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A riotous fellow; a roaring boy. A lady to turn roarer, and break glasses. Massinger.

A singers' union; an association of singers or singing clubs, esp. German.

A festival of singers; a German singing festival.

obs. p. p. of Senge, to singe. Chaucer.

One of the ancient Scandinavian poets and historiographers; a reciter and singer of heroic poems, etc., among the Norsemen; more rarely, a bard of any of the ancient Teutonic tribes. [Written also skald.] A war song such as was of yore chanted on the field of battle by the scalds of the yet heathen Saxons. Sir W. Scott…

To cut with scissors or shears; to prepare with the aid of scissors. Massinger.

eat as changes color and texture without consuming; as, to scorch linen. Summer drouth or singed air never scorch thy tresses fair. Milton.

Dizziness with dimness of sight. [Obs.] Massinger.

To void excrement. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Massinger.

A pirate. [R.] Massinger.

To singe. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A set of seven persons or objects; as, a septet of singers.

of Senge, to singe. Chaucer.

d pastered with shadows That under other men's protection break in Without invitement. Massinger. Shadow of death, darkness or gloom like that caused by the presence or the impending of death. Ps. xxiii. 4.

irgin, and consider This Persian shape laid by, and she appearing In a Greekish dress. Messinger.

A treble singer.

A singer, commonly a woman, with a treble voice.

" Spenser. "A sort of steers." Spenser. "A sort of doves." Dryden. "A sort of rogues." Massinger. A boy, a child, and we a sort of us, Vowed against his voyage. Chapman.

To forestall; to anticipitate. Having This not to be stall'd by my report. Massinger.

; to accord. Doubt me not; by heaven, I will do nothing But what may stand with honor. Massinger.