Definition of burn

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Burn (v. i.) In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought..

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Girdle :: Girdle (v. t.) To make a cut or gnaw a groove around (a tree, etc.) through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it..
Aptitude :: Aptitude (n.) A natural or acquired disposition or capacity for a particular purpose, or tendency to a particular action or effect; as, oil has an aptitude to burn..
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..
Detonize :: Detonize (v. t. & i.) To explode, or cause to explode; to burn with an explosion; to detonate..
Burn :: Burn (v. i.) To suffer from, or be scorched by, an excess of heat..
Toft :: Toft (n.) A place where a messuage has once stood; the site of a burnt or decayed house.
Sideromancy :: Sideromancy (n.) Divination by burning straws on red-hot iron, and noting the manner of their burning..
Adustion :: Adustion (n.) The act of burning, or heating to dryness; the state of being thus heated or dried..
Holocaust :: Holocaust (n.) A burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was consumed by fire, among the Jews and some pagan nations..
Char :: Char (n.) To burn slightly or partially; as, to char wood..
Hake :: Hake (n.) A drying shed, as for unburned tile..
Alburnous :: Alburnous (a.) Of or pertaining to alburnum; of the alburnum; as, alburnous substances..
Picking :: Picking (n.) Overburned bricks.
Conflagrant :: Conflagrant (a.) Burning together in a common flame.
Smoke :: Smoke (v. t.) To inhale and puff out the smoke of, as tobacco; to burn or use in smoking; as, to smoke a pipe or a cigar..
Snuff :: Snuff (v. t.) The part of a candle wick charred by the flame, whether burning or not..
Clinker :: Clinker (n.) Scoria or vitrified incombustible matter, formed in a grate or furnace where anthracite coal in used; vitrified or burnt matter ejected from a volcano; slag..
Solanine :: Solanine (n.) A poisonous alkaloid glucoside extracted from the berries of common nightshade (Solanum nigrum), and of bittersweet, and from potato sprouts, as a white crystalline substance having an acrid, burning taste; -- called also solonia, and solanina..
Frankincense :: Frankincense (n.) A fragrant, aromatic resin, or gum resin, burned as an incense in religious rites or for medicinal fumigation. The best kinds now come from East Indian trees, of the genus Boswellia; a commoner sort, from the Norway spruce (Abies excelsa) and other coniferous trees. The frankincense of the ancient Jews is still unidentified..
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