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3 definitions found 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]: Burnt \Burnt\, p. p. & a. Consumed with or as with fire; scorched or dried, as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun. {Burnt ear}, a black, powdery fungus which destroys grain. See {Smut}. {Burnt offering}, something offered and burnt on an altar, as an atonement for sin; a sacrifice. The offerings of the Jews were a clean animal, as an ox a calf, a goat, or a sheep; or some vegetable substance, as bread, or ears of wheat or barley. Called also {burnt sacrifice}. --[2 Sam. xxiv. 22.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: burnt adj 1: ruined by overcooking; "she served us underdone bacon and burnt buscuits" [syn: {burned}] 2: having undergone oxidation: "burned powder" [syn: {burned}] 3: treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point; "burnt sienna" [syn: {burned}] 4: hardened by subjecting to intense heat; "baked bricks"; "burned bricks" [syn: {baked}, {burned}] 5: destroyed or badly damaged by fire; "a row of burned houses"; "a charred bit of burnt wood"; "barricaded the street with burnt-out cars" [syn: {burned}, {burned-out}, {burnt-out}]
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