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l and taste arising from products of decomposition of animal or vegetable substances when burnt in close vessels.

Prepared by means of heat; burned in. Encaustic painting (Fine Arts), painting by means of wax with which the colors are combined, and which is afterwards fused with hot irons, thus fixing the colors. -- Encaustic tile (Fine Arts), an earthenware tile which has a decorative pattern and is not wholly of one color.…

To offer incense to or upon; to burn incense. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Heating; burning. [Obs.] The wicked enchaufing or ardure of this sin [lust]. Chaucer.

Burnt to cinders. [R.]

c does; as, epidemic rage; an epidemic evil. It was the epidemical sin of the nation. Bp. Burnet.

crust, or scab, which separates from the healthy part of the body, as that produced by a burn, or the application of caustics.

l." Bacon. Promised faithfully to espouse his cause as soon as he got out of the war. Bp. Burnet.

, extracted from plants, fruits, or flowers, having each its characteristic odor, and hot burning taste. They are used in essences, perfumery, etc., and include many varieties of compounds; as lemon oil is a terpene, oil of bitter almonds an aldehyde, oil of wintergreen an ethereal salt, etc.; -- called also volatile o…

or from its former possessor; to alienate. They . . . have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods. Jer. xix. 4.

One who holds the existence of matter to be from eternity. T. Burnet.

To vanish. Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm. Burns.

e of King Arthur's mythical sword. [Written also Excalibar, Excalibor, Escalibar, and Caliburn.] Tennyson.

One who takes exceptions. T. Burnet.

plains it; definition; inerpretation; sense. Different explanations [of the Trinity]. Bp. Burnet.

Serving to fill up; expletive; superfluous; as, an expletory word. Bp. Burnet.

The sense given by an expositor. Bp. Burnet.

increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions; as, to extend liquors. G. P. Burnham.

The act or operation of burning up. Bailey.

Adam, and his facile consort Eve, Lost Paradise, deceived by me. Milton. This is treating Burns like a child, a person of so facile a disposition as not to be trusted without a keeper on the king's highway. Prof. Wilson.