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Rectified oil of turpentine, used for burning in lamps, and as a common solvent in varnishes.

A boat used by rude nations, formed of trunk of a tree, excavated, by cutting of burning, into a suitable shape. It is propelled by a paddle or paddles, or sometimes by sail, and has no rudder. Others devised the boat of one tree, called the canoe. Raleigh.

ast Indies. When held up to the sun, it loses its deep tinge, and becomes of the color of burning coal. The name belongs for the most part to ruby sapphire, though it has been also given to red spinel and garnet.

A burning or gnawing pain, or feeling of distress, referred to the region of the heart, accompanied with cardisc palpitation; heartburn. It is usually a symptom of indigestion.

le of destroying the texture of anything or eating away its substance by chemical action; burning; corrosive; searing.

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.

To perfume with odors from burning gums and spices. The Salii sing and cense his altars round. Dryden.

Little sticks; twigs for burning; fuel. Johnson.

Said of potash, probably in reference to its having been obtained from billets of wood by burning. [Obs.]

Capable of taking fire and burning; apt to catch fire; inflammable. Sin is to the soul like fire to combustible matter. South.

The state of burning.

J. Harris The utmost that could be obtained was that her sentence should be commuted from burning to beheading. Macaulay.

The act of burning different things together. [Obs.]

Burning together in a common flame. [R.] "The conflagrant mass." Milton.

A fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning.

considerable, that some urns have had inscriptions on them expressing that the lamps were burning. Bp. Wilkins. Eternity is infinitely the most considerable duration. Tillotson.

n one consort there sat Cruel revenge and rancorious despite, Disloyal treason, and heart-burning hate. Spenser. Lord, place me in thy consort. Herbert.

ar at hand; easy of access. [Colloq.] Hereties used to be brought thither, convenient for burning. Thackeray.

the form of a heavy, transparent, crystalline substance, easily soluble, and of an acrid, burning taste. It is a virulent poison, a powerful antiseptic, and an exellent antisyphilitic; called also mercuric bichloride. It is to be carefully distinguished from calomel, the mild chloride of mercury.

Signals made by burning lights of different colors and used by vessels at sea, and in the life-saving service; -- named after their inventor.