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/skɒld//skɑld/Definitions
A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by hot liquid or steam.
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To burn with hot liquid.
Example: to scald the hand
To heat almost to boiling.
Example: Scald the milk until little bubbles form.
/skɒld//skɑld/Definitions
Scaliness; a scabby skin disease.
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Affected with the scab; scabby.
Paltry; worthless.
/skɒld//skɑld/Definitions
A Nordic poet of the Viking Age
Example: 1913, Henry Bedford-Jones, Flamehair the Skald: A Tale of the Days of Hardrede, passim.