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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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Flatting :: Flatting (n.) A method of preserving gilding unburnished, by touching with size..

Caburn :: Caburn (n.) A small line made of spun yarn, to bind or worm cables, seize tackles, etc..

Horn :: Horn (n.) One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.

Fire :: Fire (n.) The burning of a house or town; a conflagration.

Gassing :: Gassing (n.) The process of passing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibers; any similar process of singeing.

Burnettize :: Burnettize (v. t.) To subject (wood, fabrics, etc.) to a process of saturation in a solution of chloride of zinc, to prevent decay; -- a process invented by Sir William Burnett..

Parch :: Parch (v. i.) To become scorched or superficially burnt; to be very dry.

Earthen :: Earthen (a.) Made of earth; made of burnt or baked clay, or other like substances; as, an earthen vessel or pipe..

Thorium :: Thorium (n.) A metallic element found in certain rare minerals, as thorite, pyrochlore, monazite, etc., and isolated as an infusible gray metallic powder which burns in the air and forms thoria; -- formerly called also thorinum. Symbol Th. Atomic weight 232.0..

Eschar :: Eschar (n.) A dry slough, crust, or scab, which separates from the healthy part of the body, as that produced by a burn, or the application of caustics..

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

Heartburning :: Heartburning (n.) Same as Heartburn.

Burned :: Burned (imp. & p. p.) of Bur.

Cense :: Cense (v. t.) To perfume with odors from burning gums and spices.

Anthracomancy :: Anthracomancy (n.) Divination by inspecting a burning coal.

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

Sunburn :: Sunburn (v. t.) To burn or discolor by the sun; to tan.

Singe :: Singe (n.) A burning of the surface; a slight burn.

Deflagrable :: Deflagrable (a.) Burning with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; hence, slightly explosive; liable to snap and crackle when heated, as salt..

Touch-paper :: Touch-paper (n.) Paper steeped in saltpeter, which burns slowly, and is used as a match for firing gunpowder, and the like..