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Burn
BURN, v.t. pret. and pp. burned or burnt. [L. pruna, and perhaps, furnus, fornaz, a furnace. The primary sense is, to rage, to act with violent excitement.]
1. To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; frequently with up; as, to burn up wood.
2. To expel the volatile parts and reduce to charcoal by fire; as, to burn wood into coal. Hence, in popular language, to burn a kiln of wood, is to char the wood.
3. To cleanse of soot by burning; to inflame; as, to burn a chimney; an extensive use of the word.
4. To harden in the fire; to bake or harden by heat; as, to burn bricks or a brick kiln.
5. To scorch; to affect by heat; as, to burn the clothes or the legs by the fire; to burn meat or bread in cookery.
6. To injure by fire; to affect the flesh by heat.
7. To dry up or dissipate; with up; as, to burn up tears.
8. To dry excessively; to cause to wither by heat; as,the sun burns the grass or plants.
9. To heat or inflame; to affect with excessive stimulus; as, ardent spirits burn the stomach.
10. To affect with heat in cookery, so as to give the food a disagreeable taste. Hence the phrase burnt to.
11. To calcine with heat or fire; to expel the volatile matter from substances, so that they are easily pulverized; as, to burn oyster shells, or lime-stone.
12. To affect with excess of heat; as, the fever burns a patient.
13. To subject to the action of fire; to heat or dry; as, to burn colors.
To burn up, to consume entirely by fire.
To burn out, to burn till the fuel is all consumed.
BURN, v.i. To be on fire; to flame; as, the mount burned with fire.
1. To shine; to sparkle.
O prince! O wherefore burn your eyes?
2. To be inflamed with passion or desire; as, to burn with anger or love.
3. To act with destructive violence, as fire.
Shall thy wrath burn like fire?
4. To be in commotion; to rage with destructive violence.
The groan still deepens and the combat burns.
5. To be heated; to be in a glow; as, the face burns.
6. To be affected with a sensation of heat, pain or acidity; as, the heart burns.
7. To feel excess of heat; as, the flesh burns by a fire; a patient burns with a fever.
To burn out, to burn till the fuel is exhausted and the fire ceases.
BURN, n. A hurt or injury of the flesh caused by the action of fire.
1. The operation of burning or baking, as in brickmaking; as, they have a good burn.
burn appears in definitions for these words:
Actual Adure Adust Adusted Adustion Aguish Altar Ambustion Ampelite Anthracite Anthrax Anticausotic Apatite Apostolics Aptitude Ardency Ardent Arson Ashes Asphaltum Atonement Ball Barbadoes-cherry Barilla Basking-shark Bdellium Beacon Belemnite Betle Bister Blaze Blister Blow Blow-pipe Bourn Boutisale Bovey-coal Brand Bream Bren Brick Brickkiln Bright-burning Brisk Brun Burn Burnable Burned Burner Burnet Burning Burnish Burnoose Burnt Burnt-offering Cadmean Calid Calx Candle Canoe Carboncle Carcass Caustic Cauterization Cauterize Cauterized Cauterizing Cautery Caxou Cense Censer Char-woman Charcoal Chark Chimney Clamp Clear Coal Colly Combustibility Combustible Combustibleness Concremation Conflagrant Conflagration Considerable Consumed Consuming Consumption Cork Cost Crackle Cremation Culm Cupel Damage Dark Deflagrability Deflagrable Deflagrate Deflagration Dentifrice Dephlegmate Dephlogisticate Destroy Detonate Detonated Detonize Diacaustic Disgorge Dull Dysodile Ebony Effigy Egress Empyreuma Empyreumatic Empyrosis Encaustic Encindered Ensear Err Eschar Estrange Ether Everburning Expend Exustion Faintly False Fervid Feverish Fire Firecross Flagrancy Flagrant Flagrate Flagration Flame Flaming Flamy Flapdragon Flare Flaring Full Fume Furbish Furbished Furnace Fusee Give Glare Glow Glowing Gold-size Grave Hamlet Haruspice Heat Heave Holocaust Hydrogen Hypocaust Igneous Incendiary Incense Incension Incensory Incentive Incinerate Incinerated Incombustibility Incombustible Incremable Inflame Ink Inustion Kiln Kindle Kindling Lamp Lampblack Light Lighted Lime-burner Match Matchmaker Mildly Moxa Night-fire Oblique Offering On Onomatope Out Overburn Parch Parching Pastil Persecute Pharos Phlegmon Phlegmonous Phlem Phlogiston Phosphorus Pile Pimpinella Pissasphalt Play Poach Potash Prohibit Provide Pseudo-volcano Pyre Pyrorthite Pyrotic Rankle Receive Reek Represent Representativeness Retaliate Root Row Rub Ruin Run Sacrifice Sanders Sarcophagus Save Saxifrage Scald Scalding Sciroc Scorch Scorched Scorching Scorn Scottering Sear Seared Seraph Seraphical Shadow Shake Shale Sight Singe Singed Singeing Sit Skylark Smoke Smoker Smoking Smouldering Smouldry Snap-dragon Snuff Soot Sparkle Squib Stake Stigma Still-burn Stum Sulphore Sultry Sun-bright Sun-burnt Supply Suttee Swale Table Talk Tar Thurification Tophet Torrid Trass Tunnel-kiln Unburnt Unfumed Unguent Ustion Ustorious Ustulation Vestal Volcano Wildfire Windrow Wood-ashes Wood-offering Wood-soot Zarnich
Actual Adure Adust Adusted Adustion Aguish Altar Ambustion Ampelite Anthracite Anthrax Anticausotic Apatite Apostolics Aptitude Ardency Ardent Arson Ashes Asphaltum Atonement Ball Barbadoes-cherry Barilla Basking-shark Bdellium Beacon Belemnite Betle Bister Blaze Blister Blow Blow-pipe Bourn Boutisale Bovey-coal Brand Bream Bren Brick Brickkiln Bright-burning Brisk Brun Burn Burnable Burned Burner Burnet Burning Burnish Burnoose Burnt Burnt-offering Cadmean Calid Calx Candle Canoe Carboncle Carcass Caustic Cauterization Cauterize Cauterized Cauterizing Cautery Caxou Cense Censer Char-woman Charcoal Chark Chimney Clamp Clear Coal Colly Combustibility Combustible Combustibleness Concremation Conflagrant Conflagration Considerable Consumed Consuming Consumption Cork Cost Crackle Cremation Culm Cupel Damage Dark Deflagrability Deflagrable Deflagrate Deflagration Dentifrice Dephlegmate Dephlogisticate Destroy Detonate Detonated Detonize Diacaustic Disgorge Dull Dysodile Ebony Effigy Egress Empyreuma Empyreumatic Empyrosis Encaustic Encindered Ensear Err Eschar Estrange Ether Everburning Expend Exustion Faintly False Fervid Feverish Fire Firecross Flagrancy Flagrant Flagrate Flagration Flame Flaming Flamy Flapdragon Flare Flaring Full Fume Furbish Furbished Furnace Fusee Give Glare Glow Glowing Gold-size Grave Hamlet Haruspice Heat Heave Holocaust Hydrogen Hypocaust Igneous Incendiary Incense Incension Incensory Incentive Incinerate Incinerated Incombustibility Incombustible Incremable Inflame Ink Inustion Kiln Kindle Kindling Lamp Lampblack Light Lighted Lime-burner Match Matchmaker Mildly Moxa Night-fire Oblique Offering On Onomatope Out Overburn Parch Parching Pastil Persecute Pharos Phlegmon Phlegmonous Phlem Phlogiston Phosphorus Pile Pimpinella Pissasphalt Play Poach Potash Prohibit Provide Pseudo-volcano Pyre Pyrorthite Pyrotic Rankle Receive Reek Represent Representativeness Retaliate Root Row Rub Ruin Run Sacrifice Sanders Sarcophagus Save Saxifrage Scald Scalding Sciroc Scorch Scorched Scorching Scorn Scottering Sear Seared Seraph Seraphical Shadow Shake Shale Sight Singe Singed Singeing Sit Skylark Smoke Smoker Smoking Smouldering Smouldry Snap-dragon Snuff Soot Sparkle Squib Stake Stigma Still-burn Stum Sulphore Sultry Sun-bright Sun-burnt Supply Suttee Swale Table Talk Tar Thurification Tophet Torrid Trass Tunnel-kiln Unburnt Unfumed Unguent Ustion Ustorious Ustulation Vestal Volcano Wildfire Windrow Wood-ashes Wood-offering Wood-soot Zarnich
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