1542
ambustion1590
burn1594
scald1601
ustion1607
scorch1611
powder burn1864
flash burn1946
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > [noun] > scalding
scaldinga1398
scald1601
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxix. xiii. 351 Say the place be blistered..with any burne or scald.
1737 H. Bracken Farriery Improved xxxv. 506 I am satisfied that Spirit of Wine camphorated, is the very best Thing that can be applied to a Burn or Scald in Human Bodies.
a1836 W. Bowman Surgery in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VII. 865/2 A superficial scald of the whole body.
1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. 9 394 ‘Scald’ of the air-passages.
1890 Bowlby Surg. Path. (1900) 289 Scalds of the larynx..in children..commonly result from attempts to drink from a kettleful of boiling water.
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b. figurative (Scottish) Disgust, aversion, vexation. See heart-scald n., heart-scad.
c. transferred. Inflammation caused by heat; an inflamed part. Also, applied to diseases which produce a similar effect to that of scalding.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > inflammation > [noun]
heatc1000
fireOE
burning1382
phlegmona1398
disdainc1400
angerc1440
scaldingc1450
brounes1528
inflaming1530
combustion?1541
inflammation1541
incension1598
fieriness1600
angriness1612
exustion1657
phlogosis1666
phlegmasia1706
scald1882
1882 Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (new ed.) Skaud, Scad, a scald, or the mark of it; also, a galled or inflamed part of the body.
1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 99 If manure is allowed to accumulate therein, it will get into the cleft of the foot and produce scald.
1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. Scald, a destructive disease of cranberries,..applied also loosely..to any sudden wilting or decay..of leaves and fruit.
2.
a. The action or an act of scalding articles of food, utensils, etc.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > [noun] > washing in boiling water
scald1870
1661 W. Rabisha Whole Body Cookery 5 You must give your Endive a scald.
1752 E. Moxon Eng. Housewifery (new ed.) 170 Put in your Damascenes, let them have one scald.
1870 A. D. T. Whitney We Girls vi. 105 The coffee-pot and the two pans..had their scald, and their little scour.
1894 Times 16 Apr. 7/3 The high scald to which the curd is subjected after breaking.
b. Scalded curd.
ΚΠ
1859 Trans. Mich. Agric. Soc. (1860) 10 115 Do you observe a rule as to the age of the curd when you begin to heat up the scald?
3. A hot liquor or solution used for scalding.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > [noun] > scalding > hot liquor used for
scald1674
1674 H. Wolley Suppl. to Queen-like Closet 5 After the first ladder [= lather] let the other be very hot, and cast them in a scald every time.
1736 Compl. Family-piece i. ii. 99 Put your Fruit into boiling Water,..keep it in a scald till tender.
1780 A. Young Tour Ireland (Dublin ed.) I. 180 Next put it into a scald of soap.
4. A patch of land scorched by the sun. local.
ΚΠ
1795 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Norfolk (ed. 2) I. 14 ‘Scalds’ are as pernicious in Norfolk, as quicksands and springy patches are in cold-soiled countries.
1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour xii. lxxi. 395 The country..was all one dingy drab, with abundant scalds on the undrained fallows.
1882 Econ. Geol. Illinois II. 124 Where the soil becomes shallow, and the hard-pan reaches the surface there we find the so-called ‘scalds’, or barren spots, in the fields.
5. Dodder, Cuscuta europæa: cf. scaldweed n. local.
ΚΠ
1844 Phytologist 1 1140 Cuscuta europæa..is called ‘scald’ [in Cambridgeshire]; it may be presumed, on account of the scalded appearance which it gives to bean-crops.
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scaldadj.1n.
/skɔːld/, U.S. /skɔld/, /skɑld/ Obsolete exc. archaic and dialect.
A. adj.1
1. Affected with the ‘scall’; scabby. In the 16th cent. often in proverbial or allusive use: cf. scabbed adj. (See also scald head n.)
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [adjective] > of disease: scurfy or scabby > afflicted with
reofeOE
scabbed1338
scalled1340
crustyc1400
roynishc1400
roinousc1450
leprous?1457
scurfy1483
scabby1526
scurvya1529
shurvya1529
scald1529
scally1530
escharous1543
skalfering1561
scalded1568
morphewed1598
scaldy1598
scall?1602
pearled1627
scurfed1646
scruffy1660
reefy1684
porriginous1778
lepric1855
dandruffy1858
farreous1884
peeling1893
1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes ii. iv, in Wks. 185 Than shall al these scalde & scabbed peces scale clene of, & the hole body of christes holy church remaine pure.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Lev. xxi. 20 Whether he be blynde,.. or is gleyd, or is skyrvye or scaulde.
1535 D. Lindsay Satyre 2485 Howbeit I se thy skap skyre skaid [Bannatyne MS. skawd], Thou art ane stewat, I stand foird.
1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus ii. iii. sig. Mijv He shall appoint him out for such a scald squier as he is.
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. xi. sig. Ev A scalde hors is good ynough for a scabde squier.
1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 474/2 Some murmure and snarle as soone as their scald backs are rubbed.
1639 O. Wood Alphabet. Bk. Physicall Secrets 181 Scal'd head the cure.
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Scaud-man's head, the sea urchin.]
2. figurative. ‘Scurvy’, mean, paltry, contemptible. (Cf. scabbed adj. 2.)
a. Of persons.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > baseness > base thing or person > [adjective]
scald?a1534
base1576
scoundrel1700
?a1534 H. Medwall Nature i. sig. ciiv The scald capper sware..That yt cost hym euen as myche.
1595 G. Peele Old Wiues Tale 425 (Gummere) You whorson, scald Sexton and Churchwarden.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) v. ii. 211.
1639 J. Fletcher et al. Bloody Brother i. i. sig. B2 Your gravity once layd My head and heeles together in the dungeon, For cracking a scall'd officers crowne.
b. ⁋ scald miserable: a burlesque designation apparently first used in 1742 in connection with a procession of ragamuffins intended to ridicule the Freemasons. A print of 1771 representing this brought the expression into temporary currency with the sense ‘despicable wretch’.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > baseness > base person > [adjective]
vilea1300
unnoblea1382
noughty1443
villain1509
vild1567
scalded1568
brokerly1592
broking1592
poor-spirited1611
scald1742
basilar1884
1742 (title) An Epistle from Dick Poney, Esq. Grand-Master of the Right Black-Guard Society of Scald-Miserable Masons.
1771 (title of plate by Benoist) A Geometrical View of the Grand Procession of the Scald Miserable Masons, Design'd as they were Drawn up over against Somerset House, in the Strand on the twenty Seventy of April, Ano. 1742.
1772 T. Nugent tr. J. F. de Isla Hist. Friar Gerund I. iii. vi. 563 Our poor scald miserable of a Friar Gerund.
1773 J. Berridge Let. 18 Aug. in Wks. (1864) 371 I am now, as the world accounts, a scold miserable.
1828 H. Angelo Reminisc. I. 407 The print of the Scald Miserables..is by him [sc. Benoist].
1828 H. Angelo Reminisc. I. 408 The contrivers of the mock procession of scald masons, which actually took place in the year 1742.]
c. Of things.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > paltry, mean, or contemptible
unworthlyc1230
wretcha1250
seely1297
vilec1320
not worth a cress (kerse)1377
the value of a rushc1380
threadbarec1412
wretched1450
miserable?a1513
rascal1519
prettya1522
not worth a whistlea1529
pegrall1535
plack1539
pelting1540
scald1542
sleeveless1551
baggage1553
paltering1553
piddling1559
twopenny1560
paltry1565
rubbish1565
baggagely1573
pelfish1577
halfpenny1579
palting1579
baubling1581
three-halfpenny1581
pitiful1582
triobolar1585
squirting1589
not worth a lousea1592
hedge1596
cheap1597
peddling1597
dribbling1600
mean1600
rascally1600
three-farthingc1600
draughty1602
dilute1605
copper1609
peltry?a1610
threepenny1613
pelsy1631
pimping1640
triobolary1644
pigwidgeon1647
dustya1649
fiddling1652
puddlinga1653
insignificant1658
piteous1667
snotty1681
scrubbed1688
dishonourable1699
scrub1711
footy1720
fouty1722
rubbishing1731
chuck-farthing1748
rubbishy1753
shabby1753
scrubby1754
poxya1758
rubbishly1777
waff-like1808
trinkety1817
meanish1831
one-eyed1843
twiddling1844
measly1847
poking1850
picayunish1852
vild1853
picayune1856
snide1859
two-cent1859
rummagy1872
faddling1883
finicking1886
slushy1889
twopence halfpenny1890
jerk1893
pissy1922
crappy1928
two-bit1932
piddly1933
chickenshit1934
pissing1937
penny packet1943
farkakte1960
pony1964
gay1978
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [adjective] > contemptible
unworthc893
unwrastc893
littleOE
narrow-hearteda1200
wretcha1200
unworthya1240
wretchedc1250
un-i-wrastc1275
bad1276
lechera1300
feeblea1325
despisablea1340
villain1340
contemptiblec1384
lousyc1386
caitiff1393
brothelyc1400
roinousa1425
poor1425
sevenpennyc1475
nasty1477
peakish1519
filthy1533
despectuous1541
beggary1542
scald1542
shitten?1545
disdainfula1547
contemptuous1549
despicable1553
skit-brained?1553
contemniblea1555
vile1560
sluttish1561
queer1567
scornful1570
scallardc1575
tinkerly?1576
worthless1576
beggarly?1577
paltry1578
halfpenny1579
dog bolt1580
pitiful1582
sneaking1582
triobolar1585
wormisha1586
baddy1586
dudgeon1592
measled1596
packstaff1598
roguey1598
roguish1601
contemptful1608
grovelling1608
lightly1608
disdainable1611
purulent1611
snotty-nose1622
vilipendious1630
cittern-headed1638
wormy1640
pissabed1643
triobolary1644
disparageable1648
blue-bellied1652
unestimable1656
scullion1658
piteous1667
dirty1670
shabbed1674
shabby1679
snotty1681
snotty-nosed1682
mucky1683
bollocky1694
scoundrel1700
scaldeda1704
sneaking1703
ficulnean1716
unsolid1731
pitiable1753
scrubby1754
inimitable1798
scrubbish1798
worm-likea1807
small1824
lowlife1827
ketty1828
skunkish1831
yellow-bellied1833
scaly1843
cockroachya1845
wutless1853
nigger1859
trashy1862
low-down1872
cruddy1877
shitty1879
tinhorn1886
blithering1889
motherfucking1890
snidey1890
pilgarlicky1894
shitass1895
shoddy1918
yah boo1921
bitching1929
shit-faced1932
turdish1936
fricking1937
jerk-off1937
chickenshit1940
sheg-up1941
snot-nosed1941
jerky1944
mother-loving1948
scroungy1948
fecking1952
pissant1952
shit-kicking1953
shit-eating1956
bumboclaat1957
rassclaat1957
shit-headed1959
farkakte1960
shithouse1966
daggy1967
dipshit1968
scuzzy1969
bloodclaat1971
bitch ass1972
wanky1972
streelish1974
twatty1975
twattish1976
dweeby1988
douchey1991
wank1991
cockish1996
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 260 If it chaunce a scalde cuppe of thyn to bee broken.
1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Bodl. copy) Ep. to Printer sig. 2 v A scald triuiall lying Pamphlet, called Greens groats-worth of wit.
1616 B. Jonson Epicœne iv. i, in Wks. I. 565 If shee haue..a fat hand, and scald nailes, let her carue the lesse, and act in gloues. View more context for this quotation
a1627 T. Middleton et al. Widdow (1652) iv. ii. 49 I'm rid of a sore burden, for my part Master, Of a scal'd little one.
1773 R. Fergusson Poems 119 A scaw'd bit o' a penny note.
B. n.
1. A scurvy fellow.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > worthlessness > worthless person > [noun]
ribalda1250
brethelingc1275
filec1300
waynouna1350
waster1352
lorel1362
losel1362
land-leaper1377
javelc1400
leftc1400
lorerc1400
shackerellc1420
brethel1440
never-thrift1440
ne'er-thrifta1450
never-thrivinga1450
nebulona1475
breelc1485
naughty pack?1534
brathel1542
unsel155.
pelf1551
wandrel?1567
land-loper1570
scald1575
baggage1594
arrant1605
good-for-nothing1611
hilding1611
vauneant1621
idle-pack1624
thimble-maker1654
never-do-well1664
ne'er-be-good1675
shack1682
vagabond1686
shag-bag1699
houndsfoot1710
blackguard1732
ne'er-do-well1737
trumpery1738
rap1742
good-for-naught1773
rip1781
mauvais sujet1793
scamp1808
waffie1808
loose fish1809
ne'er-do-good1814
hard bargain1818
vaurien1829
sculpin1834
shicer1846
wastrel1847
scallywag1848
shack-bag1855
beat1865
rodney1877
git1939
no-hoper1944
piss artist1962
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > low or vulgar person > [noun]
gadlinga1300
geggea1300
churlc1300
filec1300
jot1362
scoutc1380
beggara1400
carla1400
turnbroach14..
villainc1400
gnoffc1405
fellowc1425
cavelc1430
haskardc1487
hastardc1489
foumart1508
strummel?a1513
knapper1513
hogshead?1518
jockeya1529
dreng1535
sneakbill1546
Jack1548
rag1566
scald1575
huddle and twang1578
sneaksby1580
companion1581
lowling1581
besognier1584
patchcock1596
grill1597
sneaksbill1602
scum1607
turnspit1607
cocoloch1610
compeer1612
dust-worm1621
besonioa1625
world-worma1625
besognea1652
gippo1651
Jacky1653
mechanic1699
fustya1732
grub-worm1752
raff1778
person1782
rough scuff1816
spalpeen1817
bum1825
sculpin1834
soap-lock1840
tinka1843
'Arry1874
scruff1896
scruffo1959
society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [noun] > baseness or moral vileness > person
wretchOE
filthOE
birdc1300
villain1303
caitiffc1330
crachouna1400
crathona1400
custronc1400
sloven?a1475
smaik?1507
rook?a1513
scavenger1563
scald1575
peasant1581
scaba1592
bezonian1592
slave1592
patchcock1596
muckworm1649
blackguard1732
ramscallion1734
nasty1825
cad1838
boundera1889
three-letter man1929
1575 W. Stevenson Gammer Gurtons Nedle iii. iii. sig. Ciiiv Thou skald, thou bald, thou rotten, yu glotton.
1909 G. B. Shaw Press Cuttings 37 G'lang, you young scald: if I had you here I'd teach you manners.
1919 G. B. Shaw O'Flaherty V.C. 179 What do you mean, you lying young scald, by telling me you were going to fight agen the English?
2. = scall n.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [noun] > scurfy or scabby state or disease
scurfc1000
scabc1250
scallc1374
lepraa1398
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scalledness1398
morphewa1400
scabiesc1400
scale14..
scruff14..
shellsc1400
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scabnessc1450
scabbedness1483
scaldness1527
scurfinessa1529
scaledness1530
dandruff1545
skalfering1561
bran1574
room1578
reefa1585
scabbiness1584
scald1598
skilfers1599
scabiosity1608
scalliness1610
scaliness1611
furfur1621
morph1681
pityriasis1684
psoriasis1684
porrigo1706
scaly tetter1799
motley dandruff1822
scale-skin1822
parapsoriasis1903
dander-
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Tegna, the scurfe or scald that comes to some mens heades.
Compounds
scald-pate n. = scald head n.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [noun] > ring-worm or favus > head
scald head1546
scald-pate1611
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Teigneux No scauld-pate will the combe indure.
1659 G. Torriano Florio's Vocabolario Italiano & Inglese The scurfe or scauld pate, tigna, pelarella.
scald-pated adj. = scald-headed adj. at scald head n. Derivatives.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [adjective] > ringworm or favus
scald-pated1611
serpedinous1616
serpiginous1676
scald-headed1802
favic1892
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Teigneux, scuruie, scauld-pated.
1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. xxx. 196 Achilles was a scauld-pated maker of hay-bundles.
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scaldadj.2
/skɔːld/, U.S. /skɔld/, /skɑld/ = scalded adj.1 scald cream: clotted or clouted cream. scald milk: milk from which the cream has been skimmed after scalding.
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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [noun] > cream > clotted cream
cloutsc1430
clouted cream1542
buttercream1658
scald cream1791
clotted cream1878
the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [noun] > milk > skimmed milk
skim-milk1598
skimmed milka1722
Blue John1869
skim1885
scald milk1886
semi-skimmed1981
1791 Gentleman's Mag. 61 ii. 720/2 That cream termed scald, or clotted cream.
1791 Gentleman's Mag. 61 ii. 720/2 Those dairies that make scald~cream butter.
1796 W. Marshall Rural Econ. W. Eng. I. 251 In ‘scald cream dairies’, no churn is in use.
1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! viii If it don't ate so soft as ever was scald cream, never you call me Thomas Burman.
1886 All Year Round 14 Aug. 34 Who in Cornwall ever thinks of drinking anything but ‘scald’ milk?
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scaldv.
/skɔːld/, U.S. /skɔld/, /skɑld/ I. ‘To burn with hot liquor’ (Johnson).† 5. transitive. To boil to death. Also absol. Obsolete.
1.
a. transitive. To affect painfully and injure with very hot liquid or steam.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > burn or scald
forscalda1225
forseethe?c1225
scald1340
burn1509
powder-burn1782
vitriolize1886
vitriol1897
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 66 Hare mouþ is ase þe wyȝte þet ualþ ine hot weter þet..scoldeþ alle þo þet byeþ þer aboute.
c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1162 The Cook yscalded, for al his longe ladel.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 442/2 Scalt, estuatus.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 351 If one be scalded with hot water, lay..an egg to the place.
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 33 They all drink it sipping, for fear of scalding them~selves.
1786 J. Abercrombie Gardeners Daily Assistant 302 For fear of..steam scalding the plants.
1813 J. Thomson Lect. Inflammation 605 Let a piece of linen dipt in brandy..be immediately applied to the parts scalded with hot water.
1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel III. iii. 78 Scalding yourself, as I may say, with your own ladle?
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 285 Huge stones and boiling water were in readiness to crush and scald the plunderer.
b. absol. or intransitive. To be scalding hot.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (intransitive)] > burn
scalda1639
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > be hot [verb (intransitive)] > be scalding hot
scald1812
?c1225 (?a1200) [implied in: Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 180 Þeo wið innen heldeð schaldinde water ut & werieð swa þe walles. (at scalding adj. 1a)].
a1639 W. Whately Prototypes (1640) i. xx. 20 Words of reviling scald as it were.
1642 T. Fuller Holy State ii. xix. 127 Some excuse there is for bloud enraged, and no wonder if that scaldeth which boyleth.
1812 H. Davy Elements Chem. Philos. 80 Water scalds at 150°.
c. intransitive for passive. To become injured by hot liquid or steam.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (intransitive)] > be injured > suffer scald or burn
scald1590
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > be subjected or exposed to heat or fire [verb (intransitive)] > be scalded
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1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. G5v Now scaldes his soule in the Tartarian streames.
1850 Ld. Tennyson Princess (ed. 3) v. 125 Those detestable That let the bantling scald at home, and brawl Their rights or wrongs like potherbs in the street.
2. transitive. To produce an injurious effect upon (something) similar to that produced by boiling water.absolute.1692 J. Dryden Cleomenes i. i. 2 And if a manly drop or Two fall down, It scalds along my Cheeks.1835 R. C. Trench Justin Martyr 16 The tear which does not heal, will scald and sear.
a. Of tears, humours.
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?c1225 (?a1200) [implied in: Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 180 Warpeð ut up on him scaldinde teres. (at scalding adj. 2a)].
1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 6576 Hate teres of gretyng, Þat þe synful sal scalden in þe dounfallyng.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xxi. 46 I am bound Vpon a wheele of fire, that mine owne teares Do scald like molten lead. View more context for this quotation
1696 London Gaz. No. 3240/4 The left side of his face burnt or scalded by some Humor.
1724 J. Douglas in Philos. Trans. 1722–3 (Royal Soc.) 32 86 When the Urine begins to come the right way, it pains and scalds them much after the same manner.
1873 Bryant Living Lost ii The tears that scald the cheek.
b. figurative. Of words, language.
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1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid i. Prol. 258 The quent and curious castis poeticall,..Caxtoun, for dreid thai suld his lippis scawde Durst neuer tuiche.
1847 J. Martineau Endeavours Christian Life II. x. 170 He..grows glib in uttering falsehoods that should scald his lips.
3. To wash and cleanse with boiling water:
a. the carcasses of animals, esp. swine and poultry, in order to remove hair or feathers, etc.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of fowls > prepare fowls [verb (transitive)] > clean or disembowel
scalda1400
draw1440
fillet1846
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of meat > dress animals for food [verb (transitive)] > disembowel or clean
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void1535
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paunch1570
hulk1622
viscerate1727
porge1773
clean1841
gralloch1848
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 15988 Ne sal he neuer vp-rise eft,..Ar sal þis cok vp-rise was skald yisternight!
c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 25 Fayre smal Chykenys wyl & clene skladdyd & drawe.
a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 26 Take capons and schalde and pyke hom þen.
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Glabrare sues, to scaulde hogges and take of their heare.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) ii. ii. 68 She's e'ne setting on water to scal'd such Chickens as you are. View more context for this quotation
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery ii. 32 Gut and scald your Pig.
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery viii. 72 Take a Couple of Ducks, scald them.
b. vessels, implements, clothes. (Also with out.)
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > wash [verb (transitive)] > wash in boiling water
scald1747
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery xiii. 130 Scald the Pot clean.
1750 W. Ellis Country Housewife's Family Compan. 308 To heat a good Quantity of Water..for scalding Pails.
1869 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 459 Preparing to scald out the frying-pan.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 339 All milk should be..boiled, and the bottle always scalded before use.
c. To take off (the hair or feathers of an animal) with hot water.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > subject or expose to heat or fire [verb (transitive)] > to action or hot water
scalda1387
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > uncover or remove covering from [verb (transitive)] > strip or make bare > strip of feathers or plumes > specific manner
scalda1387
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 259 He gadereth water and heteþ it..þroweþ it vppon hunteres and houndes..and scaldeþ of þe heere of hem.
1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 106 The heer behynde was skalded of.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 26 The Marques Bath..is so hot, as it will scald off the haire of a Hogge.
d. To apply a hot lotion or solution to.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments using water > treat hydropathically [verb (transitive)] > apply hot liquid to
scald1753
1753 J. Bartlet Gentleman's Farriery xxxi. 260 If the matter flows in great abundance, and of a thin consistence, it must be scalded again.
1887 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. VI. Scald, to boil or buck cloth with white soap after bleaching.
4. Cookery.
a. To heat liquid to a point just short of boiling point. Also intransitive for passive.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > cook [verb (transitive)] > boil > scald
scald1483
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > undergo cooking [verb (intransitive)] > undergo boiling > undergo scalding
scald1833
1483 Cath. Angl. 320/2 To Scalde browes, adipare.
1692 T. Tryon Good House-wife (ed. 2) iii. 45 If you take milk and scald it (but it must be done to a point, not to hot).
1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd ii. i Our meikle pot that scads the whey.
1833 A. E. Bray Let. in Descr. Part Devonshire (1836) III. xl. 290 There was a pan of milk..scalding over the embers of a wood fire.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 192/2 The milk is first ‘scalded’, the pan containing it being closely watched, in order that the contents may not boil.
b. To subject to the action of hot water; to pour hot liquid over.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > general preparation processes > perform general preparation processes [verb (transitive)] > pour boiling water on
scaldc1430
c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 24 Take fayre Bolasse..in Wyne boyle hem þat þey be but skaldyd bywese.
1591 T. Cokayne Short Treat. Hunting C j Ground Otes put in a tub and scalded with water.
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery xvi. 147 A Buttered Tort. Take eight or ten large Codlings and scald them.
1831 J. Morton Gloucestershire Vale-farm 33 in Farm-rep. It is customary with most dairy-maids to scald the curd with hot whey.
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > execute [verb (transitive)] > boil
scalda1536
boil1556
to make white broth of1645
a1536 in Songs, Carols, etc. (E.E.T.S.) 161 Þer was on skaldyd in Smythfild, for poysenyng of dyueris men of þe Bisshop of Rochesters howse.
1554 D. Lindsay Dialog Experience & Courteour l. 4642 in Wks. (1931) I Peter, Andro, Iohne, Iames, and Paull,..To byrne and skald thay neuer pretendit.
1568 H. Charteris Pref. Lyndesay's Wks. ✠ iij b To bruyle and scald quha sa euer suld speik aganis thame.
II. To burn.† 7. transitive. Of desire, thoughts, etc.: To ‘burn’, inflame, irritate. Also intransitive, to ‘burn’ or be fired with desire. Obsolete.
6. absolute.1578 G. Best True Disc. Passage to Cathaya i. 24 If anye man say the Sunne maye scalde a good while, before and after it come to the Meridian.1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 4 Fire, being invested in the body of..metals, scaldeth more furiously than in wood.1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 413 The Reverberation of which [high mountain] so furiously heats the place in the dog-days, that it scalds again.
a. transitive. Of the sun or fire, etc.: To scorch, burn. Also said of certain soils. Obsolete exc. dialect.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > subject or expose to heat or fire [verb (transitive)] > scald
scalda1300
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > subject or expose to heat or fire [verb (transitive)] > damage or injure by heat or fire > burn or scorch
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forscalda1225
scalda1300
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toast1398
bysweltc1420
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sear1590
torrefy1601
plot1606
reese1618
ustulate1623
a1300 E.E. Psalter cxx. 6 Bi dai noght þe sunne skalde þe sal.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Miller's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 665 And Nicholas is scalded in the toute.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xx. 227 Fro this burnyshyd brande.., I red ye be shunand, Or els the dwill skald you.
1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 25v Chafynge meates do scaulde the lyver.
1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) vii. f. 89v Swelting heate that scalt their guts within.
1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie ii. sig. Uuuu2 Blest with a sweet and temperate Air, not over-scalded with the Sun.
1786 R. Burns Poems 56 I'm sure sma' pleasure it can gie, Ev'n to a deil, To skelp an' scaud poor dogs like me.
1793 Trans. Soc. Arts 11 77 A heavy soil will..scald and starve any kind of grain.
1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet I. xi. 256 That will be as bad as scauding your fingers wi' a red-hot chanter.
1881 Scribner's Monthly 22 268 Not a leaf..burned or scalded during the hot, dry weather.
b. intransitive for passive. To be scorched or burnt.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > be subjected or exposed to heat or fire [verb (intransitive)] > suffer damage or injury by heat or fire > be scorched
scorkenc1175
snarchea1200
scorchc1430
brass1481
scald1513
bristle1788
grill1842
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iv. x. 89 And all the cost belive of flambis scald [L. iam fervere litora flammis].
c1520 M. Nisbet New Test. in Scots (1901) I. Matt. xiii. 6 Bot quhen the sonn was risen, thai scaldit.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. iii. 162 Thou dost sit Like a rich armour worne in heate of day, That scaldst with safty. View more context for this quotation
1902 H. R. Haggard Rural Eng. II. 392 There the land was light and they scalded.
c. transferred. To become inflamed, sore, or raw.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > inflammation > become inflamed [verb (intransitive)]
scald1566
inflame1607
1566 T. Blundeville Order curing Horses Dis. f. 10, in Fower Offices Horsemanshippe If you looke on his tongue, you shall see it almost rawe and scalte, with the heat that commes out of his body.
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. To Skaud, Skad, when any part of the body is galled and inflamed, in consequence of heat, it is said to skad.
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the mind > emotion > passion > ardour or fervour > ardent or fervent [verb (transitive)] > inflame (with) passion
annealeOE
ontendeOE
anheatOE
atend1006
tindc1175
firec1225
heat?c1225
inlowa1300
inflamea1340
eschaufec1374
flamec1380
kindlec1390
chafe1393
achafea1400
to set a firec1400
lighta1413
incense1435
scaldc1480
embrase1483
incend?1504
to set on fire?1526
enkindle1561
enfire1596
flush1633
boil1649
calenturea1657
infirea1661
the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > vehement or passionate desire > desire vehemently or passionately [verb (intransitive)]
burnc1000
wedec1000
scaldc1480
the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > vehement or passionate desire > desire vehemently or passionately [verb (transitive)] > inflame with passionate desire
inflamea1340
scaldc1480
enkindle1561
c1480 (a1400) St. Mary of Egypt 961 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 324 Quhene sick thocht can me schald.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. vii. 10 The byssy curis of Turnus mariage Skalding hir breist and mynd all in a rage.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xiii. vi. 104 In our [= over] ardent desyre Of the bargan he scaldit hait as fyre.
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) v. vii. 49 I am scalded with my violent motion And spleene of speede, to see your Maiesty. View more context for this quotation
1629 P. Massinger Roman Actor iv. ii. sig. Hv Would not a secret..Scald you to keepe it?
1665 C. Cotton Scarronnides 2 For which she did so scald and burn That none but he could serve her turn.
III. To raise to a heat.
8. Glass-making. [after Italian scaldare, French échauder.] transitive ? To bring to a certain heat.
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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > glass-making > make glass [verb (transitive)] > specific processes
nip1559
scald1662
found1783
deliver1809
frit1832
gather1839
to wet off, up1849
marver1852
platten1875
matt1885
1662 C. Merrett tr. A. Neri Art of Glass 247 The Master workman, who..with his ponteglo sticks the Glass and scalds it.
1699 tr. H. de Blancourt Art of Glass iii. 27 With Blowing, Pressing, Scalding, Amplifying, and Cutting he forms it [glass] into what shape he pleases.
Compounds
scald-chops n. humorous hot tea.
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the world > food and drink > drink > tea > [noun] > hot tea
scald-chops1830
1830 F. Marryat King's Own II. xx. 313 It was the signal for tea. ‘Hurra for Scaldchops!’
scald-lips n. (Scottishscadlips) ‘broth containing a very small portion of barley, and on this account more apt to burn the mouth’ (Jamieson).
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > [noun] > barley soup
scald-lips1706
barley-broth1723
Scotch broth1735
barley-soup1747
sky blue1887
1706 Blythsome Wedding in J. Watson Choice Coll. Scots Poems (1977) I. 69 There will be..a haggize, And scadlips to sup till ye're fow.
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