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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.

Definition 2025

burning

burning

English

Verb

burning

  1. present participle of burn

Adjective

burning ‎(comparative more burning, superlative most burning)

  1. So hot as to seem to burn (something).
    the burning sun‎
    • 1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid:
      The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.
  2. Feeling very hot.
    burning skin‎
  3. Feeling great passion.
    her burning heart‎
  4. Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful.
    burning zeal‎
    • John Dryden (1631-1700)
      Like a young hound upon a burning scent.

Translations

Noun

burning ‎(plural burnings)

  1. The act by which something burns or is burned.
    • 1828, Timothy Flint, The Western Monthly Review (volume 1, page 403)
      It gives a fine delineation of the burnings of shame, disappointed ambition, and vengeance […]
    • 1850, The Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal (volume 91, page 93)
      The propriety of the dissolution, too, was speedily seen in the improved state of the public peace: for twelve years we hear little of Orange riots, and nothing of such burnings and wreckings as those of Maghera, Maghery, and Annahagh.
  2. A fire.
    The burnings continued all day.

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