Scald vs Scaled - What's the difference?
scald | scaled |
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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(scale)
(zoology) Covered with scales or scale-like structures.
Without scales, or with the scales removed.
As verbs the difference between scald and scaled
is that scald is to burn with hot liquid while scaled is past tense of scale.As adjectives the difference between scald and scaled
is that scald is affected with the scab; scabby while scaled is covered with scales or scale-like structures.As a noun scald
is a burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by hot liquid or steam.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.
Anagrams
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scaled
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- scaled herring
