Scorch, to burn on the surface, to parch: “his hot heart, which fond desire doth s.” Lucr. 314. “the appetite of her eye did seem to s. me up like a burning-glass,” Wiv. I, 3, 74. “to s. your face,” Err. V, 183. “within the --ed veins of one new-burned,” John III, 1, 278. “thy burning car never had --ed the earth,” H6C II, 6, 13. In Mcb. III, 2, 13 O. Edd. --ed, M. Edd. scotched.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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