singe

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   burn superficially or lightly

   I singed my eyebrows

2. 2
   verb

   become superficially burned

   my eyebrows singed when I bent over the flames

3. 3
   verb

   To burn slightly.

   made combustible by Flame They treat of, we have pretty Game, For they their own Tail Singe, to save Us

4. 4
   verb

   Obsolete form of sing.

   Then ſange Iudith this ſonge vnto the LORDE: Begynne vnto the LORDE vpon the tabrettes, ſinge vnto the LORDE vpon the cymbals.

5. 5
   noun

   a surface burn

6. 6
   verb

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

7. 7
   verb

   To remove the hair or down from (a plucked chicken, etc.) by passing it over a flame.

8. 8
   noun

   A burning of the surface; a slight burn.

Etymology

From Middle English sengen, from Old English senġan, sænċġan (“to singe, burn slightly, scorch, afflict”), from Proto-West Germanic *sangijan (“to burn, torch”), from Proto-Indo-European *senk- (“to burn”). Cognate with West Frisian singe, sinzje (“to singe”), Saterland Frisian soange (“to singe”), Dutch zengen (“to singe, scorch”), German Low German sengen (“to singe”), German sengen (“to singe, scorch”), Icelandic sangur (“singed, burnt, scorched”).