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Burns

noun

1.

United States comedian and film actor (1896-1996). Synonyms: George Burns, Nathan Birnbaum.

2.

Celebrated Scottish poet (1759-1796). Synonym: Robert Burns.

Burn

verb

(past & past part. burned or burnt; pres. part. burning)

1.

Destroy by fire. Synonyms: burn down, fire.

2.

Shine intensely, as if with heat. Synonym: glow. "The candles were burning"

3.

Undergo combustion. Synonym: combust.

4.

Cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort. Synonyms: bite, sting.

5.

Cause to burn or combust. Synonym: combust. "We combust coal and other fossil fuels"

6.

Feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion. "He was burning to try out his new skies"

7.

Cause to undergo combustion. Synonym: incinerate. "The car burns only Diesel oil"

8.

Burn at the stake.

9.

Spend (significant amounts of money).

10.

Feel hot or painful.

11.

Burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent. Synonyms: cauterise, cauterize.

12.

Get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun. Synonym: sunburn.

13.

Create by duplicating data. Synonym: cut. "Burn a CD"

14.

Use up (energy). Synonyms: burn off, burn up.

15.

Burn with heat, fire, or radiation.

noun

1.

Pain that feels hot as if it were on fire. Synonym: burning.

2.

A browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun. Synonyms: sunburn, suntan, tan.

3.

An injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation.

4.

A place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body). Synonym: burn mark.

5.

Damage inflicted by fire.

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"Burns" Quotes from Famous Books

... from me just as the women at the Settlement do. I'm going to present your Susan with a frock out of that linen and real Valenciennes I bought in the city last week for a blouse for my own self, and I'm going to give the making to that little Burns woman, who sews so beautifully and cheaply to support her seven offspring, while Mr. Burns supports 'The Last Chance' saloon down at the end of the road. In that way I'll be aiding two of Mr. Goodloe's flock at the same time, and when I told him my decision he laughed and said be sure and have it ...

— The Heart's Kingdom • Maria Thompson Daviess

... statutory limit had been exceeded, he had been 'not drunk, but was intoxicated,'—a subtle point for bacchanalian casuists, and very ill next day. He lays it on the drunken habits of the country which, he says, are very bad, and with the recollection of Burns' temptations in Dumfries we may admit that they were. His father, too, was now about to entail his estate, and Bozzy's predilection for feudal principles and heirs male brought things to a deadlock. He appealed to Lord Hailes, who admitted conscience ...

— James Boswell - Famous Scots Series • William Keith Leask

... they'd shave differently or drop their burrs and gutturals or cover their knees or cease lying about the bagpipe. And you can't get it out of the blood. Your mother[21] becomes provoked when I say these things, and I shouldn't wonder if you yourself resent them and break out quoting Burns. Now the Highlands can't support a population larger than the mountain counties of Kentucky. Now your Kentucky feud is a mere disgrace to civilization. But your Highland feud is celebrated in song and story. Every clan keeps itself together to this day by its history and by its plaid. At a turn ...

— The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I • Burton J. Hendrick

... BURNS AND SCALDS.—Air should be shut out; otherwise treat like blister, care being taken not to remove skin. Do not put on anything that will stick and do not try to remove anything that has a tendency to stick; put on linseed oil and water, cotton and a ...

— Military Instructors Manual • James P. Cole and Oliver Schoonmaker

... nation has ever before shown, in the general tone of its language—in the general current of its literature—so constant a habit of hallowing its passions and confirming its principles by direct association with the charm, or power, of nature. The writings of Scott and Burns—and yet more, of the far greater poets than Burns who gave Scotland her traditional ballads,—furnish you in every stanza—almost in every line—with examples of this association of natural scenery with the passions; [Footnote: ...

— The Two Paths • John Ruskin

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