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a. 1. Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; as, disingenuous conduct or schemes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not ingenuous; wanting in noble candor or frankness; not frank or open; uncandid; unworthily or meanly artful. [ 1913 Webster ]

So disingenuous as not to confess them [ faults ]. Pope.

-- Dis`in*gen"u*ous*ly, adv. T. Warton. -- Dis`in*gen"u*ous*ness, n. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Named after W. Hisinger, a Swedish mineralogist. ] (Min.) A soft black, iron ore, nearly earthy, a hydrous silicate of iron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ A translation of G. meistersänger. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ G. ] See Mastersinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G., fr. minne love + singen to sing. ] 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 verses. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Singed p. pr. & vb. n. Singeing ] [ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, . . .
Singe my white head! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

I singed the toes of an ape through a burning glass. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A burning of the surface; a slight burn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Singe. ] One who, or that which, singes. Specifically: (a) One employed to singe cloth. (b) A machine for singeing cloth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Sing. ] One who sings; especially, one whose profession is to sing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A songstress. [ Obs. ] Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]