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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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}.]
     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.
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              You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, . . .
              Singe my white head!                  --Shak.
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              I singed the toes of an ape through a burning glass.
                                                    --L'Estrange.
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     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.
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