SCORCH
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Scorch (sk&ô;rch), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scorched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Scorching.] [OE. scorchen, probably akin to scorcnen; cf. Norw. skrokken shrunk up, skrekka, skr&ö;kka, to shrink, to become wrinkled up, dial. Sw. skråkkla to wrinkle (see Shrug); but perhaps influenced by OF. escorchier to strip the bark from, to flay, to skin, F. écorcher, LL. excorticare; L. ex from + cortex, -icis, bark (cf. Cork); because the skin falls off when scorched.] 1. To burn superficially; to parch, or shrivel, the surface of, by heat; to subject to so much heat as changes color and texture without consuming; as, to scorch linen.
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Summer drouth or singèd air
Never scorch thy tresses fair.
Milton.
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2. To affect painfully with heat, or as with heat; to dry up with heat; to affect as by heat.
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Lashed by mad rage, and scorched by brutal fires.
Prior.
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3. To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.
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Power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
Rev. xvi. 8.
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The fire that scorches me to death.
Dryden.
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Scorch, v. i. 1. To be burnt on the surface; to be parched; to be dried up.
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Scatter a little mungy straw or fern amongst your seedlings, to prevent the roots from scorching.
Mortimer.
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2. To burn or be burnt.
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He laid his long forefinger on the scarlet letter, which forthwith seemed to scorch into Hester's breast, as if it had been red hot.
Hawthorne.
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3. To ride or drive at great, usually at excessive, speed; -- applied chiefly to automobilists and bicyclists. [Colloq.] -- Scorch"er, n. [Colloq.]
