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Specifically (Med.), a flat, burning or itching eminence on the skin, such as is produced by a mosquito bite, or in urticaria.

A firework which, while burning, is caused to revolve on an axis by the reaction of the escaping gases.

Gorse; furze. See Furze. Through the whins, and by the cairn. Burns.

To whine. [Scot.] Burns.

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.

als, which, kindled, is very hard to quench; Greek fire. Brimstone, pitch, wildfire . . . burn cruelly, and hard to quench. Bacon.

wild or unfrequented wood. Also used adjectively; as, wildwood flowers; wildwood echoes. Burns.

To cause to fade, and become dry. The sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth. James i. 11.

; out of reach of; beyond. Eternity, before the world and after, is without our reach. T. Burnet.

Any cavity containing and enveloping anything. The center spike of gold Which burns deep in the bluebell's womb. R. Browning.

e genus Thalurania. The males are bright blue, or green and blue. -- Wood offering, wood burnt on the altar. We cast the lots . . . for the wood offering. Neh. x. 34. -- Wood oil (Bot.), a resinous oil obtained from several East Indian trees of the genus Dipterocarpus, having properties similar to those of copaiba, an…

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

The art or practice of burning pictures on wood with a hot iron; -- called also poker painting. See Poker picture, under Poker.

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…