burning

Burning, a mode of capital punishment formerly common in civilized countries.

In metal working, joining metals by melting their adjacent edges, or heating their adjacent edges and running into the intermediate space some molten metal of the same kind. In ceramics, the final heating of clay ware, which changes is from the dried or biscuited condition to the perfect ware. The glaze or enamel is applied to the baked ware, and is vitrified in the burning.

Entry from Everybody's Cyclopedia, 1912.

Burn"ing, a.

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. Dryden.

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

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Burn"ing, 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 conxex 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. Weale. -- Burning mirror, a concave mirror, or a combination of plane mirrors, used for the same purpose as a burning glass.

Syn. -- Combustion; fire; conflagration; flame; blaze.

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