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Blazing :: Blazing (a.) Burning with a blaze; as, a blazing fire; blazing torches..

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..

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

Glass :: Glass (v. t.) To smooth or polish anything, as leater, by rubbing it with a glass burnisher..

Arrowwood :: Arrowwood (n.) A shrub (Viburnum dentatum) growing in damp woods and thickets; -- so called from the long, straight, slender shoots..

Sap :: Sap (n.) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree..

Frankfort Black :: Frankfort black () A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc..

Smoke :: Smoke (n.) Hence, to burn; to be kindled; to rage..

Vestal :: Vestal (a.) A virgin consecrated to Vesta, and to the service of watching the sacred fire, which was to be perpetually kept burning upon her altar..

Eburnean :: Eburnean (a.) Made of or relating to ivory.

Lampblack :: Lampblack (n.) The fine impalpable soot obtained from the smoke of carbonaceous substances which have been only partly burnt, as in the flame of a smoking lamp. It consists of finely divided carbon, with sometimes a very small proportion of various impurities. It is used as an ingredient of printers' ink, and various black pigments and cements..

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..

Ustulation :: Ustulation (n.) The burning of wine.

Breeze :: Breeze (n.) Refuse coal, coal ashes, and cinders, used in the burning of bricks..

Sheepberry :: Sheepberry (n.) The edible fruit of a small North American tree of the genus Viburnum (V. Lentago), having white flowers in flat cymes; also, the tree itself. Called also nannyberry..

Brand :: Brand (v. t.) Any minute fungus which produces a burnt appearance in plants. The brands are of many species and several genera of the order Pucciniaei.

Carbuncle :: Carbuncle (n.) A beautiful gem of a deep red color (with a mixture of scarlet) called by the Greeks anthrax; found in the East Indies. When held up to the sun, it loses its deep tinge, and becomes of the color of burning coal. The name belongs for the most part to ruby sapphire, though it has been also given to red spinel and garnet..

Flaming :: Flaming (a.) Ardent; passionate; burning with zeal; irrepressibly earnest; as, a flaming proclomation or harangue..

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..

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