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Calcination :: Calcination (n.) The act or process of disintegrating a substance, or rendering it friable by the action of heat, esp. by the expulsion of some volatile matter, as when carbonic and acid is expelled from carbonate of calcium in the burning of limestone in order to make lime..

Dysodile :: Dysodile (n.) An impure earthy or coaly bitumen, which emits a highly fetid odor when burning..

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..

Sun-burner :: Sunburn (n.) The burning or discoloration produced on the skin by the heat of the sun; tan.

Moxa :: Moxa (n.) A soft woolly mass prepared from the young leaves of Artemisia Chinensis, and used as a cautery by burning it on the skin; hence, any substance used in a like manner, as cotton impregnated with niter, amadou..

Concremation :: Concremation (n.) The act of burning different things together.

Stigma :: Stigma (v. t.) A mark made with a burning iron; a brand.

Bitumen :: Bitumen (n.) Mineral pitch; a black, tarry substance, burning with a bright flame; Jew's pitch. It occurs as an abundant natural product in many places, as on the shores of the Dead and Caspian Seas. It is used in cements, in the construction of pavements, etc. See Asphalt..

Laving :: Laving (v. i.) Ignited; glowing with heat; burning; live.

Annealing :: Annealing (n.) The burning of metallic colors into glass, earthenware, etc..

Flaming :: Flaming (a.) Ardent; passionate; burning with zeal; irrepressibly earnest; as, a flaming proclomation or harangue..

Arson :: Arson (n.) The malicious burning of a dwelling house or outhouse of another man, which by the common law is felony; the malicious and voluntary firing of a building or ship..

Ardent :: Ardent (a.) Hot or burning; causing a sensation of burning; fiery; as, ardent spirits, that is, distilled liquors; an ardent fever..

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

Fervent :: Fervent (a.) Hot; glowing; boiling; burning; as, a fervent summer..

Funeral :: Funeral (n.) The solemn rites used in the disposition of a dead human body, whether such disposition be by interment, burning, or otherwise; esp., the ceremony or solemnization of interment; obsequies; burial; -- formerly used in the plural..

Inflamed :: Inflamed (p. a.) Represented as burning, or as adorned with tongues of flame..

Combustion :: Combustion (n.) The state of burning.

Pachak :: Pachak (n.) The fragrant roots of the Saussurea Costus, exported from India to China, and used for burning as incense. It is supposed to be the costus of the ancients..

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

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