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Definition of Singed
1. singe [v] - See also: singe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Singed
Literary usage of Singed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Brand's Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Faiths and Folklore; a by John Brand (1905)
"singed sheeps' heads are borne in i the procession before the Scots in London on St.
Andrew's Day. Hasted, speaking of the parish of ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1879)
"Al1 that day Ficha one enviable position, even though her woolly coat was getting
hot lay under the stove in the sitting- and singed, and her small black ..."
3. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1829)
"singed Grous. Pterocles Exustus. Tem. Col. 354. and 360. Bill, slender, attenuated ;
quills, brown, white tipt; chest-band, black ; throat and coverts, ..."
4. Autobiography and Personal Recollections of John B. Gough: With Twenty-six by John Bartholomew Gough (1870)
"... —Extracts from Journals—Dread of Audiences—Tremont Temple—Meeting in New
York—Refusal to let me Pass—Flushing, LI—" singed Cat "—Polite Proprietor. ..."
5. The Comic History of the United States: From a Period Prior to the Discovery by John D. Sherwood (1870)
"The French Moths in Mexico; and how they were singed. — Amnesties and Pardons.
— Scripture outdone.— Forgiveness forced upon the Unrepenting. ..."
6. Maine: A History by Louis Clinton Hatch, Maine Historical Society, American Historical Society (1919)
"... Thersites to Hercules, mud to marble, dunghill to diamond, a singed cat to a
Bengal tiger, a whining puppy to a roaring lion. Shade of the mighty Davis, ..."
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