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Burning; parching or shriveling with heat. -- Scorch"ing*ly, adv. -- Scorch"ing*ness, n.

A vessel for holding hot water in which another vessel may be heated without scorching its contents; -- used for warming or preparing food or pharmaceutical preparations.

To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour.

rried woman; a gerl; a maiden. With her train of damsels she was gone, In shady walks the scorching heat to shum. Dryden. Sometimes a troop of damsels glad, . . . Goes by to towered Cameleot. Tennyson.

of the skin or body in fever, etc. Else how had the world . . . Avoided pinching cold and scorching heat! Milton.

; to obscure; to darken; to tan; as, features imbrowned by exposure. The mountain mass by scorching skies imbrowned. Byron.

Impregnated; made prolific. The scorching ray Here pierceth not, impregnate with disease. Byron.

brightness; glitter. The right mark and very true luster of the diamond. Sir T. More. The scorching sun was mounted high, In all its luster, to the noonday sky. Addison.

Scorching; burning; drying. "Summer's parching heat." Shak. -- Parch"ing*ly, adv.

p. Scatter a little mungy straw or fern amongst your seedlings, to prevent the roots from scorching. Mortimer.

To subject to scorching heat, so as to drive off volatile ingredients; to roast, as ores.

Violenty hot; drying or scorching with heat; burning; parching. "Torrid heat." Milton. Torrid zone (Geog.), that space or board belt of the earth, included between the tropics, over which the sun is vertical at some period of every year, and the heat is always great.