In most instances the electrical fluid leaves its mark by Singeing the hair, or by inflicting wounds, burns, or blisters.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler
The Major is becoming conscious of a smell like Joan of Arc at the beginning of the entertainment, when her mother comes in on a high moral platform, and taxes her with Singeing, and dissolves the parliament, and rings to take away breakfast, and forecasts an open window the minute the Major has gone.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
He had finished this process, and, suspending it by one wing in an attitude of patient suffering, was Singeing it with a blazing paper, when Melissa appeared.
"Stories of the Foot-hills"
Margaret Collier Graham