Definition of burn

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Burn (v. t.) 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..

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Flame :: Flame (n.) To burn with a flame or blaze; to burn as gas emitted from bodies in combustion; to blaze.
Sunburst :: Sunburning (n.) Sunburn; tan.
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..
Touch-paper :: Touch-paper (n.) Paper steeped in saltpeter, which burns slowly, and is used as a match for firing gunpowder, and the like..
Cresset :: Cresset (n.) An open frame or basket of iron, filled with combustible material, to be burned as a beacon; an open lamp or firrepan carried on a pole in nocturnal processions..
Toft :: Toft (n.) A place where a messuage has once stood; the site of a burnt or decayed house.
Parch :: Parch (v. t.) To burn the surface of; to scorch; to roast over the fire, as dry grain; as, to parch the skin; to parch corn..
Inflamed :: Inflamed (p. a.) Represented as burning, or as adorned with tongues of flame..
Wreck :: Wreck (v. t.) The ruins of a ship stranded; a ship dashed against rocks or land, and broken, or otherwise rendered useless, by violence and fracture; as, they burned the wreck..
Waahoo :: Waahoo (n.) The burning bush; -- said to be called after a quack medicine made from it.
Burn :: Burn (v. t.) 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..
Combustible :: Combustible (n.) A substance that may be set on fire, or which is liable to take fire and burn..
Overburn :: Overburn (v. t. & i.) To burn too much; to be overzealous.
Girdle :: Girdle (v. t.) To make a cut or gnaw a groove around (a tree, etc.) through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it..
Flagrant :: Flagrant (a.) Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent.
Burnous :: Burnous (n.) A cloaklike garment and hood woven in one piece, worn by Arabs..
Vell :: Vell (n.) To cut the turf from, as for burning..
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..
Arson :: Arson (n.) The malicious burning of a dwelling house or outhouse of another man, which by the common law is felony; the malicious and voluntary firing of a building or ship..
Heartburning :: Heartburning (n.) Same as Heartburn.
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