Definition of "singe"

singe¹

/sɪnd͡ʒ/

verb
third-person singular simple present singes, present participle singeing, simple past and past participle singed
1. (transitive) To burn slightly.
  Quotations
  made combustible by Flame They treat of, we have pretty Game, For they their own Tail Singe, to save Us
  1702, Sir Roger L’Estrange, “The Firﬆ Viſion of the Algouazil (or Catchpole) Poſſeﬆ”, in The Viſions of Dom Franciſco de Quevedo-Villegas'‎
2. (transitive) To remove the nap of (cloth), by passing it rapidly over a red-hot bar, or over a flame, preliminary to dyeing it.
3. (transitive) To remove the hair or down from (a plucked chicken, etc.) by passing it over a flame.
noun
plural singes
1. A burning of the surface; a slight burn.

singe²

verb
third-person singular simple present singes, present participle singing, simple past sange, past participle sunge
1. Obsolete form of sing.
  Quotations
  Then ſange Iudith this ſonge vnto the LORDE: Begynne vnto the LORDE vpon the tabrettes, ſinge vnto the LORDE vpon the cymbals.
  1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg: Eucharius Cervicornus and J. Soter?], Judith xvj:[1–2], folio xxix, verso
  Lo I the man, whoſe Muſe whilome did maske, / As time her taught in lowly Sheapards weeds, / Am now enforſt a far unfitter taske, / For trumpets ſterne to change mine oaten reeds, / And ſinge of Knights and Ladies gentle deeds […]
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, page 1
  [H]ere’s a couple of Syrenicall raſcals ſhall inchaunt yee: What ſhall they ſinge my good Lorde?
  c. 1603 (date written), Iohn Marston, The Malcontent, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for William Aspley, […], published 1604, Act III, scene iv