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singeing |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Singe \Singe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Singed}; p. pr & vb n. {Singeing}.] [OE. sengen, AS sengan in besengan (akin to D. zengen G. sengen), originally, to cause to sing, fr AS singan to sing, in allusion to the singing or hissing sound often produced when a substance is singed, or slightly burned. See {Sing}.] 1. To burn slightly or superficially; to burn the surface of to burn the ends or outside of as to singe the hair or the skin. You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, . . . Singe my white head! --Shak. I singed the toes of an ape through a burning glass. --L'Estrange. 2. a To remove the nap of (cloth), by passing it rapidly over a red-hot bar, or over a flame, preliminary to dyeing it b To remove the hair or down from (a plucked chicken or the like) by passing it over a flame.
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