Bard vs Scald - What's the difference?
bard | scald |
A professional poet and singer, as among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.
* 1924 : ARISTOTLE. Metaphysics . Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. Available at: . Book 1, Part 2.
(by extension) A poet.
A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. (Often in the plural.)
Defensive armor formerly worn by a man at arms.
(cooking) A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game.
The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.
Specifically, Peruvian bark.
To cover a horse in defensive armor.
* 1786 , Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 29:
(cooking) To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.
To burn with hot liquid.
* 1605 , , IV. vii. 48:
* Cowley
(cooking) To heat almost to boiling.
(obsolete) Scaliness; a scabby skin disease.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , I.vii:
*, II.12:
(obsolete) Affected with the scab; scabby.
* 1599 , , III. i. 110:
(obsolete) Paltry; worthless.
* 1598 , , V. ii. 215:
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As nouns the difference between bard and scald
is that bard is poet, bard while scald is a burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by hot liquid or steam or scald can be (obsolete) scaliness; a scabby skin disease or scald can be .As a verb scald is
to burn with hot liquid.As an adjective scald is
(obsolete) affected with the scab; scabby.bard
English
Etymology 1
(15th c.) from (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(wikipedia bard) (en noun)- But the divine power cannot be jealous (nay, according to the proverb, 'bards tell a lie'),
- the bard of Avon
Derived terms
* bardicEtymology 2
From (etyl) barde. English since the late 15th century.Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- The defensive armor with which the horses of the ancient knights or men at arms were covered, or, to use the language of the time, barded , consisted of the following pieces made either of metal or jacked leather, the Chamfron, Chamfrein or Shaffron, the Criniere or Main Facre, the Poitrenal, Poitral or Breast Plate, and the Croupiere or Buttock Piece.
Anagrams
* * * ----scald
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl),Verb
(en verb)- to scald the hand
- Mine own tears / Do scald like molten lead.
- Here the blue flames of scalding brimstone fall.
- Scald the milk until little bubbles form.
Etymology 2
Alteration of (scall).Noun
(-)- Her craftie head was altogether bald, / And as in hate of honorable eld, / Was ouergrowne with scurfe and filthy scald .
- Some heale Horses, some cure men, some the plague, some the scald .
Adjective
(en adjective)- and let us knog our / prains together to be revenge on this same scald , scurvy, / cogging companion,
- Saucy lictors / Will catch at us like strumpets, and scald rhymers / Ballad us out o' tune.
Etymology 3
Noun
(en noun)- A war song such as was of yore chanted on the field of battle by the scalds of the yet heathen Saxons. — Sir Walter Scott.