scorch

Definitions

1. 1.To affect painfully with heat, or as with heat; to dry up with heat; to affect as by heat. Lashed by mad rage, and scorched by brutal fires. Prior.
2. 2.To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire. Power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. Rev. xvi.
3. 3.The fire that scorches me to death. Dryden.
4. 4.To be burnt on the surface; to be parched; to be dried up. Scatter a little mungy straw or fern amongst your seedlings, to prevent the roots from scorching. Mortimer.
5. 5.To burn or be burnt. he laid his long forefinger on the scarlet letter, which forthwith seemed to scoch into Hester's breast, as if it had been red hot. Hawthorne.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is to affect painfully with heat, or as with heat; to dry up with heat; to affect as by heat. Lashed by mad rage, and scorched by brutal fires. Prior called?
• What is to burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire. Power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. Rev. xvi called?
• What is the fire that scorches me to death. Dryden called?
• What is to be burnt on the surface; to be parched; to be dried up. Scatter a little mungy straw or fern amongst your seedlings, to prevent the roots from scorching. Mortimer called?
• What is to burn or be burnt. he laid his long forefinger on the scarlet letter, which forthwith seemed to scoch into Hester's breast, as if it had been red hot. Hawthorne called?