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- English Word Scald Definition 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.
- English Word Scald Definition To expose to a boiling or violent heat over a fire, or in hot water or other liquor; as, to scald milk or meat.
- English Word Scald Definition A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by some hot liquid, or by steam.
- English Word Scald Definition Affected with the scab; scabby.
- English Word Scald Definition Scurvy; paltry; as, scald rhymers.
- English Word Scald Definition Scurf on the head. See Scall.
- English Word Scald Definition 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.
- English Word Scalded Definition of Scald
- English Word Scalder Definition A Scandinavian poet; a scald.
- English Word Scaldfish Definition A European flounder (Arnoglossus laterna, or Psetta arnoglossa); -- called also megrim, and smooth sole.
- English Word Scaldic Definition Of or pertaining to the scalds of the Norsemen; as, scaldic poetry.
- English Word Scalding Definition of Scald
- English Word Scale Definition The dish of a balance; hence, the balance itself; an instrument or machine for weighing; as, to turn the scale; -- chiefly used in the plural when applied to the whole instrument or apparatus for weighing. Also used figuratively.
- English Word Scale Definition The sign or constellation Libra.
- English Word Scale Definition To weigh or measure according to a scale; to measure; also, to grade or vary according to a scale or system.
- English Word Scale Definition One of the small, thin, membranous, bony or horny pieces which form the covering of many fishes and reptiles, and some mammals, belonging to the dermal part of the skeleton, or dermoskeleton. See Cycloid, Ctenoid, and Ganoid.
- English Word Scale Definition Hence, any layer or leaf of metal or other material, resembling in size and thinness the scale of a fish; as, a scale of iron, of bone, etc.
- English Word Scale Definition One of the small scalelike structures covering parts of some invertebrates, as those on the wings of Lepidoptera and on the body of Thysanura; the elytra of certain annelids. See Lepidoptera.
- English Word Scale Definition A scale insect. (See below.)
- English Word Scale Definition A small appendage like a rudimentary leaf, resembling the scales of a fish in form, and often in arrangement; as, the scale of a bud, of a pine cone, and the like. The name is also given to the chaff on the stems of ferns.
- English Word Scale Definition The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife. See Illust. of Pocketknife.
- English Word Scale Definition An incrustation deposit on the inside of a vessel in which water is heated, as a steam boiler.
- English Word Scale Definition The thin oxide which forms on the surface of iron forgings. It consists essentially of the magnetic oxide, Fe3O4. Also, a similar coating upon other metals.
- English Word Scale Definition To strip or clear of scale or scales; as, to scale a fish; to scale the inside of a boiler.
- English Word Scale Definition To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
- English Word Scale Definition To scatter; to spread.
- English Word Scale Definition To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
- English Word Scale Definition To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae; as, some sandstone scales by exposure.
- English Word Scale Definition To separate; to scatter.
- English Word Scale Definition A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.