Definition of burning

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Burning (a.) That burns; being on fire; excessively hot; fiery.

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Fake :: Fake (v. t.) To manipulate fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it..
Burning :: Burning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bur.
Outburn :: Outburn (v. t. & i.) To exceed in burning.
Heartburn :: Heartburn (n.) An uneasy, burning sensation in the stomach, often attended with an inclination to vomit. It is sometimes idiopathic, but is often a symptom of often complaints..
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..
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..
Fiery :: Fiery (a.) heated by fire, or as if by fire; burning hot; parched; feverish..
Parching :: Parching (a.) Scorching; burning; drying.
Sulphur-bottom :: Sulphurator (n.) An apparatus for impregnating with, or exposing to the action of, sulphur; especially, an apparatus for fumigating or bleaching by means of the fumes of burning sulphur..
Thurification :: Thurification (n.) The act of fuming with incense, or the act of burning incense..
Veratrine :: Veratrine (n.) A poisonous alkaloid obtained from the root hellebore (Veratrum) and from sabadilla seeds as a white crystalline powder, having an acrid, burning taste. It is sometimes used externally, as in ointments, in the local treatment of neuralgia and rheumatism. Called also veratria, and veratrina..
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..
Laving :: Laving (v. i.) Ignited; glowing with heat; burning; live.
Snapdragon :: Snapdragon (n.) A play in which raisins are snatched from a vessel containing burning brandy, and eaten; also, that which is so eaten. See Flapdragon..
Nicotine :: Nicotine (n.) An alkaloid which is the active principle of tobacco. It is a colorless, transparent, oily liquid, having an acrid odor, and an acrid burning taste. It is intensely poisonous..
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..
Cremation :: Cremation (n.) A burning; esp., the act or practice of cremating the dead..
Blue :: Blue (superl.) Pale, without redness or glare, -- said of a flame; hence, of the color of burning brimstone, betokening the presence of ghosts or devils; as, the candle burns blue; the air was blue with oaths..
Incremate :: Incremate (v. t.) To consume or reduce to ashes by burning, as a dead body; to cremate..
Waahoo :: Waahoo (n.) The burning bush; -- said to be called after a quack medicine made from it.
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