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5. To cry out; to complain. [Obs.]

They should sing if thet they were bent.

Chaucer.

Sing (?), v. t. 1. To utter with musical inflections or modulations of voice.

And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb.

Rev. xv. 3.

And in the darkness sing your carol of high praise.

Keble.

2. To celebrate is song; to give praises to in verse; to relate or rehearse in numbers, verse, or poetry. Milton.

Arms and the man I sing.

Dryden.

The last, the happiest British king, Whom thou shalt paint or I shall sing.

Addison.

3. To influence by singing; to lull by singing; as, to sing a child to sleep.

4. To accompany, or attend on, with singing.

I heard them singing home the bride.

Longfellow.

Singe (snj), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Singed (snjd); p. pr. & vb. n. Singeing (snj"ng).] [OE. sengen, AS. sengan in besengan (akin to D. zengen, G. sengen), originally, to cause to sing, fr. AS. singan to sing, in allusion to the singing or hissing sound often produced when a substance is singed, or slightly burned. See Sing.] 1. To burn slightly or superficially; to burn the surface of; to burn the ends or outside of; as, to singe the hair or the skin.

You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, . . . Singe my white head!

Shak.

I singed the toes of an ape through a burning glass.

L'Estrange.

2. (a) To remove the nap of (cloth), by passing it rapidly over a red-hot bar, or over a flame, preliminary to dyeing it. (b) To remove the hair or down from (a plucked chicken or the like) by passing it over a flame.

Singe, n. A burning of the surface; a slight burn.

Sin"ger (sn"jr), n. [From Singe.] One who, or that which, singes. Specifically: (a) One employed to singe cloth. (b) A machine for singeing cloth.

Sing"er (?), n. [From Sing.] One who sings; especially, one whose profession is to sing.

Sing"er*ess, n. A songstress. [Obs.] Wyclif.