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(1):

(n.) Scurf on the head. See Scall.

(2):

(n.) A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by some hot liquid, or by steam.

(3):

(v. t.) To expose to a boiling or violent heat over a fire, or in hot water or other liquor; as, to scald milk or meat.

(4):

(a.) Affected with the scab; scabby.

(5):

(n.) 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.

(6):

(a.) Scurvy; paltry; as, scald rhymers.

(7):

(v. t.) 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.