单词 | singeing |
释义 | singeingn. The action of the verb, in various senses. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > [noun] > singeing swealingc1410 singeingc1440 swingea1640 singe1658 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 453/1 Seengynge,..ustillacio. 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Chamusquina Singeing with fire. a1626 F. Bacon Advt. Holy Warre in Certaine Misc. Wks. (1629) 40 I remember Drake, in the vaunting stile of a Souldier, would call this Enterprise: The Cingeing of the King of Spaines Beard. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Sheering Some use the Phrase Sheering of Hats, for the passing of Hats made of Wooll, over the Flame of a clear Fire... Others call this Flaming and others Sindging. 1764 T. Harmer Observ. Passages Script. iv. §23. 183 I do not remember an account of any things being prepared for food by singeing. 1800 Patent Specif., Bleaching, Dyeing, etc. (1859) 78 All kinds of woollen cloth..may be finished..by singeing instead of cropping or shearing. 1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto V cli. 210 The singeing of a single inky whisker. 1859 K. Cornwallis Panorama New World I. 177 The forest, instead of being burnt up, merely showed signs of singeing. 1895 J. L. Maxwell Life W. B. Thomson x. 101 My attention was drawn to an intolerable smell of singeing. Compounds singeing-furnace, singeing-lamp, singeing plate, singeing-machine, singeing stove, etc. ΚΠ 1800 Patent Specif., Bleaching, Dyeing, etc. (1859) 78 Drawing the cloth..over the singeing plate. 1805 J. Luccock Nature & Prop. Wool 158 For this purpose he employs the shears, the singing stoves and the press with its heated plates. 1844 G. Dodd Textile Manuf. Great Brit. ii. 48 Singeing-furnace. 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch II. iii. xxvii. 76 Flirtation, after all, was not necessarily a singeing process. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2186/2. a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 813/2 A gas singeing machine intended for removing or dressing the nap on woven goods. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2021). singeingadj. That singes; burning, scorching. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > [adjective] > singeing singeing1598 1598 B. Yong tr. A. Pérez 2nd Pt. Diana in tr. J. de Montemayor Diana 286 Then thornes More sharpe and pricking with thy singing scornes. 1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iii. ii. sig. F May I be numd with horror, and my vaines Pucker with sing'ing torture. 1891 M. M. Dowie Girl in Karpathians 229 In the singeing heat of..ten o'clock. Derivatives ˈsingeingly adv. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > [adverb] > so as to singe singeingly1655 1655 H. More Antidote against Atheism (ed. 2) App. xiii. 387 I confess that the Bodies of Devils may be not only warm, but sindgingly hot. 1655 H. More Antidote against Atheism (ed. 2) App. xiii. 388 When they not only strongly constringe their vehicle in the whole, but also fiercely agitate the single particles thereof, their body will become sindgingly hot, & imitate in some measure heated brass or iron. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.c1440adj.1598 |
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