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To make or produce, as an effect or result, by the application of fire or heat; as, to burn a hole; to burn charcoal; to burn letters into a block.

obtained by destructive distillation of the inner wood of the cade. It is used as a local application in skin diseases.

lities, the science that treats of the computation of the probabilities of events, or the application of numbers to chance. -- Calculus of variations, a branch of mathematics in which the laws of dependence which bind the variable quantities together are themselves subject to change. -- Differential calculus, a metho…

A lotion of linseed oil and lime water, used as an application to burns and scalds; -- first used at the Carron iron works in Scotland.

criptures, from the laws of society or the church, or from equity and natural reason; the application of general moral rules to particular cases. The consideration of these nice and puzzling question in the science of ethics has given rise, in modern times, to a particular department of it, distinguished by the title o…

The use or application of a caustic; cautery. Ferrand.

The act of searing some morbid part by the application of a cautery or caustic; also, the effect of such application.

A burning or searing, as of morbid flesh, with a hot iron, or by application of a caustic that will burn, corrode, or destroy animal tissue.

An unctuous preparation for external application, of a consistence intermediate between that of an ointment and a plaster, so that it can be spread upon cloth without the use of heat, but does not melt when applied to the skin.

An application of chemical theory and method to the consideration of some particular subject; as, the chemistry of iron; the chemistry of indigo.

tem that aims to combine the teachings of Christ with the teachings of socialism in their applications to life; Christianized socialism; esp., the principles of this nature advocated by F. D. Maurice, Charles Kingsley, and others in England about 1850. -- Christian socialist.

ure taken upon paper prepared by the use of a sensitive salt of iron and developed by the application of chloride of gold. Abney.

A medicine or application that promotes the healing of a sore or wound, or the formation of a cicatrix.

The application to another of either physical or moral force. When the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produced by it is a nullity, so far as concerns the party coerced. When the force is moral, then the act, though voidable, is imputable to the party doing it, unless he be so paralyzed by terro…

t is strongly adhesive, and is used by surgeons as a containing for wounds; but its chief application is as a vehicle for the sensitive film in photography. Collodion process (Photog.), a process in which a film of sensitized collodion is used in preparing the plate for taking a picture. -- Styptic collodion, collodio…

An application to the eye, usually an eyewater.

Short for Composition; -- used, esp. in England, colloq. in various trade applications; as :

To unite by means of applications, as the parts of a broken bone, or the lips of a wound. [R.]

The art or process of preparing food for the table, by dressing, compounding, and the application of heat.

Any external application intended to beautify and improve the complexion.