singe

[Singe]

To burn something just a little bit is to singe it. If you get too close to your backyard fire pit, you might singe your shirt sleeve.

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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.

Noun
a surface burn

Verb
burn superficially or lightly; "I singed my eyebrows"

Verb
become superficially burned; "my eyebrows singed when I bent over the flames"

v. t.
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.

v. t.
To remove the nap of (cloth), by passing it rapidly over a red-hot bar, or over a flame, preliminary to dyeing it.

v. t.
To remove the hair or down from (a plucked chicken or the like) by passing it over a flame.

n.
A burning of the surface; a slight burn.

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!

I singed the toes of an ape through a burning glass.

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.

Singe

Singe, n. A burning of the surface; a slight burn.

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.

A burning of the surface; a slight burn.

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