Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Scald \Scald\, a. [For scalled. See {Scall}.]
   1. Affected with the scab; scabby. --Shak.

   2. Scurvy; paltry; as, scald rhymers. [Obs.] --Shak.

   {Scald crow} (Zo["o]l.), the hooded crow. [Ireland]

   {Scald head} (Med.), a name popularly given to several
      diseases of the scalp characterized by pustules (the dried
      discharge of which forms scales) and by falling out of the
      hair.