burn
BURN, v.t. pret. and pp. burned or burnt. L. pruna, and perhaps, furnus, fornaz, a furnace. The primary sense is, to rage, to act with violent excitement.
1. To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; frequently with up; as, to burn up wood.
2. To expel the volatile parts and reduce to charcoal by fire; as, to burn wood into coal. Hence, in popular language, to burn a kiln of wood, is to char the wood.
3. To cleanse of soot by burning; to inflame; as, to burn a chimney; an extensive use of the word.
4. To harden in the fire; to bake or harden by heat; as, to burn bricks or a brick kiln.
5. To scorch; to affect by heat; as, to burn the clothes or the legs by the fire; to burn meat or bread in cookery.
6. To injure by fire; to affect the flesh by heat.
7. To dry up or dissipate; with up; as, to burn up tears.
8. To dry excessively; to cause to wither by heat; as,the sun burns the grass or plants.
9. To heat or inflame; to affect with excessive stimulus; as, ardent spirits burn the stomach.
10. To affect with heat in cookery, so as to give the food a disagreeable taste. Hence the phrase burnt to.
11. To calcine with heat or fire; to expel the volatile matter from substances, so that they are easily pulverized; as, to burn oyster shells, or lime-stone.
12. To affect with excess of heat; as, the fever burns a patient.
13. To subject to the action of fire; to heat or dry; as, to burn colors.
To burn up, to consume entirely by fire.
To burn out, to burn till the fuel is all consumed.
BURN, v.i. To be on fire; to flame; as, the mount burned with fire.
1. To shine; to sparkle.
O prince! O wherefore burn your eyes?
2. To be inflamed with passion or desire; as, to burn with anger or love.
3. To act with destructive violence, as fire.
Shall thy wrath burn like fire?
4. To be in commotion; to rage with destructive violence.
The groan still deepens and the combat burns.
5. To be heated; to be in a glow; as, the face burns.
6. To be affected with a sensation of heat, pain or acidity; as, the heart burns.
7. To feel excess of heat; as, the flesh burns by a fire; a patient burns with a fever.
To burn out, to burn till the fuel is exhausted and the fire ceases.
BURN, n. A hurt or injury of the flesh caused by the action of fire.
1. The operation of burning or baking, as in brickmaking; as, they have a good burn.
burned
BURNED, BURNT, pp. Consumed with fire; scorched or dried with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire.
burning
BURNING, ppr. Consuming with fire; flaming; scorching; hardening by fire; calcining; charring; raging as fire; glowing.
BURNING, n. Combustion; the act of expelling volatile matter and reducing to ashes, or to a calx; a fire; inflammation; the heat or raging of passion. In surgery, actual cautery; cauterization.
BURNING, a. Powerful; vehement; as a burning shame; a burning scent.
1. Much heated; very hot; scorching.
The burning plains of India.