Definition of burn

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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..

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Smoke :: Smoke (n.) The visible exhalation, vapor, or substance that escapes, or expelled, from a burning body, especially from burning vegetable matter, as wood, coal, peat, or the like..
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..
Flame :: Flame (n.) Burning zeal or passion; elevated and noble enthusiasm; glowing imagination; passionate excitement or anger.
Water Tower :: Water tower () A large metal pipe made to be extended vertically by sections, and used for discharging water upon burning buildings..
Furbish :: Furbish (v. t.) To rub or scour to brightness; to clean; to burnish; as, to furbish a sword or spear..
Caburn :: Caburn (n.) A small line made of spun yarn, to bind or worm cables, seize tackles, etc..
Regenerator :: Regenerator (n.) A device used in connection with hot-air engines, gas-burning furnaces, etc., in which the incoming air or gas is heated by being brought into contact with masses of iron, brick, etc., which have been previously heated by the outgoing, or escaping, hot air or gas..
Batwing :: Batwing (a.) Shaped like a bat's wing; as, a bat's-wing burner..
Burn :: Burn (v. t.) To apply a cautery to; to cauterize.
Hake :: Hake (n.) A drying shed, as for unburned tile..
Pickle :: Pickle (v. t.) A bath of dilute sulphuric or nitric acid, etc., to remove burnt sand, scale rust, etc., from the surface of castings, or other articles of metal, or to brighten them or improve their color..
Sap :: Sap (n.) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree..
Bournous :: Bournous (n.) See Burnoose.
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..
Vell :: Vell (n.) To cut the turf from, as for burning..
Burnish :: Burnish (n.) The effect of burnishing; gloss; brightness; luster.
Matchmaking :: Matchmaking (n.) The act or process of making matches for kindling or burning.
Adust :: Adust (a.) Looking as if or scorched; sunburnt.
Wheal :: Wheal (n.) Specifically (Med.), a flat, burning or itching eminence on the skin, such as is produced by a mosquito bite, or in urticaria..
Firework :: Firework (n.) A device for producing a striking display of light, or a figure or figures in plain or colored fire, by the combustion of materials that burn in some peculiar manner, as gunpowder, sulphur, metallic filings, and various salts. The most common feature of fireworks is a paper or pasteboard tube filled with the combustible material. A number of these tubes or cases are often combined so as to make, when kindled, a great variety of figures in fire, often variously colored. The skyrocke
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