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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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Detonate :: Detonate (v. t.) To cause to explode; to cause to burn or inflame with a sudden report.

Ustulation :: Ustulation (n.) The act of burning or searing.

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..

Burnie :: Burnie (n.) A small brook.

Umber :: Umber (n.) A brown or reddish pigment used in both oil and water colors, obtained from certain natural clays variously colored by the oxides of iron and manganese. It is commonly heated or burned before being used, and is then called burnt umber; when not heated, it is called raw umber. See Burnt umber, below..

Enchafing :: Enchafing (n.) Heating; burning.

Caustical :: Caustical (a.) Capable of destroying the texture of anything or eating away its substance by chemical action; burning; corrosive; searing.

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

Pyrophone :: Pyrophone (n.) A musical instrument in which the tones are produced by flames of hydrogen, or illuminating gas, burning in tubes of different sizes and lengths..

Clinker :: Clinker (n.) Scoria or vitrified incombustible matter, formed in a grate or furnace where anthracite coal in used; vitrified or burnt matter ejected from a volcano; slag..

Burnisher :: Burnisher (n.) A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses..

Incense :: Incense (v. t.) To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn.

Blue :: Blue (superl.) Pale, without redness or glare, -- said of a flame; hence, of the color of burning brimstone, betokening the presence of ghosts or devils; as, the candle burns blue; the air was blue with oaths..

Smoulder :: Smoulder (v. i.) To exist in a state of suppressed or smothered activity; to burn inwardly; as, a smoldering feud..

Combustible :: Combustible (a.) Capable of taking fire and burning; apt to catch fire; inflammable.

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

Burn :: Burn (v. i.) In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought..

Tip :: Tip (n.) An end piece or part; a piece, as a cap, nozzle, ferrule, or point, applied to the extreme end of anything; as, a tip for an umbrella, a shoe, a gas burner, etc..

Outburn :: Outburn (v. t. & i.) To burn entirely; to be consumed.

Whitten Tree :: Whitten tree () Either of two shrubs (Viburnum Lantana, and V. Opulus), so called on account of their whitish branches..