Burn off feathers or hair

Usage examples of singe.

Now Istria and I were both up, with the singed and bleeding wolf still, amazingly, on its feet and growling at both of us.

I remember their singed lawns and white-pillared porches, and the lone gas stations, the pumps like cylindrical one-armed robots, their glass tops like brimless bowler hats, and the cemeteries that looked as if no one else would ever be buried in them.

There were motives in it of fats, butyric acid, alcohols, mineral oils, heated rubber, and singed leather, to a broadly-handled accompaniment of charred feathers, lightened by suggestions of crisped flesh.

I saw his gaze flick to the side of my head where the plasmic near miss had slightly singed my hair.

Larkin kept telling him to go to hell out of a mouth that looked like a piece of singed stew meat.

A dirty, barefooted maid was sitting on a trunk, and, having undone her pale-colored plait, was pulling it straight and sniffing at her singed hair.

He smelled of vomit and singed hair and blistered flesh, and her stomach rolled and heaved.

Then Yount hastily scrambled out again, his own clothes smoldering here and there, his black beard singed and his face and hands blistered.

They left scorching tracks in the land, and Ijo the Scholar had his arm singed by one, though he was not badly hurt.

His hair was singed and the smell of burned and wet cloth was strong in his nostrils.

His hair was singed, his face was covered in mud and smut, and what she could see of it was scarlet.

Aylwin found that he had somehow cut his head, his clothes and hair were singed, and one sleeve of his best supertunic had vanished, leaving a ragged blackened edge just above his elbow.

The singed serpent was thown flat as Moonbird, wings freed, rose into the air, his shoulder still in the grip of his dangling adversary.

The powerful heat from the cannons had singed her hands and skin, raising a red welt on the left side of her face.

The mine, big with destructive power, burst upon me, and hurled me high in the air--I fell on heaps of smoking limbs, but was only singed.