Definition of burn

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Burn (v. i.) 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..

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Laving :: Laving (v. i.) Ignited; glowing with heat; burning; live.
Kindle :: Kindle (v. i.) To take fire; to begin to burn with flame; to start as a flame.
Black-jack :: Black-jack (n.) Caramel or burnt sugar, used to color wines, spirits, ground coffee, etc..
Inustion :: Inustion (n.) The act of burning or branding.
Titanium :: Titanium (n.) An elementary substance found combined in the minerals manaccanite, rutile, sphene, etc., and isolated as an infusible iron-gray amorphous powder, having a metallic luster. It burns when heated in the air. Symbol Ti. Atomic weight 48.1..
Unguent :: Unguent (n.) A lubricant or salve for sores, burns, or the like; an ointment..
Bournous :: Bournous (n.) See Burnoose.
Teend :: Teend (v. t. & i.) To kindle; to burn.
Roast :: Roast (v. t.) Hence, to heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn..
Hussite :: Hussite (n.) A follower of John Huss, the Bohemian reformer, who was adjudged a heretic and burnt alive in 1415..
Burned :: Burned (p. p. & a.) See Burnt.
Still-closing :: Still-burn (p. pr. & vb. n.) To burn in the process of distillation; as, to still-burn brandy..
Alburnum :: Alburnum (n.) The white and softer part of wood, between the inner bark and the hard wood or duramen; sapwood..
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..
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..
Chark :: Chark (v. t.) To burn to a coal; to char.
Pyre :: Pyre (n.) A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which the dead are burned; hence, any pile to be burnt..
Flatting :: Flatting (n.) A method of preserving gilding unburnished, by touching with size..
Burn :: Burn (v. i.) To be of fire; to flame.
Flaming :: Flaming (a.) Ardent; passionate; burning with zeal; irrepressibly earnest; as, a flaming proclomation or harangue..
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