verb. (venery).—(1) To infect; and (2) to wax amorous. SCALDER = a clap (GROSE). As adj. = (1) infected, and (2) contemptible; scoundrel. CUPID’S SCALDING-HOUSE = a brothel.
1573. New Custom, i. 2. Like lettuce like lips; a scabb’d horse for a SCALD squire.
1592. NASHE, Pierce Penilesse, His Supplication to the Divell, Author to the Printer. Other news I am advertised of that a SCALD, trivial, lying pamphlet, cald Greens Groats-worth of Wit, is given out to be of my doing.
1599. MIDDLETON, The Old Law, iii. 2.
| My three court-codlings, that look parboil’d, | |
| As if they came from CUPID’S SCALDING-HOUSE. |
1599. SHAKESPEARE, Henry V., v. 1, 31, Will you be so good, SCAULD knave, as eat it? Ibid. (1609), Timon of Athens, ii. 2. She’s even setting on water to SCALD such chickens as you are.
1647–8. HERRICK, Hesperides, ‘To Blanch.’
| Blanch swears her husband’s lovely, when a SCALD | |
| Has blear’d his eyes. |
1678. COTTON, Scarronides, or Virgile Travestie [Works (1725), 63].
| For that which stab’d her was his Weapon, | |
| For which she did so SCALD and burn, | |
| That none but he could serve her Turn. |
