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