Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Scorch

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Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Scorch


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(1):

(v. i.) To ride or drive at great, usually at excessive, speed; -- applied chiefly to automobilists and bicyclists. [Colloq.]

(2):

(v. t.) To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.

(3):

(v. t.) 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.

(4):

(v. t.) To affect painfully with heat, or as with heat; to dry up with heat; to affect as by heat.

(5):

(v. i.) To be burnt on the surface; to be parched; to be dried up.

(6):

(v. i.) To burn or be burnt.