Search the Dictionary

A piece of burning wood. L'Estrange.

To make a hissing sound, as a burning fuse.

A burning; great heat; inflammation. [Obs.] Lust causeth a flagrancy in the eyes. Bacon.

Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent. The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. Prior. A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey. Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker.

torch, esp. one made by combining together a number of thick wicks invested with a quick-burning substance (anciently, perhaps, wax; in modern times, pitch or the like); hence, any torch.

A stream of burning vapor or gas, emitting light and heat; darting or streaming fire; a blaze; a fire.

Ardent; passionate; burning with zeal; irrepressibly earnest; as, a flaming proclomation or harangue.

A game in which the players catch raisins out burning brandy, and swallow them blazing. Johnson.

ls, esp. kerosene; a flashing point of 100º F. is regarded as a fairly safe standard. The burning point of the oil is usually from ten to thirty degree above the flashing point of its vapor.

. A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath.

Any matter used to produce heat by burning; that which feeds fire; combustible matter used for fires, as wood, coal, peat, etc.

s used in the disposition of a dead human body, whether such disposition be by interment, burning, or otherwise; esp., the ceremony or solemnization of interment; obsequies; burial; -- formerly used in the plural. King James his funerals were performed very solemnly in the collegiate church at Westminster. Euller.…

in Jamaica (Cratæva gynandra), bearing a fruit which has a strong scent of garlic, and a burning taste.

To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn. Did not his temples glow In the same sultry winds and acrching heats Addison. The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands. Gay.

A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning. Grate surface (Steam, Boiler) the area of the surface of the grate upon which the fuel lies in the furnace.

ut an axis; rotation; revolution. The gyrations of an ascending balloon. De Quincey. If a burning coal be nimbly moved round in a circle, with gyrations continually repeated, the whole circle will appear like fire. Sir I. Newton.

An uneasy, burning sensation in the stomach, often attended with an inclination to vomit. It is sometimes idiopathic, but is often a symptom of often complaints.

oor of a fireplace; also, a corresponding part of a stove. There was a fire on the hearth burning before him. Jer. xxxvi. 22. Where fires thou find'st unraked and hearths unswept. There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry. Shak.

Sacrifice or loss of many lives, as by the burning of a theater or a ship.

huge impatience he inly swelt More for great sorrow that he could not pass, Than for the burning torment which he felt. Spenser.