Scorch

·vi To burn or be burnt.

II. Scorch ·vi To be burnt on the surface; to be parched; to be dried up.

III. Scorch ·vt To Burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.

IV. Scorch ·vt To affect painfully with heat, or as with heat; to dry up with heat; to affect as by heat.

V. Scorch ·add. ·vi To ride or drive at great, usually at excessive, speed;

— applied chiefly to automobilists and bicyclists. [Colloq.].

VI. Scorch ·vt 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.