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adjective

Burning adj.

1.

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

2.

Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful; as, burning zeal. "Like a young hound upon a burning scent."

Burning bush (Bot.), an ornamental shrub (Euonymus atropurpureus), bearing a crimson berry.

noun

Burning n. The act of consuming by fire or heat, or of subjecting to the effect of fire or heat; the state of being on fire or excessively heated.

Burning fluid, any volatile illuminating oil, as the lighter petroleums (naphtha, benzine), or oil of turpentine (camphine), but esp. a mixture of the latter with alcohol.

Burning glass, a convex lens of considerable size, used for producing an intense heat by converging the sun's rays to a focus.

Burning house (Metal.), the furnace in which tin ores are calcined, to sublime the sulphur and arsenic from the pyrites.

Burning mirror, a concave mirror, or a combination of plane mirrors, used for the same purpose as a burning glass.

Synonyms: Combustion; fire; conflagration; flame; blaze.

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Etymology of 'Burning'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Burning" Quotes from Famous Books

... dangers of pestilence, for you noticed that it was reeking with filth and bad smells, and safely by the falling walls, for the workmen are tearing down everything shaky. Look out, there, or you will get scorched by that huge bonfire. They are burning all over town. Everything that the men can lift is dragged to these fires and burned. This is the plan for clearing the town. You noticed it at the bridge and you notice it here. Men with axes and saws are cutting timbers too big to be moved, and men with ropes ...

— The Johnstown Horror • James Herbert Walker

... to deliver them from the Unseen. And one would almost have deemed that the sculptured Monster with the enigmatical Woman-face and Lion-form had strange thoughts in its huge granite brain; for when the full day sprang in glory over the desert and illumined its large features with a burning saffron radiance, its cruel lips still smiled as though yearning to speak and propound the terrible riddle of old time; ...

— Ziska - The Problem of a Wicked Soul • Marie Corelli

... place not only disclaims any share in the destruction of the Abbey; but he expressly states he exerted himself for its preservation. According to "The Chronicle of Perth," the burning of Scone, took place "on Tuysday efter Midsomer day, the 27th of Junij 1660 zeiris;" and the same authority says, "the Reformation of the Charter House and Freiris beside Perth," was on the 10th of May 1660, (pp. 2, 3. ...

— The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) • John Knox

... in the burning sun And the grass is scorched and white. But the sand is passed, and the march is done, We are camping here to-night. I sit in the shade of the Temple walls, While the cadenced water evenly falls, And a peacock out of the Jungle calls To another, ...

— India's Love Lyrics • Adela Florence Cory Nicolson (AKA Laurence Hope), et al.

... bribed to take the compassionate side, spoke in her favour. Clarendon, the King's brother in law, pleaded her cause. But all was vain. The utmost that could be obtained was that her sentence should be commuted from burning to beheading. She was put to death on a scaffold in the marketplace of Winchester, and underwent her fate with ...

— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 1 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay

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