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Scald vs Scall - What's the difference?

scald | scall |

As nouns the difference between scald and scall

is that 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 while scall is a scurf or scabby disease, especially of the scalp.

As a verb scald

is to burn with hot liquid.

As an adjective scald

is (obsolete) affected with the scab; scabby.

scald

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl),

Verb

(en verb)
  • To burn with hot liquid.
    • to scald the hand
  • * 1605 , , IV. vii. 48:
    • Mine own tears / Do scald like molten lead.
  • * Cowley
    • Here the blue flames of scalding brimstone fall.
  • (cooking) To heat almost to boiling.
    • Scald the milk until little bubbles form.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by hot liquid or steam.

    • Etymology 2

    Alteration of (scall).

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Scaliness; a scabby skin disease.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , I.vii:
    • Her craftie head was altogether bald, / And as in hate of honorable eld, / Was ouergrowne with scurfe and filthy scald .
  • *, II.12:
    • Some heale Horses, some cure men, some the plague, some the scald .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Affected with the scab; scabby.
  • * 1599 , , III. i. 110:
    • and let us knog our / prains together to be revenge on this same scald , scurvy, / cogging companion,
  • (obsolete) Paltry; worthless.
  • * 1598 , , V. ii. 215:
    • 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.
    (Webster 1913)

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    scall

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A scurf or scabby disease, especially of the scalp.
  • * Bible, Leviticus xiii. 30
    • It is a dry scall , even a leprosy upon the head.
    (Webster 1913) ----