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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Fuel :: Fuel (n.) Any matter used to produce heat by burning; that which feeds fire; combustible matter used for fires, as wood, coal, peat, etc..
Flame :: Flame (n.) Burning zeal or passion; elevated and noble enthusiasm; glowing imagination; passionate excitement or anger.
Inburning :: Inburning (a.) Burning within.
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)..
Tawny :: Tawny (n.) Of a dull yellowish brown color, like things tanned, or persons who are sunburnt; as, tawny Moor or Spaniard; the tawny lion..
Fervent :: Fervent (a.) Hot; glowing; boiling; burning; as, a fervent summer..
Heartburned :: Heartburned (a.) Having heartburn.
Scorch :: Scorch (v. i.) To burn or be burnt.
Lignite :: Lignite (n.) Mineral coal retaining the texture of the wood from which it was formed, and burning with an empyreumatic odor. It is of more recent origin than the anthracite and bituminous coal of the proper coal series. Called also brown coal, wood coal..
Light :: Light (n.) To set fire to; to cause to burn; to set burning; to ignite; to kindle; as, to light a candle or lamp; to light the gas; -- sometimes with up..
Sulphurize :: Sulphuring (n.) Exposure to the fumes of burning sulphur, as in bleaching; the process of bleaching by exposure to the fumes of sulphur..
Combustible :: Combustible (a.) Capable of taking fire and burning; apt to catch fire; inflammable.
Pickle :: Pickle (v. t.) A bath of dilute sulphuric or nitric acid, etc., to remove burnt sand, scale rust, etc., from the surface of castings, or other articles of metal, or to brighten them or improve their color..
Flame :: Flame (n.) To burn with a flame or blaze; to burn as gas emitted from bodies in combustion; to blaze.
Holocaust :: Holocaust (n.) A burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was consumed by fire, among the Jews and some pagan nations..
Dysodile :: Dysodile (n.) An impure earthy or coaly bitumen, which emits a highly fetid odor when burning..
Smoke :: Smoke (n.) The visible exhalation, vapor, or substance that escapes, or expelled, from a burning body, especially from burning vegetable matter, as wood, coal, peat, or the like..
Exustion :: Exustion (n.) The act or operation of burning up.
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..
Base-burner :: Base-burner (n.) A furnace or stove in which the fuel is contained in a hopper or chamber, and is fed to the fire as the lower stratum is consumed..
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