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

blow of a heavy stamp, as ore in a mill. I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small. Deut. ix. 21.

me first. Dryden. I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn. Longfellow.

es inspiration in some diseases, especially apoplexy; hence, hoarsely breathing; snoring. Burning, stertorous breath that hurt her cheek. Mrs. Browning. The day has ebbed away, and it is night in his room, before his stertorous breathing lulls. Dickens.

ace of stewing or seething; a place where hot bathes are furnished; a hothouse. [Obs.] As burning Ætna from his boiling stew Doth belch out flames. Spenser. The Lydians were inhibited by Cyrus to use any armor, and give themselves to baths and stews. Abp. Abbot.

produced by the action of nascent hydrogen on antimony. It has a characteristic odor and burns with a characteristic greenish flame. Formerly called also antimoniureted hydrogen.

n the sand her ship sticked so fast. Chaucer. They sticked not to give their bodies to be burnt. Sir T. Browne.

A mark made with a burning iron; a brand.

A vessel in which disinfectants are burned.

the side. He was taken with a cold and with stitches, which was, indeed, a pleurisy. Bp. Burnet.

Cold as a stone. Stone-cold without, within burnt with love's flame. Fairfax.

ship to an enemy. That the English ships of war should not strike in the Danish seas. Bp. Burnet.

Spirituous liquor. [Scot.] Burns.

A stumbling-block. This stumbling-stone we hope to take away. T. Burnet.

A public sale or auction. [R.] Bp. Burnet.

art; essential import; purport. This edition is the same in substance with the Latin. Bp. Burnet. It is insolent in words, in manner; but in substance it is not only insulting, but alarming. Burke.

ur dioxide (Chem.), a colorless gas, SO2, of a pungent, suffocating odor, produced by the burning of sulphur. It is employed chiefly in the production of sulphuric acid, and as a reagent in bleaching; -- called also sulphurous anhydride, and formerly sulphurous acid. -- Sulphur ether (Chem.), a sulphide of hydrocarbon…

f, sulphur; especially, an apparatus for fumigating or bleaching by means of the fumes of burning sulphur.

Exposure to the fumes of burning sulphur, as in bleaching; the process of bleaching by exposure to the fumes of sulphur.

Very hot, burning, and oppressive; as, Libya's sultry deserts. Such as, born beneath the burning sky And sultry sun, betwixt the tropics lie. Dryden.