L'Estrange.
2. (a) To remove the nap of (cloth), by passing it rapidly over a
red-hot bar, or over a flame, preliminary to dyeing it. (b) To remove
the hair or down from (a plucked chicken or the like) by passing it
over a flame.
Singe, n. A burning of the surface; a slight burn.
Sin"ger (sn"jr), n. [From Singe.] One who, or that which, singes.
Specifically: (a) One employed to singe cloth. (b) A machine for
singeing cloth.
Sing"er (?), n. [From Sing.] One who sings; especially, one whose
profession is to sing.
Sing"er*ess, n. A songstress. [Obs.] Wyclif.
Sin`gha*lese" (?), n. & a. [Skr. Sihala Ceylon.] (Ethnol.) Same as
Cingalese.
Sing"ing (?), a. & n. from Sing, v.
Singing bird. (Zoöl.) (a) Popularly, any bird that sings; a song bird.
(b) Specifically, any one of the Oscines. -- Singing book, a book
containing music for singing; a book of tunes. -- Singing falcon or
hawk. (Zoöl.) See Chanting falcon, under Chanting. -- Singing fish
(Zoöl.), a California toadfish (Porichthys porosissimus). -- Singing
flame (Acoustics), a flame, as of hydrogen or coal gas, burning within
a tube and so adjusted as to set the air within the tube in vibration,
causing sound. The apparatus is called also chemical harmonicon. --
Singing master, a man who teaches vocal music. -- Singing school, a
school in which persons are instructed in singing.
Sing"ing*ly, adv. With sounds like singing; with a kind of tune; in a
singing tone. G. North (1575).
Sin"gle (?), a. [L. singulus, a dim. from the root in simplex simple;
cf. OE. & OF. sengle, fr. L. singulus. See Simple, and cf. Singular.]
1. One only, as distinguished from more than one; consisting of one
alone; individual; separate; as, a single star.
No single man is born with a right of controlling the opinions of
all the rest.
Pope.