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Consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried, as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun. Burnt ear, a black, powdery fungus which destroys grain. See Smut. -- Burnt offering, something offered and burnt on an altar, as an atonement for sin; a sacrifice. The offerings of the Jews were a clean…

A scholarship or charitable foundation in a university, as in scotland; a sum given to enable a student to pursue his studies. "No woman of rank or fortune but would have a bursary in her gift." Southey.

A fund or foundation for the maintenance of needy scholars in their studies; also, the sum given to the beneficiaries. [Scot.]

The nut of the Caryocar butyrosum and C. nuciferum, of S. America; -- called also Souari nut.

al Christians, which treats of the nature of god and the mystery of human existence. It assumed that every letter, word, number, and accent of Scripture contains a hidden sense; and it teaches the methods of interpretation for ascertaining these occult meanings. The cabalists pretend even to foretell events by this mea…

A lowbred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow. [Cant] Thackeray.

Like a cad; lowbred and presuming.

west coast of Africa. Calabar bean, The of a climbing legumious plant (Physostigma venenosum), a native of tropical Africa. It is highly poisonous. It is used to produce contraction of the pupil of the eye; also in tetanus, neuralgia, and rheumatic diseases; -- called also ordeal bean, being used by the negroes in tri…

To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant. Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain Shak.

The act of one who calls; a crying aloud, esp. in order to summon, or to attact the attention of, some one.

Of the callosum.

Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden.

oducing heat; heating. Calorific rays, the invisible, heating rays which emanate from the sum, and burning and heated bodies.

nder their helmets. (c) Such a cap, worn by the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church. To assume the calotte, to become a priest.

A gum resembing ordinary camphor, obtained from a tree (Dryobalanops camphora) growing in Sumatra and Borneo; -- called also Malay camphor, camphor of Borneo, or borneol. See Borneol.

twelve signs of the zodiac. The first point is the northern limit of the sun's course in summer; hence, the sign of the summer solstice. See Tropic.

One who consumes candles by being up late for study or dissipation. A bookworm, a candlewaster. B. Jonson.

Growing white, or assuming a color approaching to white.

To complete; to crown; to bring to the highest point or consummation; as, to cap the climax of absurdity.

Money, property, or stock employed in trade, manufactures, etc.; the sum invested or lent, as distinguished from the income or interest. See Capital stock, under Capital, a.