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Without a bourn or limit.

A mineral of a steel-gray to black color and metallic luster, occurring crystallized, often in twin crystals shaped like cogwheels (wheel ore), also massive. It is a sulphide of antimony, lead, and copper.

See Burnoose.

A burner consisting of two or more concentric Argand burners (the inner rising above the outer) and a central tube by which oxygen gas or common air is supplied.

See under Battery, and Burner.

o 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.

Combustible. Cotgrave.

See Burnt.

One who, or that which, burns or sets fire to anything.

A genus of perennial herbs (Poterium); especially, P.Sanguisorba, the common, or garden, burnet. Burnet moth (Zoöl.), in England, a handsome moth (Zygæna filipendula), with crimson spots on the wings. -- Burnet saxifrage. (Bot.) See Saxifrage. -- Canadian burnet, a marsh plant (Poterium Canadensis). -- Great burnet,…

n a solution of chloride of zinc, to prevent decay; -- a process invented by Sir William Burnett.

A small brook. [Scot.] Burns.

The ladybird. [Prov. Eng.]

That burns; being on fire; excessively hot; fiery.

ht; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper. The frame of burnished steel, that east a glare From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing air. Dryden. Now the village windows blaze, Burnished by the setting sun. Cunningham. Burnishing machine, a machine f…

One who burnishes.

A combination cloak and hood worn by women. [Variously written bournous, bernouse, bornous, etc.]

A stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).

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 animal, as an ox, a calf,…

An obscure road; a way turning from the main road. Sir P. Sidney.