scorcher
    n 1: an extremely hot day
    2: a very hard hit ball [syn: scorcher, screamer]

Scorch \Scorch\, v. i.
   1. To be burnt on the surface; to be parched; to be dried up.
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            Scatter a little mungy straw or fern amongst your
            seedlings, to prevent the roots from scorching.
                                                  --Mortimer.
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   2. To burn or be burnt.
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            He laid his long forefinger on the scarlet letter,
            which forthwith seemed to scorch into Hester's
            breast, as if it had been red hot.    --Hawthorne.
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   3. To ride or drive at great, usually at excessive, speed; --
      applied chiefly to automobilists and bicyclists. [Colloq.]
      -- Scorch"er, n. [Colloq.]

scorcher \scorch"er\
   a very hot day. [Informal]
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