scald
/skɒld/ · noun
Meaning
- A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by hot liquid or steam.
- To burn with hot liquid.
- To heat almost to boiling.
- Scaliness; a scabby skin disease.
- Affected with the scab; scabby.
- Paltry; worthless.
- A Nordic poet of the Viking Age
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