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To reduce to coal or carbon by exposure to heat; to reduce to charcoal; to burn to a cinder.

d as an absorbent and disinfectant. -- Charcoal blacks, the black pigment, consisting of burnt ivory, bone, cock, peach stones, and other substances. -- Charcoal drawing (Fine Arts), a drawing made with charcoal. See Charcoal, 2. Until within a few years this material has been used almost exclusively for preliminary…

To burn to a coal; to char. [Obs.]

Little sticks; twigs for burning; fuel. Johnson.

Brigands in bands, who, about 1793, pillaged, burned, and killed in parts of France; -- so called because they used to burn the feet of their victims to extort money.

To shiver or chatter with cold. [Scot.] Burns.

To give a name; to denominate. "Christen the thing what you will." Bp. Burnet.

Partly burned or vitrified coal, or other combustible, in which fire is extinct.

ashes. Cinerary urns, vessels used by the ancients to preserve the ashes of the dead when burned.

. . engaged him when he was very young to write all his letters to England in cipher. Bp. Burnet. Cipher key, a key to assist in reading writings in cipher.

A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal coking.

Said of potash, probably in reference to its having been obtained from billets of wood by burning. [Obs.]

er. -- Brick clay, the common clay, containing some iron, and therefore turning red when burned. -- Clay cold, cold as clay or earth; lifeless; inanimate. -- Clay ironstone, an ore of iron consisting of the oxide or carbonate of iron mixed with clay or sand. -- Clay marl, a whitish, smooth, chalky clay. -- Clay mi…

bustible matter, formed in a grate or furnace where anthracite coal in used; vitrified or burnt matter ejected from a volcano; slag.

man in comparison with the soul. This cold clod of clay which we carry about with us. T. Burnet.

The Devil; Clootie; -- usually in the pl. Burns.

The Devil. "Satan, Nick, or Clootie." Burns.

To burn to charcoal; to char. [R.] Charcoal of roots, coaled into great pieces. Bacon.

zeal, or passion; spiritless; unconcerned; reserved. A cold and unconcerned spectator. T. Burnet. No cold relation is a zealous citizen. Burke.

Burnt; consumed. [Obs.] Chaucer.