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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. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ OE. burne, borne, AS. burna; akin to OS. brunno spring, G. born, brunnen, OHG. prunno, Goth. brunna, Icel. brunnr, and perh. to Gr. &unr_;. The root is prob. that of burn, v., because the source of a stream seems to issue forth bubbling and boiling from the earth. Cf. Torrent, and see Burn, v. ] A stream or rivulet; a burn. [ 1913 Webster ]

My little boat can safely pass this perilous bourn. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. borne. See Bound a limit. ] A bound; a boundary; a limit. Hence: Point aimed at; goal. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where the land slopes to its watery bourn. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
No traveler returns. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sole bourn, sole wish, sole object of my song. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

To make the doctrine . . . their intellectual bourne. Tyndall. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ See Bude light. ] A burner consisting of two or more concentric Argand burners (the inner rising above the outer) and a central tube by which oxygen gas or common air is supplied. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Chem.), a kind of burner, invented by Professor Bunsen of Heidelberg, consisting of a straight tube, four or five inches in length, having small holes for the entrance of air at the bottom. Illuminating gas being also admitted at the bottom, a mixture of gas and air is formed which burns at the top with a feebly luminous but intensely hot flame. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. & a. See Burnt. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. Burnished. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, burns or sets fire to anything. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The part of a lamp, gas fixture, etc., where the flame is produced. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bunsen's burner (Chem.), see Bunsen burner. --
Argand burner,
Rose burner, etc. See under Argand, Rose, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. burnet burnet; also, brownish (the plant perh. being named from its color), fr. F. brunet, dim. of brun brown; cf. OF. brunete a sort of flower. See Brunette. ] (Bot.) A genus of perennial herbs (Poterium); especially, Poterium Sanguisorba, the common, or garden, burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

Burnet moth (Zool.), in England, a handsome moth (Zygæna filipendula), with crimson spots on the wings. --
Burnet saxifrage. (Bot.) See Saxifrage. --
Canadian burnet, a marsh plant (Poterium Canadensis). --
Great burnet,
Wild burnet, Poterium oficinalis (or Sanguisorba oficinalis). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Burnettized p. pr. & vb. n. Burnettizing. ] (Manuf.) To subject (wood, fabrics, etc.) to a process of saturation in a solution of chloride of zinc, to prevent decay; -- a process invented by Sir William Burnett. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. prenom. 1. drained of energy or effectiveness; driven to apathy by overwork or prolonged stress; -- of people.
Syn. -- burned out(predicate), burnt out(predicate), fagged, exhausted, fatigued, played-out(prenominal), played out(predicate), spent, washed-out(prenominal), washed out(predicate), worn-out(prenominal), worn out(predicate). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. damaged or destroyed by or as if by fire; as, barricaded the street with burned-out cars.
Syn. -- burned out(predicate), burnt out(predicate). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. agitated vigorously; -- of a liquid.
Syn. -- churning, roiling, roiled, roily, turbulent. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖a. [ F., p. p. of contourner to twist. ] (Her.) Turned in a direction which is not the usual one; -- said of an animal turned to the sinister which is usually turned to the dexter, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. eburneus, fr. ebur ivory. See Ivory. ] Made of or relating to ivory. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A gas burner with a device for lighting by an electric spark. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ F. ] (Mil.) The chamber of a mine in which the powder is placed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The jet piece of a gas fixture where the gas is burned as it escapes from one or more minute orifices. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A fish. See Gurnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ n. [ OF. gornal, gournal, gornart, perh. akin to F. grogner to grunt; cf. Ir. guirnead gurnard. ] (Zool.) One ofseveral European marine fishes, of the genus Trigla and allied genera, having a large and spiny head, with mailed cheeks. Some of the species are highly esteemed for food. The name is sometimes applied to the American sea robins. [ Written also gournet. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Plyling gurnard. See under Flying. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having heartburn. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Journeys [ OE. jornee, journee, prop., a day's journey, OF. jornée, jurnée, a day, a day's work of journey, F. journée, fr. OF. jorn, jurn, jor a day, F. jour, fr. L. diurnus. See Journal. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The travel or work of a day. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

We have yet large day, for scarce the sun
Hath finished half his journey. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Travel or passage from one place to another, especially one covering a large distance or taking a long time. [ 1913 Webster ]

The good man . . . is gone a long journey. Prov. vii. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hence: [ figurative ], A passage through life, or a passage through any significant experience, or from one state to another. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

We must all have the same journey's end. Bp. Stillingfleet.

4. The distance that is traveled in a journey{ 2 }, or the time taken to complete a journey{ 2 }; as, it's a two-day journey from the oasis into Cairo by camel; from Mecca to Samarkand is quite a journey. [ PJC ]

Syn. -- Tour; excursion; trip; expedition; pilgrimage; jaunt. -- Journey, Tour, Excursion, Pilgrimage. The word journey suggests the idea of a somewhat prolonged traveling for a specific object, leading a person to pass directly from one point to another. In a tour, we take a roundabout course from place to place, more commonly for pleasure, though sometimes on business. An excursion is usually a brief tour or trip for pleasure, health, etc. In a pilgrimage we travel to a place hallowed by our religions affections, or by some train of sacred or tender associations. A journey on important business; the tour of Europe; an excursion to the lakes; a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Journeyed p. pr. & vb. n. Journeying. ] To travel from place to place; to go from home to a distance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south. Gen. xii. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To traverse; to travel over or through. [ R. ] “I journeyed many a land.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Worn out with journeying. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who journeys. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the act or process of traveling from one place to another.
Syn. -- journey. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Journeymen 1. Formerly, a man hired to work by the day; now, commonly, one who has finished an apprenticeship and is a competent worker in a handicraft or trade, but has not received recognition as a master; -- distinguished from apprentice and from master workman. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: A competent and experienced worker who performs adequately but without a high level of expertise or imagination. [ PJC ]

n. 1. Originally, work done by the day; work done by a journeyman at his trade. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: Routine or relatively unskilled work performed under direction of a supervisor. [ PJC ]

{ } n. [ Ir. mo mhuirnin my darling; mo my + mhuirnin darling. ] My darling; -- an Irish term of endearment for a girl or woman. “Erin mavournin.” Campbell. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ See 2d Morne. ] The armed or feruled end of a staff; in a sheephook, the end of the staff to which the hook is attached. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who mourns or is grieved at any misfortune, as the death of a friend. [ 1913 Webster ]

His mourners were two hosts, his friends and foes. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who attends a funeral as a hired mourner. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mourners were provided to attend the funeral. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. See Nocturn. ] (Mus.) A night piece, or serenade. The name is now used for a certain graceful and expressive form of instrumental composition, as the nocturne for orchestra in Mendelsohn's “Midsummer-Night's Dream” music. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who overturns. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who returns. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who sojourns. [ 1913 Webster ]

We are strangers before thee, and sojourners. 1. Chron. xxix. 15. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being sour. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eng. Law) Formerly the title of the sealer of writs in chancery. Mozley & W. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who spurns. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A circle or cluster of gas-burners for lighting and ventilating public buildings. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Work turned on a lathe; turnery. [ Obs. ] See Turnery. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. tornei, tornoi, F. tournoi, fr. OF. torneier, tornoier, tournoier, to tit, to tourney, F. tournoyer to turn round and round. See Turn, v. t. ] A tournament. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

At tilt or tourney or like warlike game. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

We hold a tourney here to-morrow morn,
And there is scantly time for half the work. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Cf.OF. torneier. See Tourney, n. ] To perform in tournaments; to tilt. [ 1913 Webster ]

Well could he tourney, and in lists debate. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) See Turnip. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who turns; especially, one whose occupation is to form articles with a lathe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A variety of pigeon; a tumbler. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ G. ] A person who practices athletic or gymnastic exercises. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ So called from the English chemist and mineralogist, C. H. Turner. ] (Min.) A variety of monazite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. tournerie. ] 1. The art of fashioning solid bodies into cylindrical or other forms by means of a lathe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Things or forms made by a turner, or in the lathe. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chairs of wood, the seats triangular, the backs, arms, and legs loaded with turnery. Walpole. [ 1913 Webster ]

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n. & v. Tourney. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. “In open turney.” Spenser. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]