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A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet. It was quite a craze with him [Burns] to have his Jean dressed genteelly. Prof. Wilson.

To burn; to reduce to ashes by the action of fire, either directly or in an oven or retort; to incremate or incinerate; as, to cremate a corpse, instead of burying it.

A burning; esp., the act or practice of cremating the dead. Without cremation . . . of their bodies. Sir T. Browne.

Wood-tar oil; an oily antiseptic liquid, of a burning smoky taste, colorless when pure, but usually colored yellow or brown by impurity or exposure. It is a complex mixture of various phenols and their ethers, and is obtained by the distillation of wood tar, especially that of beechwood.

An open frame or basket of iron, filled with combustible material, to be burned as a beacon; an open lamp or firrepan carried on a pole in nocturnal processions. Starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus. Milton. As a cresset true that darts its length Of beamy luster from a tower of strength. W…

That which is crisp or brittle; the state of being crisp or brittle; as, burned to a crisp; specifically, the rind of roasted pork; crackling.

a fortification critically situated. Coming critically the night before the session. Bp. Burnet.

ritic. The rancorous and reptile crew of poeticules, who decompose into criticasters. Swinburne.

Brisk; lively; bold; self-complacent. [Scot.] Burns.

To gather or contract into a hard crust; to become incrusted. The place that was burnt . . . crusted and healed. Temple.

arts, magic. [Obs.] Many . . . which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them. Acts xix. 19.

A player at the game called curling. Burns.

; -- sometimes applied to the rumbling produced by a slight attack of the gripes. [Scot.] Burns.

e. "Dabbling here and there with the text." Atterbury. During the ferst year at Dumfries, Burns for the ferst time began to dabble in politics. J. C. Shairp.

g; declination; descent; slope. The declension of the land from that place to the sea. T. Burnet.

ope. Two and a half per cent should be deducted out of the pay of the foreign troops. Bp. Burnet. We deduct from the computation of our years that part of our time which is spent in . . . infancy. Norris.

Burning with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; hence, slightly explosive; liable to snap and crackle when heated, as salt.

To burn with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; also, to snap and crackle with slight explosions when heated, as salt.

A burning up; conflagration. "Innumerable deluges and deflagrations." Bp. Pearson.

To deprive of horns; to prevent the growth or the horns of (cattle) by burning their ends soon after they start. See Dishorn. "Dehorning cattle." Farm Journal (1886).