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Scorch \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.]


Scorch \Scorch\ (sk[^o]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["o]kka,
to shrink, to become wrinkled up, dial. Sw. skr[*a]kkla to
wrinkle (see {Shrug}); but perhaps influenced by OF.
escorchier to strip the bark from, to flay, to skin, F.
['e]corcher, 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 sing[`e]d 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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