Crossword clues for singed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Singe \Singe\ (s[i^]nj), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Singed (s[i^]njd); p. pr. & vb. n. Singeing (s[i^]nj"[i^]ng).] [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.]
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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.
You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, . . . Singe my white head!
--Shak.I singed the toes of an ape through a burning glass.
--L'Estrange. To remove the nap of (cloth), by passing it rapidly over a red-hot bar, or over a flame, preliminary to dyeing it.
To remove the hair or down from (a plucked chicken or the like) by passing it over a flame.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: singe)
Wikipedia
Singed is a 1927 American silent drama film produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation. The film was directed by John Griffith Wray and stars Blanche Sweet. Singed is based on Adela Rogers St. Johns' story "Love o' Women".
A print is preserved at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. With Czech intertitles.
Usage examples of "singed".
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.