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The evening preceding Allhallows or All Saints' Day. [Scot.] Burns.

l village; a little cluster of houses in the country. The country wasted, and the hamlets burned. Dryden.

harbors men. Shak. The bare suspicion made it treason to harbor the person suspected. Bp. Burnet. Let not your gentle breast harbor one thought of outrage. Rowe.

The act of harvesting; also, that which is harvested. Swinburne.

pile. [Now Low or Humorous] A vast heap, both of places of scripture and quotations. Bp. Burnet. I have noticed a heap of things in my life. R. L. Stevenson.

oor of a fireplace; also, a corresponding part of a stove. There was a fire on the hearth burning before him. Jer. xxxvi. 22. Where fires thou find'st unraked and hearths unswept. There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry. Shak.

ayers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum.

Subject to the payment of a heriot. Burn.

A low bush (Viburnum lantanoides) having long, straggling branches and handsome flowers. It is found in the Northern United States. Called also shinhopple.

A burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was consumed by fire, among the Jews and some pagan nations. Milton.

e or case that covers or terminates the feet of certain animals, as horses, oxen, etc. On burnished hooves his war horse trode. Tennyson.

One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering. "Joab . . . caught hold on the horns of the altar." 1 Kings ii. 28.

The consecrated wafer; the host. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.

To rise; to swell; to heave; to cause to swell. [Obs. or Scot.] Holland. Burns.

A follower of John Huss, the Bohemian reformer, who was adjudged a heretic and burnt alive in 1415.

bon, as methane, benzene, etc.; also, by extension, any of their derivatives. Hydrocarbon burner, furnace, stove, a burner, furnace, or stove with which liquid fuel, as petroleum, is used.

To take fire; to begin to burn.

"Not found," though in some jurisdictions "Ignored" is still used. Wharton (Law Dict. ). Burn.

An aisle. [Obs.] H. Swinburne.

In a ill manner; badly; weakly. How ill this taper burns! Shak. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay. Goldsmith.