Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SCA-BRED'I-TY, n. [L. scabredo, scabrities.]

Roughness; ruggedness. [Not in use.] Burton.

SCAB'ROUS, a. [L. scabrosus, scaber, from scabies, scab.]

1. Rough; rugged; having sharp points. – Arbuthnot.
2. Harsh; unmusical. – B. Jonson.

SCAB'ROUS-NESS, n.

Roughness; ruggedness.

SCAB'WORT, n.

A plant, a species of Helenium.

SCAD, n.

1. A fish, the shad, – which see. – Carew.
2. A fish of the genus Caranx, (Scomber trachurus, Linn.) – Ed. Enc.

SCAF'FOLD, n. [Fr. echafaud; Arm. chafod; Ir. scafal; It. scaffale; D. schavot; G. schafot; Dan. skafot; perhaps from the root of shape, as form is used for bench. The last syllable is the L. fala. In Cornish, skaval is a bench or stool, and this word, schavot, in Dutch, signifies a tailor's bench, as well as a scaffold.]

1. Among builders, an assemblage or structure of timbers, boards or planks, erected by the wall of a building to support the workmen.
2. A temporary gallery or stage raised either for shows or spectators. – Milton.
3. A stage or elevated platform for the execution of a criminal. – Sidney.

SCAF'FOLD, v.t.

To furnish with a scaffold; to sustain; to uphold.

SCAF'FOLD-AGE, n.

A gallery; a hollow floor. – Shak.

SCAF'FOLD-ED, pp.

Furnished with a scaffold.

SCAF'FOLD-ING, n.

1. A frame or structure for support in an elevated place.
2. That which sustains; a frame; as, the scaffolding of the body. – Pope.
3. Temporary structure for support. – Prior.
4. Materials for scaffolds.

SCAF'FOLD-ING, ppr.

Furnishing with a scaffold.

SCAG-LI-O'LA, n. [scaliola.]

Plaster that resembles marble.

SCAL'A-BLE, a.

That may be scaled.

SCA-LADE', or SCA-LA'DO, n. [Fr. scalade; Sp. scalado; from L. scala, a ladder. See Scale.]

A storm or assault on a fortified place, in which the soldiers enter the place by means of ladders. It is written also Escalade.

SCA'LA-RY, a.

Resembling a ladder; formed with steps. [Little used.] – Brown.

SCALD, a.

Scurvy; paltry; poor; as, scald rhymers. – Shak.

SCALD, n.¹ [supra.]

A burn, or injury to the skin and flesh by hot liquor.

SCALD, n.² [Qu. Sax. scyll, a shell.]

Scab; scurf on the head. – Spenser.

SCALD, n.³ [Dan. skialdrer, to make verses, also a poet. The primary sense is probably to make or to sing. If the latter, we find its affinities in G. schallen, D. schellen, Sw. skalla.]

Among the ancient Scandinavians, a poet; one whose occupation was to compose poems in honor of distinguished men and their achievements, and to recite and sing them on public occasions. The scalds of Denmark and Sweden answered to the bards of the Britons or Celts. Mallet.

SCALD, v.t. [It. scaldare; Sp. and Port. escaldar; Fr. echauder, for eschalder; Sw. skolla; Dan. skaalder; Ir. sgallaim; from the root of L. caleo, calda, calidus. I suppose the primary sense of caleo is to contract, to draw, to make hard.]

1. To burn or painfully affect and injure by immersion in or contact with a liquor of a boiling heat, or a heat approaching it; As to scald the hand or foot. We scald the part, when the heat of the liquor applied is so violent as to injure the skin and flesh. Scald is sometimes used to express the effect of the heat of other substances than liquids. Here the blue flames of scalding brimstone fall. Cowley.
2. To expose to a boiling or violent heat over a fire, or in water or other liquor; as, to scald meat or milk.

SCALD'ED, pp.

Injured by a hot liquor; exposed to boiling heat.

SCALD'ER, n.

A scald; a Scandinavian poet.

SCALD'-HEAD, n. [See Scold.]

A pustular eruption mostly of the hairy scalp, in which the pustules are indistinct, often distant patches, gradually spreading till whole head is covered as with a helmet; skin below the scabs red, shining, dotted with papillous apertures, excreting fresh matter; roots of the hair often destroyed. It is the Porrigo galeata of Good.

SCALD'IC, a.

Pertaining to the scalds or poets of antiquity; composed by scalds. – Warton.

SCALD'ING, ppr.

1. Burning or injuring by hot liquor.
2. Exposing to a boiling heat in liquor.