*burn*

a. Of or pertaining to alburnum; of the alburnum; as, alburnous substances. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., fr. albus white. ] (Bot.) The white and softer part of wood, between the inner bark and the hard wood or duramen; sapwood. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. auburne blonde, OF. alborne, auborne, fr. LL. alburnus whitish, fr. L. albus white. Cf. Alburn. ] 1. Flaxen-colored. [ Obs. ] Florio. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Reddish brown. [ 1913 Webster ]

His auburn locks on either shoulder flowed. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A battle in which the Scots under Robert the Bruce defeated the English and assured the independence of Scotland. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ So called in allusion to the fable of the man who burned his barn in order to rid it of rats. ] 1. A member of the radical section of the Democratic party in New York, about the middle of the 19th century, which was hostile to extension of slavery, public debts, corporate privileges, etc., and supported Van Buren against Cass for president in 1848; -- opposed to Hunker. [ Political Cant, U. S. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. an impressively successful or unusually good event. [ informal ] ”The rock concert was a real barnburner.” [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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 ]

[ Named from Mrs. Blackburn, an English lady. ] (Zool.) A beautiful warbler of the United States (Dendroica Blackburniæ). The male is strongly marked with orange, yellow, and black on the head and neck, and has an orange-yellow breast. [ 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 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Burned (bûrnd) or Burnt (bûrnt); p. pr. & vb. n. Burning. ] [ OE. bernen, brennen, v. t., early confused with beornen, birnen, v. i., AS. bærnan, bernan, v. t., birnan, v. i.; akin to OS. brinnan, OFries. barna, berna, OHG. brinnan, brennan, G. brennen, OD. bernen, D. branden, Dan. brænde, Sw. bränna, brinna, Icel. brenna, Goth. brinnan, brannjan (in comp.), and possibly to E. fervent. ] 1. To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood. “We'll burn his body in the holy place.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To injure by fire or heat; to change destructively some property or properties of, by undue exposure to fire or heat; to scorch; to scald; to blister; to singe; to char; to sear; as, to burn steel in forging; to burn one's face in the sun; the sun burns the grass. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some property or properties of, by exposure to fire or heat in due degree for obtaining a desired residuum, product, or effect; to bake; as, to burn clay in making bricks or pottery; to burn wood so as to produce charcoal; to burn limestone for the lime. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To make or produce, as an effect or result, by the application of fire or heat; as, to burn a hole; to burn charcoal; to burn letters into a block. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does; as, to burn the mouth with pepper. [ 1913 Webster ]

This tyrant fever burns me up. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

This dry sorrow burns up all my tears. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

When the cold north wind bloweth, . . . it devoureth the mountains, and burneth the wilderness, and consumeth the &unr_;&unr_;ass as fire. Ecclus. xliii. 20, 21. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Surg.) To apply a cautery to; to cauterize. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Chem.) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize; as, a man burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration; to burn iron in oxygen. [ 1913 Webster ]

To burn,
To burn together, as two surfaces of metal (Engin.), to fuse and unite them by pouring over them a quantity of the same metal in a liquid state. --
To burn a bowl (Game of Bowls), to displace it accidentally, the bowl so displaced being said to be burned. --
To burn daylight, to light candles before it is dark; to waste time; to perform superfluous actions. Shak. --
To burn one's fingers, to get one's self into unexpected trouble, as by interfering the concerns of others, speculation, etc. --
To burn out, (a) to destroy or obliterate by burning. “Must you with hot irons burn out mine eyes?” Shak. (b) to force (people) to flee by burning their homes or places of business; as, the rioters burned out the Chinese businessmen. --
To be burned out, to suffer loss by fire, as the burning of one's house, store, or shop, with the contents. --
To burn up,
To burn down, to burn entirely. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To be of fire; to flame. “The mount burned with fire.” Deut. ix. 15. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To suffer from, or be scorched by, an excess of heat. [ 1913 Webster ]

Your meat doth burn, quoth I. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To have a condition, quality, appearance, sensation, or emotion, as if on fire or excessively heated; to act or rage with destructive violence; to be in a state of lively emotion or strong desire; as, the face burns; to burn with fever. [ 1913 Webster ]

Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way? Luke xxiv. 32. [ 1913 Webster ]

The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne,
Burned on the water. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Burning with high hope. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

The groan still deepens, and the combat burns. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

The parching air
Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Chem.) To combine energetically, with evolution of heat; as, copper burns in chlorine. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To burn up,
To burn down, to be entirely consumed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A hurt, injury, or effect caused by fire or excessive or intense heat. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking; as, they have a good burn. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A disease in vegetables. See Brand, n., 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See 1st Bourn. ] A small stream. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Combustible. Cotgrave. [ 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 ]

n. [ See 4th Burn. ] A small brook. [ Scot. ] Burns. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The ladybird. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. That burns; being on fire; excessively hot; fiery. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful; as, burning zeal. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like a young hound upon a burning scent. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Burning bush (Bot.), an ornamental shrub (Euonymus atropurpureus), bearing a crimson berry. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Burning fluid, any volatile illuminating oil, as the lighter petroleums (naphtha, benzine), or oil of turpentine (camphine), but esp. a mixture of the latter with alcohol. --
Burning glass, a convex lens of considerable size, used for producing an intense heat by converging the sun's rays to a focus. --
Burning house (Metal.), the furnace in which tin ores are calcined, to sublime the sulphur and arsenic from the pyrites. Weale. --
Burning mirror, a concave mirror, or a combination of plane mirrors, used for the same purpose as a burning glass. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Combustion; fire; conflagration; flame; blaze. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Burnished p. pr. & vb. n. Burnishing. ] [ OE. burnischen, burnissen, burnen, OF. burnir, brunir, to make brown, polish, F. brunir, fr. F. brun brown, fr. OHG. br&unr_;n; cf. MHG. briunen to make brown, polish. See Brown, a. ] To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper. [ 1913 Webster ]

The frame of burnished steel, that east a glare
From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing air. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now the village windows blaze,
Burnished by the setting sun. Cunningham. [ 1913 Webster ]

Burnishing machine, a machine for smoothing and polishing by compression, as in making paper collars. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To shine forth; to brighten; to become smooth and glossy, as from swelling or filling out; hence, to grow large. [ 1913 Webster ]

A slender poet must have time to grow,
And spread and burnish as his brothers do. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

My thoughts began to burnish, sprout, and swell. Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The effect of burnishing; gloss; brightness; luster. Crashaw. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who burnishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Ar. burnus a kind of high-crowned cap: cf. F. bournous, burnous, Sp. al-bornoz, a sort of upper garment, with a hood attached. ] 1. A cloaklike garment and hood woven in one piece, worn by Arabs. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A combination cloak and hood worn by women. [ Variously written bournous, bernouse, bornous, etc. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To burn till the fuel is exhausted; as, when the candle burned out the room was totally dark; the firefighters couldn't control the oil tank fire and had to let it burn out by itself. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. To stop functioning due to failure of some component caused by the heat of the electrical current used in its operation; -- of electrical devices. [ PJC ]

3. To become apathetic or depressed, and cease to function effectively, due to the fatigue and frustration of prolonged stress and overwork; -- of people; as, the stress in the bond market is so great that many traders burn out after only ten years on the job. [ PJC ]

n. (Zool.) A stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus). [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. & a. Consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried, as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun. [ 1913 Webster ]

Burnt ear, a black, powdery fungus which destroys grain. See Smut. --
Burnt offering, something offered and burnt on an altar, as an atonement for sin; a sacrifice. The offerings of the Jews were a clean animal, as an ox, a calf, a goat, or a sheep; or some vegetable substance, as bread, or ears of wheat or barley. Called also burnt sacrifice. [ 2 Sam. xxiv. 22. ] [ 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 ]

n. the amount of fuel used up (as in a nuclear reactor). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a high-speed motorcycle race on a public road. [ British slang ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. Cable, n. ] (Naut.) A small line made of spun yarn, to bind or worm cables, seize tackles, etc.

n. [ L. eburnus of ivory, fr. ebur ivory: cf. F. éburnation. See Ivory. ] (Med.) A condition of bone cartilage occurring in certain diseases of these tissues, in which they acquire an unnatural density, and come to resemble ivory. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. [ L. eburnus of ivory (fr. ebur ivory) + facere to make. ] The conversion of certain substances into others which have the appearance or characteristics of ivory. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to ivory. “[ She ] read from tablet eburnine.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

adj. burning in a continuous manner; -- of an electric arc; as, heat transfer to the anode in free-burning arcs.
Syn. -- free burning, sustained. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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. (Med.) An uneasy, burning sensation in the stomach, often attended with an inclination to vomit. It is sometimes idiopathic, but is often a symptom of other complaints. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having heartburn. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Causing discontent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Med.) Same as Heartburn. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Discontent; secret enmity. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

The transaction did not fail to leave heartburnings. Palfrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Burning within. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her inburning wrath she gan abate. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Burnt in; ineffaceable. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her inburnt, shamefaced thoughts. P. Fletcher. [ 1913 Webster ]