Definition of burning

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Burning (a.) Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful; as, burning zeal..

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Stigma :: Stigma (v. t.) A mark made with a burning iron; a brand.
Clavellated :: Clavellated (a.) Said of potash, probably in reference to its having been obtained from billets of wood by burning..
Chatwood :: Chatwood (n.) Little sticks; twigs for burning; fuel.
Vestal :: Vestal (a.) A virgin consecrated to Vesta, and to the service of watching the sacred fire, which was to be perpetually kept burning upon her altar..
Match :: Match (n.) Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp., a small strip or splint of wood dipped at one end in a substance which can be easily ignited by friction, as a preparation of phosphorus or chlorate of potassium..
Waahoo :: Waahoo (n.) The burning bush; -- said to be called after a quack medicine made from it.
Cardialgy :: Cardialgy (n.) A burning or gnawing pain, or feeling of distress, referred to the region of the heart, accompanied with cardiac palpitation; heartburn. It is usually a symptom of indigestion..
Breeze :: Breeze (n.) Refuse left in the process of making coke or burning charcoal.
Sulphurize :: Sulphuring (n.) Exposure to the fumes of burning sulphur, as in bleaching; the process of bleaching by exposure to the fumes of sulphur..
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..
Glow :: Glow (v. i.) To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn..
Flapdragon :: Flapdragon (n.) A game in which the players catch raisins out burning brandy, and swallow them blazing..
Holocaust :: Holocaust (n.) Sacrifice or loss of many lives, as by the burning of a theater or a ship. [An extended use not authorized by careful writers.].
Grate :: Grate (n.) A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning..
Pit :: Pit (n.) A large hole in the ground from which material is dug or quarried; as, a stone pit; a gravel pit; or in which material is made by burning; as, a lime pit; a charcoal pit..
Annealing :: Annealing (n.) The burning of metallic colors into glass, earthenware, etc..
Dehorn :: Dehorn (v. t.) To deprive of horns; to prevent the growth of the horns of (cattle) by burning their ends soon after they start. See Dishorn.
Burning :: Burning (n.) The act of consuming by fire or heat, or of subjecting to the effect of fire or heat; the state of being on fire or excessively heated..
Laving :: Laving (v. i.) Ignited; glowing with heat; burning; live.
Scottering :: Scottering (n.) The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest.
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