Definition of burn

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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..

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Solanine :: Solanine (n.) A poisonous alkaloid glucoside extracted from the berries of common nightshade (Solanum nigrum), and of bittersweet, and from potato sprouts, as a white crystalline substance having an acrid, burning taste; -- called also solonia, and solanina..
Kiln :: Kiln (n.) A large stove or oven; a furnace of brick or stone, or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, or drying anything; as, a kiln for baking or hardening earthen vessels; a kiln for drying grain, meal, lumber, etc.; a kiln for calcining limestone..
Flagrate :: Flagrate (v. t.) To burn.
Burner :: Burner (n.) One who, or that which, burns or sets fire to anything..
Polish :: Polish (v. t.) To make smooth and glossy, usually by friction; to burnish; to overspread with luster; as, to polish glass, marble, metals, etc..
Wreck :: Wreck (v. t.) The ruins of a ship stranded; a ship dashed against rocks or land, and broken, or otherwise rendered useless, by violence and fracture; as, they burned the wreck..
Fizz :: Fizz (v. i.) To make a hissing sound, as a burning fuse..
Burn :: Burn (n.) A small stream.
Sunburst :: Sunburning (n.) Sunburn; tan.
Inustion :: Inustion (n.) The act of burning or branding.
Agallochum :: Agallochum (n.) A soft, resinous wood (Aquilaria Agallocha) of highly aromatic smell, burnt by the orientals as a perfume. It is called also agalwood and aloes wood. The name is also given to some other species..
Bleak :: Bleak (a.) A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae; the blay..
Ablen :: Ablen () A small fresh-water fish (Leuciscus alburnus); the bleak.
Serrator :: Serrator (n.) The ivory gull (Larus eburneus).
Parching :: Parching (a.) Scorching; burning; drying.
Fireworm :: Fireworm (n.) The larva of a small tortricid moth which eats the leaves of the cranberry, so that the vines look as if burned; -- called also cranberry worm..
Hussite :: Hussite (n.) A follower of John Huss, the Bohemian reformer, who was adjudged a heretic and burnt alive in 1415..
Limekiln :: Limekiln (n.) A kiln or furnace in which limestone or shells are burned and reduced to lime.
Mastic :: Mastic (n.) A kind of cement composed of burnt clay, litharge, and linseed oil, used for plastering walls, etc..
Quench :: Quench (v. t.) To extinguish; to overwhelm; to make an end of; -- said of flame and fire, of things burning, and figuratively of sensations and emotions; as, to quench flame; to quench a candle; to quench thirst, love, hate, etc..
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