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With an intent to commit burglary; in the manner of a burglar. Blackstone.

rn clay in making bricks or pottery; to burn wood so as to produce charcoal; to burn limestone for the lime.

roys 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, a goat, or a sheep; or some vegetable substance, as bread, or ears of wheat or barley. Called also burnt sacrifice. [2 Sam. xxiv. 22.]…

A mixture of shot, nails, stones, pieces of old iron, etc., fired from a cannon at short range, in an emergency. [R.]

a solid head with a face cut into a number of rows of such points; -- used for dressing stone.

by merchant strangers; -- so called because paid to the king's butler for the king. Blackstone.

The mass of stone or solid work at the end of a bridge, by which the extreme arches are sustained, or by which the end of a bridge without arches is supported. Butment cheek (Carp.), the part of a mortised timber surrounding the mortise, and against which the shoulders of the tenon bear. Knight.

ake secure with buttons; -- often followed by up. He was a tall, fat, long-bodied man, buttoned up to the throat in a tight green coat. Dickens.

A liquid ketone obtained by heating calcium butyrate.

To whisper; to communicate, as tales, in an under tone; to spread, as report, by whispers, or secretly. I will buzz abroad such prophecies That Edward shall be fearful of his life. Shak.

side or incidental blow; an accidental blow. With their by-blows they did split the very stones in pieces. Bunyan.

The small and nearly cubical stone building, toward which all Mohammedans must pray. [Written also kaaba.]

Fastened with, or attached to, a cable or rope. "The cabled stone." Dyer.

A stone of convex form, highly polished, but not faceted; also, the style of cutting itself. Such stones are said to be cut en cabochon.

A place of confinement for malefactors Shak. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage. Lovelace.

A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument. Now here let us place the gray stone of her cairn. Campbell.

A foul vein, like chalcedony, in some precious stones.

r, as when carbonic and acid is expelled from carbonate of calcium in the burning of limestone in order to make lime.

ction of heat; to expel volatile matter from by means of heat, as carbonic acid from limestone, and thus (usually) to produce disintegration; as to, calcine bones.

al in its crystallization, and thus distinguished from aragonite. It includes common limestone, chalk, and marble. Called also calc-spar and calcareous spar.