Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • An obsolete or dialectal preterit and past participle of scald.

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Examples

  • It is not our object to follow Miss Webster through her domestic troubles nor through the tedious process of the convalescence of a scalt foot.

    Emilie the Peacemaker Mrs. Thomas Geldart

  • She has scalt her foot, and is quite laid up, and the lodgers are very angry.

    Emilie the Peacemaker Mrs. Thomas Geldart

  • It happened in no very unusual manner, and the effect was a scalt foot, which she forthwith shewed Miss Schomberg.

    Emilie the Peacemaker Mrs. Thomas Geldart

  • "Will you give up your walk to-night, Edith," said Emilie on her return to the shop, "Poor Miss Webster is in such pain I cannot leave her, and if you would run home and ask your papa to step in and see her, and say she has scalt her foot badly, I would thank you very much."

    Emilie the Peacemaker Mrs. Thomas Geldart

  • Swulc thu woldest to hævene · nu thu scalt to hælle;

    A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

  • If I'd stayed in till they got to growlin 'around and wantin' to put me out I'd have to walk up and down in this town like Gid Ward does now -- meechin 'as a scalt pup.

    The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Holman Day 1900

  • Why, I found it full of frogs 'eggs this very morning, and I hove 'em away and scalt it out.

    "Some Say" Neighbours in Cyrus Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

  • You ain't goin 'a step on that scalt foot an' get laid up, with that weddin 'comin' off, not if I know it.

    Young Lucretia and Other Stories Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman 1891

  • They say he has her put the mornin 'coffee-groun's to dry on the winder-sill,' n 'then has 'em scalt over for dinner; but, there!

    Timothy's Quest A Story for Anybody, Young or Old, Who Cares to Read It Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

  • Shorsha, was nearly done, and the flesh thoroughly hot, so Finn's thumb was scalt, and he, clapping it to his mouth, sucked it, in order to draw out the pain, and in a moment -- hubbuboo!

    The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro" George Henry Borrow 1842

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