Scorch
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( v. i.) To ride or drive at great, usually at excessive, speed; - applied chiefly to automobilists and bicyclists. [Colloq.]
(2): ( v. t.) To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.
(3): ( v. t.) 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.
(4): ( v. t.) To affect painfully with heat, or as with heat; to dry up with heat; to affect as by heat.
(5): ( v. i.) To be burnt on the surface; to be parched; to be dried up.
(6): ( v. i.) To burn or be burnt.
King James Dictionary [2]
1. To burn superficially to subject to a degree of heat that changes the color of a thing, or both the color and texture of the surface. Fire will scorch linen or cotton very speedily in extremely cold weather. 2. To burn to affect painfully with heat. Scorched with the burning sun or burning sands of Africa.
Scorch, To be burnt on the surface to be parched to be dried up.
Scatter a little mungy straw and fern among your seedlings, to prevent the roots from scorching.
