Scald vs Infuse - What's the difference?
scald | infuse |
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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To cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill.
To steep in a liquid, so as to extract the soluble constituents (usually medicinal or herbal).
* Coxe
To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill (with).
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
To instill as a quality.
* Shakespeare
* Jonathan Swift
To undergo infusion.
* Let it infuse for five minutes.
To make an infusion with (an ingredient); to tincture; to saturate.
(obsolete) To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed.
* Denham
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between scald and infuse
is that scald is (obsolete) paltry; worthless while infuse is (obsolete) to pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed.As verbs the difference between scald and infuse
is that scald is to burn with hot liquid while infuse is to cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill.As a noun 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 an adjective scald
is (obsolete) affected with the scab; scabby.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.
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infuse
English
Verb
(infus)- One scruple of dried leaves is infused in ten ounces of warm water.
- Infuse his breast with magnanimity.
- infusing him with self and vain conceit
- That souls of animals infuse themselves / Into the trunks of men.
- Why should he desire to have qualities infused into his son, which himself never possessed, or knew, or found the want of, in the acquisition of his wealth?
- (Francis Bacon)
- That strong Circean liquor cease to infuse .