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omission, an unfilled line, etc. All modern trash is Set forth with numerous breaks and dashes. Swift.

Refuse coal, coal ashes, and cinders, used in the burning of bricks.

To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood. "We'll burn his body in the holy place." Shak.

g within something, as earth, etc.; to conceal by covering; to hide; as, to bury coals in ashes; to bury the face in the hands. And all their confidence Under the weight of mountains buried deep. Milton.

The eyelashes.

Pertaining to the cilia, or eyelashes. Also applied to special parts of the eye itself; as, the ciliary processes of the choroid coat; the ciliary muscle, etc.

Cineration; reduction to ashes. [Obs.]

Like ashes; ash-colored; cinerous.

Pertaining to ashes; containing ashes. Cinerary urns, vessels used by the ancients to preserve the ashes of the dead when burned.

The reducing of anything to ashes by combustion; cinefaction.

Like ashes; ash-colored; grayish.

Somewhat cinereous; of a color somewhat resembling that of wood ashes.

Like ashes; having the color of ashes, -- as the cortical substance of the brain.

Full of ashes. [Obs.]

ion; contradiction; as between differing or contending interests, views, purposes, etc. Clashes between popes and kings. Denham.

A melting together; the act of melting; fusion. When sand and ashes are well melted together and suffered to cool, there is generated, by the colliquation, that sort of concretion we call "glass". Boyle.

A skylight on an upper deck with frames and sashes of various shapes, to admit light to a cabin or lower deck.

and refresh; allaying heat. "The cooling brook." Goldsmith. Cooling card, something that dashes hopes. [Obs.] -- Cooling time (Law), such a lapse of time as ought, taking all the circumstances of the case in view, to produce a subsiding of passion previously provoked. Wharton.

Glittering in flashes; flashing. Howell.

To glitter in flashes; to flash.