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Base-burner :: Base-burner (n.) A furnace or stove in which the fuel is contained in a hopper or chamber, and is fed to the fire as the lower stratum is consumed..

Consumer :: Consumer (n.) One who, or that which, consumes; as, the consumer of food..

Moth :: Moth (n.) Anything which gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing..

Canker :: Canker (v. t.) To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.

Grange :: Grange (n.) An association of farmers, designed to further their interests, aud particularly to bring producers and consumers, farmers and manufacturers, into direct commercial relations, without intervention of middlemen or traders. The first grange was organized in 1867..

Excise :: Excise (n.) In inland duty or impost operating as an indirect tax on the consumer, levied upon certain specified articles, as, tobacco, ale, spirits, etc., grown or manufactured in the country. It is also levied to pursue certain trades and deal in certain commodities. Certain direct taxes (as, in England, those on carriages, servants, plate, armorial bearings, etc.), are included in the excise. Often used adjectively; as, excise duties; excise law; excise system..

Employment :: Employment (n.) That which engages or occupies; that which consumes time or attention; office or post of business; service; as, agricultural employments; mechanical employments; public employments; in the employment of government..

Phenix :: Phenix (n.) A bird fabled to exist single, to be consumed by fire by its own act, and to rise again from its ashes. Hence, an emblem of immortality..

Incomsumable :: Incomsumable (a.) Not consumable; incapable of being consumed, wasted, or spent..

Expend :: Expend (v. i.) To be laid out, used, or consumed..

Corrupt :: Corrupt (v. t.) To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless..

Incinerate :: Incinerate () Reduced to ashes by burning; thoroughly consumed.

Consumable :: Consumable (a.) Capable of being consumed; that may be destroyed, dissipated, wasted, or spent..

Waster :: Waster (v. t.) One who, or that which, wastes; one who squanders; one who consumes or expends extravagantly; a spendthrift; a prodigal..

Consumed :: Consumed (imp. & p. p.) of Consum.

Slattern :: Slattern (v. t.) To consume carelessly or wastefully; to waste; -- with away.

Zinc :: Zinc (n.) An abundant element of the magnesium-cadmium group, extracted principally from the minerals zinc blende, smithsonite, calamine, and franklinite, as an easily fusible bluish white metal, which is malleable, especially when heated. It is not easily oxidized in moist air, and hence is used for sheeting, coating galvanized iron, etc. It is used in making brass, britannia, and other alloys, and is also largely consumed in electric batteries. Symbol Zn. Atomic weight 64.9..

Combust :: Combust (a.) Burnt; consumed.

Sacrifice :: Sacrifice (v. i.) To make offerings to God, or to a deity, of things consumed on the altar; to offer sacrifice..

Talk :: Talk (v. t.) To consume or spend in talking; -- often followed by away; as, to talk away an evening..

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