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Burningly; ardently. [Obs.]

of Bren. Burnt. [Obs.]

Smooth; unwrinkled. [Scot.] Your bonnie brow was brent. Burns.

ith water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp. The Assyrians appear to have made much less use of bricks baked in the furnace than the Babylonians. Layard.

A kiln, or furnace, in which bricks are baked or burnt; or a pile of green bricks, laid loose, with arches underneath to receive the wood or fuel for burning them.

A bridge. [Scot.] Burns.

for smoothing or enlarging holes in metal; sometimes made smooth or without edges, as for burnishing pivot holes in watches; a reamer. The broach for gun barrels is commonly square and without taper.

evolutionary war. Cornwallis fought as lang's he dought, An' did the buckskins claw, man. Burns.

ter insect. E. Phillips. Bullhead whiting (Zoöl.), the kingfish of Florida (Menticirrus alburnus).

Tending to form, or to become, a calx or earthlike substance on being oxidized or burnt; as magnesium, calcium. etc.

e volatile matter, as when carbonic and acid is expelled from carbonate of calcium in the burning of limestone in order to make lime.

Hot; burning; ardent. [Obs.] Bailey.

eat; heating. Calorific rays, the invisible, heating rays which emanate from the sum, and burning and heated bodies.

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

triloba), a native of some of the Pacific islands; -- socalled because, when dry, it will burn with a bright flame, and is used by the natives as a candle. The oil has many uses. -- Candle power (Photom.), illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle. Electric can…

of mineral coal of a black color, sufficiently hard and solid to be cut and polished. It burns readily, with a clear, yellow flame, and on this account has been used as a substitute for candles.

Having pleasing of useful qualities; gentle. Burns.

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.

The quality of being canonical; canonicity. Bp. Burnet.

h, in six several cantons, the several parts of our Savior's passion are represented. Bp. Burnet.