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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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Frankfort Black :: Frankfort black () A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc..

Sunburning :: Sun-burner (n.) A circle or cluster of gas-burners for lighting and ventilating public buildings.

Burn :: Burn (v. i.) To have a condition, quality, appearance, sensation, or emotion, as if on fire or excessively heated; to act or rage with destructive violence; to be in a state of lively emotion or strong desire; as, the face burns; to burn with fever..

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

Sunburning :: Sunburnt () of Sunbur.

Out :: Out (a.) Beyond the limit of existence, continuance, or supply; to the end; completely; hence, in, or into, a condition of extinction, exhaustion, completion; as, the fuel, or the fire, has burned out..

Picking :: Picking (n.) Overburned bricks.

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

Pyre :: Pyre (n.) A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which the dead are burned; hence, any pile to be burnt..

Rochelime :: Rochelime (n.) Lime in the lump after it is burned; quicklime.

Caramel :: Caramel (n.) Burnt sugar; a brown or black porous substance obtained by heating sugar. It is soluble in water, and is used for coloring spirits, gravies, etc..

Inflame :: Inflame (v. t.) To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow..

Eburnation :: Eburnation (n.) A condition of bone cartilage occurring in certain diseases of these tissues, in which they acquire an unnatural density, and come to resemble ivory..

Pernicious :: Pernicious (a.) Quick; swift (to burn).

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..

Burned :: Burned (p. p. & a.) See Burnt.

Wick :: Wick (n.) A bundle of fibers, or a loosely twisted or braided cord, tape, or tube, usually made of soft spun cotton threads, which by capillary attraction draws up a steady supply of the oil in lamps, the melted tallow or wax in candles, or other material used for illumination, in small successive portions, to be burned..

Thurification :: Thurification (n.) The act of fuming with incense, or the act of burning incense..

Burn :: Burn (n.) A disease in vegetables. See Brand, n., 6..

Bunsen''s Battery :: Bunsen's battery () Alt. of Bunsen's burne.