Definition of burn

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Burn (n.) A hurt, injury, or effect caused by fire or excessive or intense heat..

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Bernouse :: Bernouse (n.) Same as Burnoose.
Adust :: Adust (a.) Looking as if or scorched; sunburnt.
Auburn :: Auburn (a.) Reddish brown.
Flame :: Flame (n.) A stream of burning vapor or gas, emitting light and heat; darting or streaming fire; a blaze; a fire..
L :: L () L is the twelfth letter of the English alphabet, and a vocal consonant. It is usually called a semivowel or liquid. Its form and value are from the Greek, through the Latin, the form of the Greek letter being from the Phoenician, and the ultimate origin prob. Egyptian. Etymologically, it is most closely related to r and u; as in pilgrim, peregrine, couch (fr. collocare), aubura (fr. LL. alburnus)..
Clavellated :: Clavellated (a.) Said of potash, probably in reference to its having been obtained from billets of wood by burning..
Altar :: Altar (n.) A raised structure (as a square or oblong erection of stone or wood) on which sacrifices are offered or incense burned to a deity.
Scorch :: Scorch (v. i.) To burn or be burnt.
Waahoo :: Waahoo (n.) The burning bush; -- said to be called after a quack medicine made from it.
Eburnean :: Eburnean (a.) Made of or relating to ivory.
Burner :: Burner (n.) One who, or that which, burns or sets fire to anything..
Cardialgy :: Cardialgy (n.) A burning or gnawing pain, or feeling of distress, referred to the region of the heart, accompanied with cardiac palpitation; heartburn. It is usually a symptom of indigestion..
Incinerate :: Incinerate (v. t.) To burn to ashes; to consume; to burn.
Exustion :: Exustion (n.) The act or operation of burning up.
Incremate :: Incremate (v. t.) To consume or reduce to ashes by burning, as a dead body; to cremate..
Fire :: Fire (n.) The burning of a house or town; a conflagration.
Bessemer Steel :: Bessemer steel () Steel made directly from cast iron, by burning out a portion of the carbon and other impurities that the latter contains, through the agency of a blast of air which is forced through the molten metal; -- so called from Sir Henry Bessemer, an English engineer, the inventor of the process..
Burnisher :: Burnisher (n.) One who burnishes.
Cense :: Cense (v. t.) To perfume with odors from burning gums and spices.
Pachak :: Pachak (n.) The fragrant roots of the Saussurea Costus, exported from India to China, and used for burning as incense. It is supposed to be the costus of the ancients..
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