Adjourn :: Adjourn (v. t.) To put off or defer to another day, or indefinitely; to postpone; to close or suspend for the day; -- commonly said of the meeting, or the action, of convened body; as, to adjourn the meeting; to adjourn a debate..

Adjourn :: Adjourn (v. i.) To suspend business for a time, as from one day to another, or for a longer period, or indefinitely; usually, to suspend public business, as of legislatures and courts, or other convened bodies; as, congress adjourned at four o'clock; the court adjourned without day..

Adjournal :: Adjournal (n.) Adjournment; postponement.

Adjourned :: Adjourned (imp. & p. p.) of Adjour.

Adjourning :: Adjourning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adjour.

Adjournment :: Adjournment (n.) The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day..

Adjournment :: Adjournment (n.) The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business.

Alburn :: Alburn (n.) The bleak, a small European fish having scales of a peculiarly silvery color which are used in making artificial pearls..

Alburnous :: Alburnous (a.) Of or pertaining to alburnum; of the alburnum; as, alburnous substances..

Alburnum :: Alburnum (n.) The white and softer part of wood, between the inner bark and the hard wood or duramen; sapwood..

Almond Furnace :: Almond furnace () A kind of furnace used in refining, to separate the metal from cinders and other foreign matter..

Ash-furnace :: Ash-furnace (n.) Alt. of Ash-ove.

Auburn :: Auburn (a.) Flaxen-colored.

Auburn :: Auburn (a.) Reddish brown.

Azurn :: Azurn (a.) Azure.

Base-burner :: Base-burner (n.) A furnace or stove in which the fuel is contained in a hopper or chamber, and is fed to the fire as the lower stratum is consumed..

Bemourn :: Bemourn (v. t.) To mourn over.

Blackburnian Warbler :: Blackburnian warbler () A beautiful warbler of the United States (Dendroica Blackburniae). The male is strongly marked with orange, yellow, and black on the head and neck, and has an orange-yellow breast..

Bourn :: Bourn (v.) Alt. of Bourn.

Bourn :: Bourn (n.) Alt. of Bourn.

Bourne :: Bourne (v.) A stream or rivulet; a burn.

Bourne :: Bourne (n.) A bound; a boundary; a limit. Hence: Point aimed at; goal.

Bournless :: Bournless (a.) Without a bourn or limit.

Bournonite :: Bournonite (n.) A mineral of a steel-gray to black color and metallic luster, occurring crystallized, often in twin crystals shaped like cogwheels (wheel ore), also massive. It is a sulphide of antimony, lead, and copper..

Bournous :: Bournous (n.) See Burnoose.

Bude Burner :: Bude burner () A burner consisting of two or more concentric Argand burners (the inner rising above the outer) and a central tube by which oxygen gas or common air is supplied.

Bunsen''s Burner :: Bunsen's burner () See under Battery, and Burner..

Burn :: Burn (v. t.) To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood..

Burn :: Burn (v. t.) 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..

Burn :: Burn (v. t.) 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..

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