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Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful; as, burning zeal. Like a young hound upon a burning scent. Dryden. Burning bush (Bot.), an ornamental shrub (Euonymus atropurpureus), bearing a crimson berry.

Discontent; secret enmity. Swift. The transaction did not fail to leave heartburnings. Palfrey.

Burning within. Her inburning wrath she gan abate. Spenser.

Sunburn; tan. Boyle.

through a cloud, or between the leaves of trees; the effect of moonlight, candlelight, or burning bodies. Fairholt.

The act of burning, or heating to dryness; the state of being thus heated or dried. [Obs.] Harvey.

s, to allay the severity of affliction or the bitterness of adversity. It would allay the burning quality of that fell poison. Shak.

ixture of two of these forming a colorless liquid with a peculiar cough-exciting odor and burning taste, the chief constituent of fusel oil. It is used as a source of amyl compounds, such as amyl acetate, amyl nitrite, etc.

A utensil for supporting wood when burning in a fireplace, one being placed on each side; a firedog; as, a pair of andirons.

The burning of metallic colors into glass, earthenware, etc.

Divination by inspecting a burning coal.

Hot or burning; causing a sensation of burning; fiery; as, ardent spirits, that is, distilled liquors; an ardent fever.

Burning; ardent. [R.] Lo! further on, Where flames the arduous Spirit of Isidore. Cary.

A sort of hand gun or firearm a contrivance answering to a trigger, by which the burning match was applied. The musket was a later invention. [Written also harquebus.]

Any seizure by power, physical or moral. The sad stories of fire from heaven, the burning of his sheep, etc., . . . were sad arrests to his troubled spirit. Jer. Taylor.

The malicious burning of a dwelling house or outhouse of another man, which by the common law is felony; the malicious and voluntary firing of a building or ship. Wharton.

Paper impregnated with saltpeter. The fumes from the burning paper are often inhaled as an alleviative by asthmatics.

An execution of such sentence, by the civil power, esp. the burning of a heretic. It was usually held on Sunday, and was made a great public solemnity by impressive forms and ceremonies.

luence; destructive. "Baleful enemies." Shak. Four infernal rivers that disgorge Into the burning lake their baleful streams. Milton.

A name given to several species of Salsola from which soda is made, by burning the barilla in heaps and lixiviating the ashes.