Definition of burn

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Burn (v. t.) 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..

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Brand :: Brand (v. t.) A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct..
Burning :: Burning (a.) Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful; as, burning zeal..
Adusted :: Adusted (a.) Burnt; adust.
Batwing :: Batwing (a.) Shaped like a bat's wing; as, a bat's-wing burner..
Smudge :: Smudge (n.) A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, or the like, in order, by the thick smoke, to keep off mosquitoes or other insects..
Calcigenous :: Calcigenous (a.) Tending to form, or to become, a calx or earthlike substance on being oxidized or burnt; as magnesium, calcium. etc..
Inflamed :: Inflamed (p. a.) Represented as burning, or as adorned with tongues of flame..
Tip :: Tip (n.) An end piece or part; a piece, as a cap, nozzle, ferrule, or point, applied to the extreme end of anything; as, a tip for an umbrella, a shoe, a gas burner, etc..
Fiery :: Fiery (a.) heated by fire, or as if by fire; burning hot; parched; feverish..
Incremate :: Incremate (v. t.) To consume or reduce to ashes by burning, as a dead body; to cremate..
Flame :: Flame (n.) A stream of burning vapor or gas, emitting light and heat; darting or streaming fire; a blaze; a fire..
Ablen :: Ablen () A small fresh-water fish (Leuciscus alburnus); the bleak.
Conflagrant :: Conflagrant (a.) Burning together in a common flame.
Burner :: Burner (n.) The part of a lamp, gas fixture, etc., where the flame is produced..
Agate :: Agate (n.) A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.; -- so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing..
Magnesium :: Magnesium (n.) A light silver-white metallic element, malleable and ductile, quite permanent in dry air but tarnishing in moist air. It burns, forming (the oxide) magnesia, with the production of a blinding light (the so-called magnesium light) which is used in signaling, in pyrotechny, or in photography where a strong actinic illuminant is required. Its compounds occur abundantly, as in dolomite, talc, meerschaum, etc. Symbol Mg. Atomic weight, 24.4. Specific gravity, 1.75..
Blea :: Blea (n.) The part of a tree which lies immediately under the bark; the alburnum or sapwood.
Downcome :: Downcome (n.) A pipe for leading combustible gases downward from the top of the blast furnace to the hot-blast stoves, boilers, etc., where they are burned..
Antipyrotic :: Antipyrotic (a.) Good against burns or pyrosis.
Incremable :: Incremable (a.) Incapable of being burnt; incombustibe.
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