to scald the hand

Like this weekend, with moderate temperatures, the sky a bowl of blue, and the wind not a cold curse or a hot furnace, but a bit of a leaf-rustler, a cooling refreshment.

His father met him with some impatient questions as to what he had been living on so long, for the old man well knew how scantily his pocket was supplied. Pretty much like the young ravens, answered he; I only wished I had been as good a player on the flute as poor George Primrose in The Vicar of Wakefield. If I had his art, I should like nothing better than to tramp like him from cottage to cottage over the world.―I doubt, said the grave Clerk to the Signet, I greatly doubt, sir, you were born for nae better than a gangrel scrape-gut.

For example when the Mississippi water flows into the saline water of the Gulf of Mexico, much of the matter that was held suspended in the river-water is flocculated at once, so that it can subside. Such action as this is one prime cause of the formation of deltas, for the flocculation of fine mud by salt is common to all rivers that reach the sea.