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Webster 1913 Edition


Burnt

Burnt

,
p.
p.
&
Adj.
Consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried, as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun.
Burnt ear
,
a black, powdery fungus which destroys grain. See
Smut
.
–
Burnt offering
,
something offered and burnt on an altar, as an atonement for sin; a sacrifice. The offerings of the Jews were a clean animal, as an ox, a calf, a goat, or a sheep; or some vegetable substance, as bread, or ears of wheat or barley. Called also
burnt sacrifice
.
[2 Sam. xxiv. 22.]

Webster 1828 Edition


Burnt

BURNT

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pp.
of burn. Consumed; scorched; heated; subjected to the action of fire.