Word Meanings - SAYND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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• SINGERESS
  A songstress. Wyclif.
• SINGER
  One who, or that which, singes. Specifically: One employed to singe cloth. A machine for singeing cloth.
• SINGE
  originally, to cause to sing, fr. AS. singan to sing, in allusion to the singing or hissing sound often produced when a substance is 1. To burn slightly or superficially; to burn the surface of; to burn the ends or outside of; as, to singe the
• SENGE
  To singe. Chaucer.
• MINNESINGER
  A love-singer; specifically, one of a class of German poets and musicians who flourished from about the middle of the twelfth to the middle of the fourteenth century. They were chiefly of noble birth, and made love and beauty the subjects of their
• LOSENGERIE
  Flattery; deceit; trickery. Chaucer.
• PASSENGER MILE
  A unit of measurement of the passenger transportation performed by a railroad during a given period, usually a year, the total of which consists of the sum of the miles traversed by all the passengers on the road in the period in question.
• MESSENGER
  A hawser passed round the capstan, and having its two ends lashed together to form an endless rope or chain; -- formerly used for heaving in the cable. (more info) 1. One who bears a message; the bearer of a verbal or written communication, notice,
• MASTERSINGER
  One of a class of poets which flourished in Nuremberg and some other cities of Germany in the 15th and 16th centuries. They bound themselves to observe certain arbitrary laws of rhythm.
• HISINGERITE
  A soft black, iron ore, nearly earthy, a hydrous silicate of iron.
• DISINGENUOUS
  1. Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; as, disingenuous conduct or schemes. 2. Not ingenuous; wanting in noble candor or frankness; not frank or open; uncandid; unworthily or meanly artful. So disingenuous as not to confess
• LOSENGER
  A flatterer; a deceiver; a cozener. Chaucer. To a fair pair of gallows, there to end their lives with shame, as a number of such other losengers had done. Holinshed. (more info) deceive, flatter, losenge, flattery, Pr. lauzenga, fr. L. laus
• MEISTERSINGER
  See MASTERSINGER
• PASSENGER
  1. A passer or passer-by; a wayfarer. Shak. 2. A traveler by some established conveyance, as a coach, steamboat, railroad train, etc. Passenger falcon , a migratory hawk. Ainsworth. -- Passenger pigeon , the common wild pigeon of North America
• DISINGENUITY
  Disingenuousness. Clarendon.
• PASSENGER MILEAGE
  Passenger miles collectively; the total number of miles traveled by passengers on a railroad during a given period.