2. To injure by fire or heat; to change destructively some property or properties of, by undue exposure to
fire or heat; to scorch; to scald; to blister; to singe; to char; to sear; as, to burn steel in forging; to burn one's
face in the sun; the sun burns the grass.
3. To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to
destroy or change some property or properties of, by exposure to fire or heat in due degree for obtaining
a desired residuum, product, or effect; to bake; as, to burn clay in making bricks or pottery; to burn wood
so as to produce charcoal; to burn limestone for the lime.
4. To make or produce, as an effect or result, by the application of fire or heat; as, to burn a hole; to
burn charcoal; to burn letters into a block.
5. To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat
does; as, to burn the mouth with pepper.
This tyrant fever burns me up.
Shak.
This dry sorrow burns up all my tears.
Dryden.
When the cold north wind bloweth, . . . it devoureth the mountains, and burneth the wilderness, and
consumeth the grass as fire.
Ecclus. xliii. 20, 21.
6. (Surg.) To apply a cautery to; to cauterize.
7. (Chem.) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to
oxidize; as, a man burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration; to burn iron in oxygen.
To burn,
To burn together, as two surfaces of metal
(Engin.),
to fuse and unite them by pouring over
them a quantity of the same metal in a liquid state. — To burn a bowl (Game of Bowls), to displace
it accidentally, the bowl so displaced being said to be burned. — To burn daylight, to light candles
before it is dark; to waste time; to perform superfluous actions. Shak. — To burn one's fingers, to
get one's self into unexpected trouble, as by interfering the concerns of others, speculation, etc. — To
burn out, to destroy or obliterate by burning. "Must you with hot irons burn out mine eyes?" Shak.
— To be burned out, to suffer loss by fire, as the burning of one's house, store, or shop, with the
contents. — To burn up, To burn down, to burn entirely.
Burn
(Burn), v. i.
1. To be of fire; to flame. "The mount burned with fire." Deut. ix. 15.
2. To suffer from, or be scorched by, an excess of heat.
Your meat doth burn, quoth I.
Shak.
3. To have a condition, quality, appearance, sensation, or emotion, as if on fire or excessively heated; to
act or rage with destructive violence; to be in a state of lively emotion or strong desire; as, the face burns; to