Definition of "scald"

Mine own tears / Do scald like molten lead.

c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals), page vii, line 48

Here the blue flames of scalding brimstone fall.

1656, Abraham Cowley, Davideis

The fireman was scalded by steam, but he did not fare so badly as the enemy pilot, whose dead body was found on a bank about 100 yd. away from the train.

1943 March and April, “Notes and News: Southern Locomotive Destroys Raider”, in Railway Magazine, page 119

Her craftie head was altogether bald, / And as in hate of honorable eld, / Was ouergrowne with scurfe and filthy scald […].

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie

Some heale Horses, some cure men, some the plague, some the scald [translating teigne], some the cough, some one kinde of scab, and some another […].

1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […]

and let us knog our / prains together to be revenge on this same scald, scurvy, / cogging companion,

1599, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, act III, scene i, line 110

Would it not grieue a King to be so abuſ’d?And haue a thouſand horſmen tane away?And which is worſe to haue his DiademSought for by ſuch ſcalde knaues as loue him not?

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, (please specify the page)

Saucy lictors / Will catch at us like strumpets, and scald rhymers / Ballad us out o' tune.

1598, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra, act V, scene ii, line 215

The fire was spreading rapidly through all parts of the castle, when Ulrica, who had first kindled it, appeared on a turret, in the guise of one of the ancient furies, yelling forth a war-song, such as was of yore chaunted on the field of battle by the scalds of the yet heathen Saxons.

1820, Walter Scott, chapter I, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], page 28