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Overburned bricks. Simmonds.

A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which the dead are burned; hence, any pile to be burnt. For nine long nights, through all the dusky air, The pyres thick flaming shot a dismal glare. Pope.

One who reaps. The sun-burned reapers wiping their foreheads. Macaulay.

Lime in the lump after it is burned; quicklime. [Eng.]

A device in a candlestick to hold the ends of candles, so that they be burned.

One who uses a sickle; a reaper. You sunburned sicklemen, of August weary. Shak.

lities of the fixed lines of spectra produced by flames in which different substances are burned or evaporated, each substance having its own characteristic system of lines. -- Thermal spectrum, a spectrum of rays considered solely with reference to their heating effect, especially of those rays which produce no lumin…

ieves, and treachers by spherical predominance. Shak. Though the stars were suns, and overburned Their spheric limitations. Mrs. Browning. Spherical angle, Spherical coördinate, Spherical excess, etc. See under Angle, Coordinate, etc. -- Spherical geometry, that branch of geometry which treats of spherical magnitudes;…

The piece of timber to which a martyr was affixed to be burned; hence, martyrdom by fire.

A vessel in which disinfectants are burned.

A place where tiles are made or burned; a tile kiln.

ting furnace where the materials are put in. -- Tunnel kiln, a limekiln in which coal is burned, as distinguished from a flame kiln, in which wood or peat is used. -- Tunnel net, a net with a wide mouth at one end and narrow at the other. -- Tunnel pit, Tunnel shaft, a pit or shaft sunk from the top of the ground to…

ral clays variously colored by the oxides of iron and manganese. It is commonly heated or burned before being used, and is then called burnt umber; when not heated, it is called raw umber. See Burnt umber, below.

The act of burning, or the state of being burned. [R.] Johnson.

Blackened as if burned.

gether and prevent motion. It is clasped into two notches, one on each side of the crack, burned into the wall with a cautery iron.

in candles, or other material used for illumination, in small successive portions, to be burned. But true it is, that when the oil is spent The light goes out, and wick is thrown away. Spenser.

ks or land, and broken, or otherwise rendered useless, by violence and fracture; as, they burned the wreck.

Zinc oxide (Chem.), the oxide of zinc, ZnO, forming a light fluffy sublimate when zinc is burned; -- called also flowers of zinc, philosopher's wool, nihil album, etc. The impure oxide produced by burning the metal, roasting its ores, or in melting brass, is called also pompholyx, and tutty. -- Zinc spinel (Min.), a m…