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Definition of burn

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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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Stinkpot :: Stinkpot (n.) A vessel in which disinfectants are burned.

Fire-fanged :: Fire-fanged (a.) Injured as by fire; burned; -- said of manure which has lost its goodness and acquired an ashy hue in consequence of heat generated by decomposition.

Cremate :: Cremate (v. t.) To burn; to reduce to ashes by the action of fire, either directly or in an oven or retort; to incremate or incinerate; as, to cremate a corpse, instead of burying it..

Matte :: Matte (n.) A dead or dull finish, as in gilding where the gold leaf is not burnished, or in painting where the surface is purposely deprived of gloss..

Holocaust :: Holocaust (n.) Sacrifice or loss of many lives, as by the burning of a theater or a ship. [An extended use not authorized by careful writers.].

Bleak :: Bleak (a.) A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae; the blay..

Sultry :: Sultry (superl.) Very hot, burning, and oppressive; as, Libya's sultry deserts..

Guelderrose'' :: Guelderrose' (n.) A cultivated variety of a species of Viburnum (V. Opulus), bearing large bunches of white flowers; -- called also snowball tree..

Fire :: Fire (n.) Torture by burning; severe trial or affliction.

Wheel :: Wheel (n.) A firework which, while burning, is caused to revolve on an axis by the reaction of the escaping gases..

Volcano :: Volcano (n.) A mountain or hill, usually more or less conical in form, from which lava, cinders, steam, sulphur gases, and the like, are ejected; -- often popularly called a burning mountain..

Burnisher :: Burnisher (n.) One who burnishes.

Xylopyrography :: Xylopyrography (n.) The art or practice of burning pictures on wood with a hot iron; -- called also poker painting. See Poker picture, under Poker..

Fizz :: Fizz (v. i.) To make a hissing sound, as a burning fuse..

Antipyrotic :: Antipyrotic (a.) Good against burns or pyrosis.

Smoulder :: Smoulder (v. i.) To burn and smoke without flame; to waste away by a slow and supressed combustion.

Ustulation :: Ustulation (n.) The burning of wine.

Eburnine :: Eburnine (a.) Of or pertaining to ivory.

Burnettized :: Burnettized (imp. & p. p.) of Burnettiz.

Parching :: Parching (a.) Scorching; burning; drying.