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To burn too much; to be overzealous.

To burn in the process of distillation; as, to still-burn brandy.

A circle or cluster of gas-burners for lighting and ventilating public buildings.

To burn or discolor by the sun; to tan. Sunburnt and swarthy though she be. Dryden.

Sunburn; tan. Boyle.

A certificate given to one who prosecutes a felon to conviction, exempting him from certain parish and ward offices.

A genus of shrubs having opposite, petiolate leaves and cymose flowers, several species of which are cultivated as ornamental, as the laurestine and the guelder-rose.

To renounce on oath. Bp. Burnet.

A small fresh-water fish (Leuciscus alburnus); the bleak.

To receive with favor; to approve. The Lord accept thy burnt sacrifice. Ps. xx. 3. Peradventure he will accept of me. Gen. xxxii. 20.

An onset, attack, or fit of disease. The first access looked like an apoplexy. Burnet.

through a cloud, or between the leaves of trees; the effect of moonlight, candlelight, or burning bodies. Fairholt.

ng; as, acrid temper, mind, writing. Acrid poison, a poison which irritates, corrodes, or burns the parts to which it is applied.

An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico.

To burn up. [Obs.] Bacon.

Looking as if or scorched; sunburnt. A tall, thin man, of an adust complexion. Sir W. Scott.

Burnt; adust. [Obs.] Howell.

That may be burnt. [Obs.]

The act of burning, or heating to dryness; the state of being thus heated or dried. [Obs.] Harvey.

he act of informing or notifying; notification. [Archaic] An advertisement of danger. Bp. Burnet.