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Adustion :: Adustion (n.) The act of burning, or heating to dryness; the state of being thus heated or dried..

Flambeau :: Flambeau (n.) A flaming torch, esp. one made by combining together a number of thick wicks invested with a quick-burning substance (anciently, perhaps, wax; in modern times, pitch or the like); hence, any torch..

Quench :: Quench (v. t.) To extinguish; to overwhelm; to make an end of; -- said of flame and fire, of things burning, and figuratively of sensations and emotions; as, to quench flame; to quench a candle; to quench thirst, love, hate, etc..

Cautery :: Cautery (n.) A burning or searing, as of morbid flesh, with a hot iron, or by application of a caustic that will burn, corrode, or destroy animal tissue..

Parching :: Parching (a.) Scorching; burning; drying.

Annealing :: Annealing (n.) The burning of metallic colors into glass, earthenware, etc..

Bessemer Steel :: Bessemer steel () Steel made directly from cast iron, by burning out a portion of the carbon and other impurities that the latter contains, through the agency of a blast of air which is forced through the molten metal; -- so called from Sir Henry Bessemer, an English engineer, the inventor of the process..

Vell :: Vell (n.) To cut the turf from, as for burning..

Ustulation :: Ustulation (n.) The burning of wine.

Smoke :: Smoke (n.) To draw into the mouth the smoke of tobacco burning in a pipe or in the form of a cigar, cigarette, etc.; to habitually use tobacco in this manner..

Heartburning :: Heartburning (a.) Causing discontent.

Pyrography :: Pyrography (n.) A process of printing, ornamenting, or carving, by burning with heated instruments..

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.].

Ardurous :: Ardurous (a.) Burning; ardent.

Fervid :: Fervid (a.) Very hot; burning; boiling.

Combustion :: Combustion (n.) The state of burning.

Brenningly :: Brenningly (adv.) Burningly; ardently.

Live :: Live (a.) Being in a state of ignition; burning; having active properties; as, a live coal; live embers..

Flaming :: Flaming (a.) Ardent; passionate; burning with zeal; irrepressibly earnest; as, a flaming proclomation or harangue..

Caustical :: Caustical (a.) Capable of destroying the texture of anything or eating away its substance by chemical action; burning; corrosive; searing.

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