Singe word meaning and definition

[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"

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

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