Definition of burn

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Burn (n.) The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking; as, they have a good burn..

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Brickkiln :: Brickkiln (n.) A kiln, or furnace, in which bricks are baked or burnt; or a pile of green bricks, laid loose, with arches underneath to receive the wood or fuel for burning them..
Chatwood :: Chatwood (n.) Little sticks; twigs for burning; fuel.
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..
Glasswort :: Glasswort (n.) A seashore plant of the Spinach family (Salicornia herbacea), with succulent jointed stems; also, a prickly plant of the same family (Salsola Kali), both formerly burned for the sake of the ashes, which yield soda for making glass and soap..
Burner :: Burner (n.) One who, or that which, burns or sets fire to anything..
Auburn :: Auburn (a.) Flaxen-colored.
Char :: Char (n.) To reduce to coal or carbon by exposure to heat; to reduce to charcoal; to burn to a cinder.
Waahoo :: Waahoo (n.) The burning bush; -- said to be called after a quack medicine made from it.
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..
Up :: Up (adv.) To or in a state of completion; completely; wholly; quite; as, in the phrases to eat up; to drink up; to burn up; to sum up; etc.; to shut up the eyes or the mouth; to sew up a rent..
Viburnum :: Viburnum (n.) A genus of shrubs having opposite, petiolate leaves and cymose flowers, several species of which are cultivated as ornamental, as the laurestine and the guelder-rose..
Flare :: Flare (v. i.) To burn with an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle flares..
Fiery :: Fiery (a.) heated by fire, or as if by fire; burning hot; parched; feverish..
Bude Burner :: Bude burner () A burner consisting of two or more concentric Argand burners (the inner rising above the outer) and a central tube by which oxygen gas or common air is supplied.
Brand :: Brand (v. t.) To burn a distinctive mark into or upon with a hot iron, to indicate quality, ownership, etc., or to mark as infamous (as a convict)..
Burn :: Burn (n.) A hurt, injury, or effect caused by fire or excessive or intense heat..
Burnishing :: Burnishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Burnis.
Sunburnt :: Sunburned (imp. & p. p.) of Sunbur.
Cauterize :: Cauterize (v. t.) To burn or sear with a cautery or caustic.
Cranberry :: Cranberry (n.) A red, acid berry, much used for making sauce, etc.; also, the plant producing it (several species of Vaccinum or Oxycoccus.) The high cranberry or cranberry tree is a species of Viburnum (V. Opulus), and the other is sometimes called low cranberry or marsh cranberry to distinguish it..
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