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Having the quality of burning. [R.] I. Watts.

The act of burning or searing. [R.] Sir W. Petty.

eric pressure and hence also at a lower temperature, which largely obviates the danger of burning the sugar, and shortens the process. -- Vacuum pump. Same as Pulsometer, 1. -- Vacuum tube (Phys.), a glass tube provided with platinum electrodes and exhausted, for the passage of the electrical discharge; a Geissler tu…

A white crystalline aldehyde having a burning taste and characteristic odor of vanilla. It is extracted from vanilla pods, and is also obtained by the decomposition of coniferin, and by the oxidation of eugenol.

temperature may be limited exactly to the required degree. -- Vapor burner, a burner for burning a vaporized hydrocarbon. -- Vapor density (Chem.), the relative weight of gases and vapors as compared with some specific standard, usually hydrogen, but sometimes air. The vapor density of gases and vaporizable substance…

To cut the turf from, as for burning. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

ebore (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.

o Vesta, and to the service of watching the sacred fire, which was to be perpetually kept burning upon her altar.

va, cinders, steam, sulphur gases, and the like, are ejected; -- often popularly called a burning mountain.

The burning bush; -- said to be called after a quack medicine made from it.

aving purple capsules which in dehiscence expose the scarlet-ariled seeds; -- called also burning bush.

etimes fired on shipboard at 8 p. m., when the night watch begins. -- Watch light, a low-burning lamp used by watchers at night; formerly, a candle having a rush wick. -- Watch night, The last night of the year; -- so called by the Methodists, Moravians, and others, who observe it by holding religious meetings lastin…

etal pipe made to be extended vertically by sections, and used for discharging water upon burning buildings.

Specifically (Med.), a flat, burning or itching eminence on the skin, such as is produced by a mosquito bite, or in urticaria.

A firework which, while burning, is caused to revolve on an axis by the reaction of the escaping gases.

To cause to fade, and become dry. The sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth. James i. 11.

The art or practice of burning pictures on wood with a hot iron; -- called also poker painting. See Poker picture, under Poker.

also flowers of zinc, philosopher's wool, nihil album, etc. The impure oxide produced by burning the metal, roasting its ores, or in melting brass, is called also pompholyx, and tutty. -- Zinc spinel (Min.), a mineral, related to spinel, consisting essentially of the oxides of zinc and aluminium; gahnite. -- Zinc vi…