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Singe   /sɪndʒ/   Listen
verb
Singe  v. t.  (past & past part. singed; pres. part. singeing)  
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.



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






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... to 1869. For Schund, see his Darwin's Hypothese und ihr Verhaaltniss zu Religion und Moral, Stuttgart, 1869. For Luthardt, see Fundamental Truths of Christianity, translated by Sophia Taylor, second ed., Edinburgh, 1869. For Rougemont, see his L'Homme et le Singe, Neuchatel, 1863 (also in German trans.). For Constantin James, see his Mes Entretiens avec l'Empereur Don Pedro sur la Darwinisme, Paris, 1888, where the papal briefs are printed in full. For the English attacks on Darwin's Descent ...
— History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom • Andrew Dickson White

... Singe, empty, and split chicken in half; take breastbone out and sprinkle salt and pepper over. Melt 1/2 cupful Crisco in frying pan and fry chicken half hour, turning it now and then. Remove from pan and place between ...
— The Story of Crisco • Marion Harris Neil

... sat down beside the river, Dalonagan said, "What shall we use for the alawig, [249] for your father and mother?" "The singed pig, for it is the custom of the people in Kadalayapan," said Kanag to his mother-in-law. "Go and get some of the pigs and singe them," said Dalonagan to him. Not long after he singed the pigs and he carried them to the people, and his wife Dapilisan carried one little jar which looked like a fist, filled with basi. As soon as the woman who was making Sayang had finished the ...
— Traditions of the Tinguian: A Study in Philippine Folk-Lore • Fay-Cooper Cole

... Sala has observed that 'nine-tenths of the English visitors to the Kursaal, play;' and he does not hesitate to say that the moths who flutter round the garish lamps at the Kursaal Van der Hohe, and its kindred Hades, almost invariably singe their wings; and that the chaseer at Roulette and Rouge, generally turn out edged tools, with which those incautious enough to play with them are apt to cut their ...
— The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims - Volume I (of II) • Andrew Steinmetz

... hear it. If falling in love were my habit, no doubt I shouldn't take it so hard. But the simple truth, though I am thirty years old, is that I have never before felt so much as a heart-flutter for any woman. And, since you cite your reading, I have read that a fire which may merely singe the surface of green wood, will entirely consume ...
— My Friend Prospero • Henry Harland


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