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▪ I. scorching, vbl. n.|ˈskɔːtʃɪŋ|
[f. scorch v.1 + -ing1.]
1. The action or an act of burning superficially, or of parching or shrivelling up by intense heat.
1563T. Hill Art Garden. (1593) 16 And if..you dout either the coldnes or hotnes of the season, in the scorching or burning of your seedes, then couer your beddes with the chaffe of corne. 1649Bp. Reynolds Hosea v. 22 Those parts of the world which are under..perpetuall scortchings. 1699Evelyn Kal. Hort., June (ed. 9) 74 The excessive Scorchings of this, and the two following Months..do frequently indanger the untimely falling both of Blossom and Fruit before their maturity. 1768Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 641 The scorchings of unextinguishable flames and gnawings of the never dying worm.
†b. pl. Fragments detached by scorching. Obs.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 253 Goates Horne being burned at the end, and the pieces or scorchinges that rise thereof, must be shaken into a new vessel vntill the horne be quite consumed. 1676T. Mace Musick's Monum. 59 Then with your Working-knife, or Chizzel, take off the Scorchings to the clean Wood.
2. The action of riding a cycle or driving a motor-car at a furious pace.
1891Wheeling 4 Mar. 422 We are..in a strong position to denounce the abuse of ‘scorching’ through inhabited parts of the country. 1898Daily News 22 July 8/2 Do you ever scorch?—I do not know what you call scorching.
▪ II. scorching, ppl. a.1|ˈskɔːtʃɪŋ|
[f. scorch v.1 + -ing2.]
1. a. That scorches, burning, withering.
1563B. Googe Eglogs, etc. (Arb.) 87 The Body dryed by broylyng blase Of preuy schorchyng Flame. 1628Mure Doomsday 206 There, to the drunkard's parched throate, Justice doth scrotching drought allote, In floods of fire. 1667Milton P.L. x. 691 How had the World Inhabited, though sinless, more then now, Avoided pinching cold and scorching heate? 1697Dryden Virg., Past. ii. 11 While in the scorching Sun I trace in vain Thy flying footsteps. 1745Watts' Hymn, ‘How bright these glorious spirits shine’, Hunger and Thirst are felt no more, Nor Suns with scorching Ray. 1812Byron Ch. Har. i. vi, He..from his native land resolved to go, And visit scorching climes beyond the sea. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 299 Under the heat of a scorching sun.
fig.1646Crashaw Steps, Charity 43 No more shalt thou..on Gods Altar cast two scorching [1648 scortching] eyes. 1666Bunyan Grace Abound. §294, I have been about to preach upon some smart and scorching portion of the word. 1895Ld. Acton Study Hist. 59 After looking about for a scorching imprecation, he [Titus Oates] began to call them Tories.
b. transf. Causing a burning sensation, irritant.
1768Miller Gardener's Dict. (ed. 8), Thapsia... The deadly Carrot, or scorching Fennel.
c. Applied transf. to a period of excessive sunshine and heat.
1940‘Gun Buster’ Return via Dunkirk ii. xix. 220 It is a pale, steady dawn, breaking with a slight haze that presages another scorching day. 1962A. Wesker Chips with Everything i. i. 12 This hut..is going to be your home for the next eight scorching weeks.
2. colloq. Astounding, sensational; licentious, risqué; in Sport, of a shot or hit: exceedingly fast, ‘blistering’.
1890St. Nicholas Sept. 945/1 The first senior to the bat made first-base on a scorching grounder past third. 1896A. Beardsley Let. c 20 Sept. (1970) 167 Your joke is charming and I shall do you some scorching drawings for No. 8 [of The Savoy]. 1897Referee 24 Oct. 3/1 A said-to-be ‘scorching’ play entitled ‘At the Foot of the Altar’. 1963A. Ross Australia 63 iii. 88 The two scorching catches by Cowdrey and Jarman. 1976Ilkeston Advertiser 10 Dec. 18/2 Garbett scored with a scorching left foot drive. 1978[see scorcher 3 d].
3. quasi-adv., in scorching cold, scorching hot.
1873E. Hooper Nurseries & School Rooms 197 The sand so scorching hot that one could not bear one's hand upon it. 1876E. W. Heap Diary 8 Sept. in Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. (1969) lii. 54 Another scortching cold morning. 1883Century Mag. July 428/1 The sun was scorching hot and the shade chilly.
Hence ˈscorchingly adv., ˈscorchingness.
1593Nashe Christ's T. 70 b, Hauing naturally cleere beauty, scortchingly blazing, which enkindles any soule that comes neere it. 1775Ash Suppl., Scorchingness.
▪ III. † ˈscorching, ppl. a.2 Obs.
[f. scorch v.2 + -ing2.]
Cutting, slashing.
1570in B.L. Ballads (1867) 179 The sister dire, fearce Atropos, with schortchyng cuttynge knyfe, Hath shred the threede that longe dyd holde this godly ladies lyfe. |