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to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood. "We'll burn his body in the holy place." Shak.

Combustible. Cotgrave.

See Burnt.

One who, or that which, burns or sets fire to anything.

A genus of perennial herbs (Poterium); especially, P.Sanguisorba, the common, or garden, burnet. Burnet moth (Zoöl.), in England, a handsome moth (Zygæna filipendula), with crimson spots on the wings. -- Burnet saxifrage. (Bot.) See Saxifrage. -- Canadian burnet, a marsh plant (Poterium Canadensis). -- Great burnet,…

in a solution of chloride of zinc, to prevent decay; -- a process invented by Sir William Burnett.

A small brook. [Scot.] Burns.

The ladybird. [Prov. Eng.]

That burns; being on fire; excessively hot; fiery.

ght; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper. The frame of burnished steel, that east a glare From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing air. Dryden. Now the village windows blaze, Burnished by the setting sun. Cunningham. Burnishing machine, a machine…

One who burnishes.

A cloaklike garment and hood woven in one piece, worn by Arabs.

A stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).

fire; scorched or dried, as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun. Burnt ear, a black, powdery fungus which destroys grain. See Smut. -- Burnt offering, something offered and burnt on an altar, as an atonement for sin; a sacrifice. The offerings of the Jews were a clean animal, as an ox, a calf,…

The bleak, a small European fish having scales of a peculiarly silvery color which are used in making artificial pearls.

Of or pertaining to alburnum; of the alburnum; as, alburnous substances.

The white and softer part of wood, between the inner bark and the hard wood or duramen; sapwood.

Reddish brown. His auburn locks on either shoulder flowed. Dryden.

A member of the radical section of the Democratic party in New York, about the middle of the 19th century, which was hostile to extension of slavery, public debts, corporate privileges, etc., and supported Van Buren against Cass for president in 1848; --opposed to Hunker. [Political Cant, U. S.]

A furnace or stove in which the fuel is contained in a hopper or chamber, and is fed to the fire as the lower stratum is consumed.