scalding
11scalding — adjective 1 extremely hot: a cup of scalding tea 2 scalding criticism is very severe …
12scalding — 1. adjective Hot enough to burn. 2. noun An instance of scalding; a burn …
13scalding — /ˈskɔldɪŋ/ (say skawlding) adjective 1. hot enough to scald. 2. bitter and crushing: a scalding reply …
14Scalding Alley — Qn the north side of the Poultry, on the site now occupied by Mildred s (St.) Court (q.v.) (Maitland, 1775). In Broad Street and Cheap Wards. It was called the Scalding house (q.v.) or Scalding wike, and was used by the poulterers, who had… …
15Scalding-house — A scalding house was the office in a medieval household responsible for scalding the carcasses of animals, as well as utensils. It was also the room in which this activity took place. It was headed by a scalder. The office was subordinated to the …
16Scalding House — 1) In the parish of St. Mildred in the Poultry near le Stokkes, 1361 (Ct. H.W. II. 33). Wm. Otes left to the church of St. Mildred in the Poultry a parcel of land within the gate of the Scaldynghous, otherwise called Scaldyngwyk extending… …
17Scalding Wick — See Scalding House …
18scalding — A burning pain on urinating …
19scalding — Synonyms and related words: ardent, baking, blistering, boiling, broiling, burning, burning hot, canicular, ebullient, feverish, fiery, flushed, grilling, heated, hot, hot as fire, hot as hell, like a furnace, like an oven, overheated, overwarm,… …
20scalding — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Marked by much heat: ardent, baking, blistering, boiling, broiling, burning, fiery, heated, hot, red hot, roasting, scorching, searing, sizzling, sultry, sweltering, torrid. See HOT …
