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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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..
Rub :: Rub (v. t.) To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; -- often with up or over; as, to rub up silver..
Combustible :: Combustible (n.) A substance that may be set on fire, or which is liable to take fire and burn..
Flatting :: Flatting (n.) A method of preserving gilding unburnished, by touching with size..
Fervid :: Fervid (a.) Very hot; burning; boiling.
Matte :: Matte (n.) A dead or dull finish, as in gilding where the gold leaf is not burnished, or in painting where the surface is purposely deprived of gloss..
Incremation :: Incremation (n.) Burning; esp., the act of burning a dead body; cremation..
Scorch :: Scorch (v. i.) To burn or be burnt.
Alburnum :: Alburnum (n.) The white and softer part of wood, between the inner bark and the hard wood or duramen; sapwood..
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..
Canoe :: Canoe (n.) A boat used by rude nations, formed of trunk of a tree, excavated, by cutting of burning, into a suitable shape. It is propelled by a paddle or paddles, or sometimes by sail, and has no rudder..
Ignite :: Ignite (v. i.) To take fire; to begin to burn.
Blazing :: Blazing (a.) Burning with a blaze; as, a blazing fire; blazing torches..
Firework :: Firework (n.) A device for producing a striking display of light, or a figure or figures in plain or colored fire, by the combustion of materials that burn in some peculiar manner, as gunpowder, sulphur, metallic filings, and various salts. The most common feature of fireworks is a paper or pasteboard tube filled with the combustible material. A number of these tubes or cases are often combined so as to make, when kindled, a great variety of figures in fire, often variously colored. The skyrocke
Machicolation :: Machicolation (n.) The act of discharging missiles or pouring burning or melted substances upon assailants through such apertures.
Politeness :: Politeness (n.) High finish; smoothness; burnished elegance.
Cremate :: Cremate (v. t.) To burn; to reduce to ashes by the action of fire, either directly or in an oven or retort; to incremate or incinerate; as, to cremate a corpse, instead of burying it..
Tree :: Tree (n.) A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree.
Alburnous :: Alburnous (a.) Of or pertaining to alburnum; of the alburnum; as, alburnous substances..
Chark :: Chark (v. t.) To burn to a coal; to char.
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