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n; as, a frosted cake; frosted glass. Frosted work is introduced as a foil or contrast to burnished work. Knight.

children young. Spenser. To sever . . . the good fish from the other fry. Milton. We have burned two frigates, and a hundred and twenty small fry. Walpole.

The tail of a hare, coney, etc. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Burns.

Any matter used to produce heat by burning; that which feeds fire; combustible matter used for fires, as wood, coal, peat, etc.

Sated; surfeited. I am full of the burnt offerings of rams. Is. i. 11.

s used in the disposition of a dead human body, whether such disposition be by interment, burning, or otherwise; esp., the ceremony or solemnization of interment; obsequies; burial; -- formerly used in the plural. King James his funerals were performed very solemnly in the collegiate church at Westminster. Euller.…

To rub or scour to brightness; to clean; to burnish; as, to furbish a sword or spear. Shak. Furbish new the name of John a Gaunt. Shak.

ime fuze, a fuze adapted, either by its length or by the character of its composition, to burn a certain time before producing an explosion.

in Jamaica (Cratæva gynandra), bearing a fruit which has a strong scent of garlic, and a burning taste.

of gas coal, or sometimes of peat, wood, oil, resin, etc. It gives a brilliant light when burned, and is the common gas used for illuminating purposes.

A chandelier arranged to burn gas.

A chandelier arranged to burn gas.

A gas jet or burner.

sing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibers; any similar process of singeing.

A name given to the small trees called guelder-rose (Viburnum Opulus), cornel (Cornus sanguinea), and spindle tree (Euonymus Europæus).

Neat; trim. [Scot.] Burns.

To give. [Scot.] Burns.

To make a cut or gnaw a groove around (a tree, etc.) through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it. [U. S.]

The lap. [R.] There fell a flower into her girdlestead. Swinburne.

ng light; splendor that dazzles the eyes; a confusing and bewildering light. The frame of burnished steel that cast a glare. Dryden.