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Webster 1913 Edition

Burning

Burn′ing

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

Burn′ing

,
Noun.
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.
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Burning glass
,
a convex lens of considerable size, used for producing an intense heat by converging the sun’s rays to a focus.
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Burning house
(Metal.)
,
the furnace in which tin ores are calcined, to sublime the sulphur and arsenic from the pyrites.
Weale.
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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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Burning

BURN'ING

,
ppr.
Consuming with fire; flaming; scorching; hardening by fire; calcining; charring; raging as fire; glowing.

BURN'ING

,
Noun.
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.

BURN'ING

,
Adj.
Powerful; vehement; as a burning shame; a burning scent.
1.
Much heated; very hot; scorching.
The burning plains of India.

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