Chapter Burgoo to Burnt of B by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

Burnie
(Burn"ie) n. [See 4th Burn.] A small brook. [Scot.] Burns.

Burniebee
(Bur"nie*bee`) n. The ladybird. [Prov. Eng.]

Burning
(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 bearing a crimson berry.

Burning
(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 or oil of turpentine 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. 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.

Burnish
(Bur"nish) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Burnished ; p. pr. & vb. n. Burnishing.] [OE. burnischen, burnissen, burnen, OF. burnir, brunir, to make brown, polish, F. brunir, fr. F. brun brown, fr. OHG. brn; cf. MHG. briunen to make brown, polish. See Brown, a.] To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper.

The frame of burnished steel, that east a glare
From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing air.
Dryden.

Now the village windows blaze,
Burnished by the setting sun.
Cunningham.

Burnishing machine, a machine for smoothing and polishing by compression, as in making paper collars.

Burnish
(Bur"nish), v. i. To shine forth; to brighten; to become smooth and glossy, as from swelling or filling out; hence, to grow large.

A slender poet must have time to grow,
And spread and burnish as his brothers do.
Dryden.

My thoughts began to burnish, sprout, and swell.
Herbert.

Burnish
(Bur"nish), n. The effect of burnishing; gloss; brightness; luster. Crashaw.

Burnisher
(Bur"nish*er) n.

1. One who burnishes.

2. A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses.

Burnoose
(Bur"noose, Bur"nous) n. [Ar. burnus a kind of high-crowned cap: cf. F. bournous, burnous, Sp. al-bornoz, a sort of upper garment, with a hood attached.]