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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Burn \Burn\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Burned} (?) or {Burnt} (?); p.
pr & vb n. {Burning}.] [OE. bernen, brennen, v. t., early
confused with beornen birnen, v. i., AS b[ae]rnan, bernan
v. t., birnan v. i.; akin to OS brinnan, OFries barna,
berna, OHG. brinnan, brennan G. brennen, OD bernen, D.
branden, Dan. br[ae]nde, Sw br["a]nna, brinna Icel. brenna,
Goth. brinnan, brannjan (in comp.), and possibly to E.
fervent.]
1. To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of
heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as to burn
up wood. ``We'll burn his body in the holy place.''
--Shak.
2. To injure by fire or heat; to change destructively some
property or properties of by undue exposure to fire or
heat; to scorch; to scald; to blister; to singe; to char;
to sear; as to burn steel in forging; to burn one's face
in the sun; the sun burns the grass.
3. To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the
action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to
destroy or change some property or properties of by
exposure to fire or heat in due degree for obtaining a
desired residuum, product, or effect; to bake; as to burn
clay in making bricks or pottery; to burn wood so as to
produce charcoal; to burn limestone for the lime.
4. To make or produce, as an effect or result, by the
application of fire or heat; as to burn a hole; to burn
charcoal; to burn letters into a block.
5. To consume, injure, or change the condition of as if by
action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does
as to burn the mouth with pepper.
This tyrant fever burns me up --Shak.
This dry sorrow burns up all my tears. --Dryden.
When the cold north wind bloweth, . . . it devoureth
the mountains, and burneth the wilderness, and
consumeth the grass as fire. --Ecclus.
xliii. 20, 21.
6. (Surg.) To apply a cautery to to cauterize.
7. (Chem.) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active
agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize; as
a man burns a certain amount of carbon at each
respiration; to burn iron in oxygen.
{To burn}, {To burn together}, as two surfaces of metal
(Engin.), to fuse and unite them by pouring over them a
quantity of the same metal in a liquid state.
{To burn a bowl} (Game of Bowls), to displace it
accidentally, the bowl so displaced being said to be
burned.
{To burn daylight}, to light candles before it is dark; to
waste time; to perform superfluous actions. --Shak.
{To burn one's fingers}, to get one's self into unexpected
trouble, as by interfering the concerns of others
speculation, etc
{To burn out}, to destroy or obliterate by burning. ``Must
you with hot irons burn out mine eyes?'' --Shak.
{To be burned out}, to suffer loss by fire, as the burning of
one's house, store, or shop, with the contents.
{To burn up}, {To burn down}, to burn entirely.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Burning \Burn"ing\, a.
1. That burns; being on fire; excessively hot; fiery.
2. Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement;
powerful; as burning zeal.
Like a young hound upon a burning scent. --Dryden.
{Burning bush} (Bot.), an ornamental shrub ({Euonymus
atropurpureus}), bearing a crimson berry.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Burning \Burn"ing\, n.
The act of consuming by fire or heat, or of subjecting to the
effect of fire or heat; the state of being on fire or
excessively heated.
{Burning fluid}, any volatile illuminating oil, as the
lighter petroleums (naphtha, benzine), or oil of
turpentine (camphine), but esp. a mixture of the latter
with alcohol.
{Burning glass}, a convex lens of considerable size, used for
producing an intense heat by converging the sun's rays to
a focus.
{Burning house} (Metal.), the furnace in which tin ores are
calcined, to sublime the sulphur and arsenic from the
pyrites. --Weale.
{Burning mirror}, a concave mirror, or a combination of plane
mirrors, used for the same purpose as a burning glass.
Syn: Combustion; fire; conflagration; flame; blaze.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
burning
adj 1: producing or having a painfully hot sensation; "begged for
water to soothe his burning throat"
2: intensely hot; "a burning fever"; "the burning sand" [syn: {burning(a)}]
3: characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an ardent
lover"; "a burning enthusiasm"; "a fervent desire to
change society"; "a fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory"; "an
impassioned appeal"; "a torrid love affair" [syn: {ardent},
{burning(a)}, {fervent}, {fervid}, {fiery}, {impassioned},
{perfervid}, {torrid}]
4: lighted up by or as by fire or flame; "forests set ablaze
(or afire) by lightning"; "even the car's tires were
aflame"; "a night aflare with fireworks"; "candles alight
on the tables"; "blazing logs in the fireplace"; "a
burning cigarette"; "a flaming crackling fire"; "houses on
fire" [syn: {ablaze(p)}, {afire(p)}, {aflame(p)}, {aflare(p)},
{alight(p)}, {blazing}, {flaming}, {on fire(p)}]
5: of immediate import; "burning issues of the day" [syn: {burning(a)}]
6: consuming fuel; used in combination; "coal-burning (or
wood-burning) stoves"
n 1: the act of burning something "the burning of leaves was
prohibited by a town ordinance" [syn: {combustion}]
2: pain that feels hot as if it were on fire [syn: {burn}]
3: a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give
heat and light [syn: {combustion}]
4: execution by electricity [syn: {electrocution}]
5: execution by fire [syn: {burning at the stake}]
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