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Carron Oil :: Carron oil () A lotion of linseed oil and lime water, used as an application to burns and scalds; -- first used at the Carron iron works in Scotland..

Hobblebush :: Hobblebush (n.) A low bush (Viburnum lantanoides) having long, straggling branches and handsome flowers. It is found in the Northern United States. Called also shinhopple..

Grate :: Grate (n.) A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning..

Calcination :: Calcination (n.) The act or process of disintegrating a substance, or rendering it friable by the action of heat, esp. by the expulsion of some volatile matter, as when carbonic and acid is expelled from carbonate of calcium in the burning of limestone in order to make lime..

Bovey Coal :: Bovey coal () A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor; -- found at Bovey Tracey, Devonshire, England. It is of geological age of the oolite, and not of the true coal era..

Arson :: Arson (n.) The malicious burning of a dwelling house or outhouse of another man, which by the common law is felony; the malicious and voluntary firing of a building or ship..

Fervent :: Fervent (a.) Hot; glowing; boiling; burning; as, a fervent summer..

Fire-fanged :: Fire-fanged (a.) Injured as by fire; burned; -- said of manure which has lost its goodness and acquired an ashy hue in consequence of heat generated by decomposition.

Pyrophone :: Pyrophone (n.) A musical instrument in which the tones are produced by flames of hydrogen, or illuminating gas, burning in tubes of different sizes and lengths..

Sideromancy :: Sideromancy (n.) Divination by burning straws on red-hot iron, and noting the manner of their burning..

Kindle :: Kindle (v. t.) To set on fire; to cause to burn with flame; to ignite; to cause to begin burning; to start; to light; as, to kindle a match, or shavings..

Burnish :: Burnish (n.) The effect of burnishing; gloss; brightness; luster.

Burniebee :: Burniebee (n.) The ladybird.

Consume :: Consume (v. t.) To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour..

Downcome :: Downcome (n.) A pipe for leading combustible gases downward from the top of the blast furnace to the hot-blast stoves, boilers, etc., where they are burned..

Slicker :: Slicker (n.) A kind of burnisher for leather.

Stigma :: Stigma (v. t.) A mark made with a burning iron; a brand.

Outburn :: Outburn (v. t. & i.) To exceed in burning.

Combustible :: Combustible (a.) Capable of taking fire and burning; apt to catch fire; inflammable.

Burnettized :: Burnettized (imp. & p. p.) of Burnettiz.

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