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To burn. [Obs.] Greenhill.

torch, esp. one made by combining together a number of thick wicks invested with a quick-burning substance (anciently, perhaps, wax; in modern times, pitch or the like); hence, any torch.

A stream of burning vapor or gas, emitting light and heat; darting or streaming fire; a blaze; a fire.

Ardent; passionate; burning with zeal; irrepressibly earnest; as, a flaming proclomation or harangue.

A game in which the players catch raisins out burning brandy, and swallow them blazing. Johnson.

To burn with an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle flares.

A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for coloring and giving a fictious strength to liquors. Flash light, or Flashing light, a kind of light shown by lighthouses, produced by the revolution of reflectors, so as to show a flash of light every few seconds, alternating with periods of dimness. Knight. -- Flash i…

t degree of temperature at which a volatile oil gives off vapor in sufficient quantity to burn, or flash, on the approach of a flame, used as a test of the comparative safety of oils, esp. kerosene; a flashing point of 100º F. is regarded as a fairly safe standard. The burning point of the oil is usually from ten to th…

A method of preserving gilding unburnished, by touching with size. Knolles.

To put in a state of agitation; to excite or alarm. H. Swinburne.

A thin leaf of sheet copper silvered and burnished, and afterwards coated with transparent colors mixed with isinglass; -- employed by jewelers to give color or brilliancy to pastes and inferior stones. Ure.

Foreign; alien. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.

ents in a school; a class; also, a class or rank in society. "Ladies of a high form." Bp. Burnet.

To incrust (the bore of a gun) with burnt powder in the process of firing.

ail matter is to free of postage. I have said so much, that, if I had not a frank, I must burn my letter and begin again. Cowper.

. A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath.

A fragrant, aromatic resin, or gum resin, burned as an incense in religious rites or for medicinal fumigation. The best kinds now come from East Indian trees, of the genus Boswellia; a commoner sort, from the Norway spruce (Abies excelsa) and other coniferous trees. The frankincense of the ancient Jews is still unident…

Marked with freckles; spotted. "The freckled trout." Dryden. The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover. Shak.

ely, by of. Princes declaring themselves free from the obligations of their treaties. Bp. Burnet.

Frostily. [Obs.] The parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire. Milton.