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A vesicle of the skin, containing watery matter or serum, whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a vesicatory; a collection of serous fluid causing a bladderlike elevation of the cuticle. And painful blisters swelled my tender hands. Grainger.

en's playing blocks, etc. Now all our neighbors' chimneys smoke, And Christmas blocks are burning. Wither. All her labor was but as a block Left in the quarry. Tennyson.

Pale, without redness or glare, -- said of a flame; hence, of the color of burning brimstone, betokening the presence of ghosts or devils; as, the candle burns blue; the air was blue with oaths.

to be hot or fervid; as, his blood boils with anger. Then boiled my breast with flame and burning wrath. Surrey.

shot, etc., at or into. Next, she means to bombard Naples. Burke. His fleet bombarded and burnt down Dieppe. Wood.

graceful. Till bonny Susan sped across the plain. Gay. Far from the bonnie banks of Ayr. Burns.

put a pair of iron boots close on the leg, and drive wedges between them and the leg. Bp. Burnet.

ne. Where full measure only bounds excess. Milton. Phlegethon . . . Whose fiery flood the burning empire bounds. Dryden.

A stream or rivulet; a burn. My little boat can safely pass this perilous bourn. Spenser.

See Burnoose.

A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor; -- found at Bovey Tracey, Devonshire, England. It is of geological age of the oölite, and not of the true coal era.

A hillside; a slope; a bank; a hill. [Scot.] Burns.

Sharp passion; vexation. [Obs.] Heart-burning brame. Spenser.

A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct. Snatching a live brand from a wigwam, Mason threw it on a matted roof. Palfrey.

A young salmon or parr, in the stage in which it has transverse black bands, as if burned by a gridiron.

A pan for holding burning coals.

rt; brave; -- used of persons or their clothing, etc.; as, a braw lad. "A braw new gown." Burns.

train; -- sometimes followed by up. But no care was taken to breed him a Protestant. Bp. Burnet. His farm may not remove his children too far from him, or the trade he breeds them up in. Locke.

Refuse left in the process of making coke or burning charcoal.

To burn. [Obs.] Chaucer. Consuming fire brent his shearing house or stall. W. Browne.