Burn \Burn\ (b[^u]rn), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Burned} (b[^u]rnd) or {Burnt} (b[^u]rnt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Burning}.] [OE. bernen, brennen, v. t., early confused with beornen, birnen, v. i., AS. b[ae]rnan, bernan, v. t., birnan, v. i.; akin to OS. brinnan, OFries. barna, berna, OHG. brinnan, brennan, G. brennen, OD. bernen, D. branden, Dan. br[ae]nde, Sw. br["a]nna, brinna, Icel. brenna, Goth. brinnan, brannjan (in comp.), and possibly to E. fervent.] 1. To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood. ``We'll burn his body in the holy place.'' --Shak.
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 ??ass 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}, (a) to destroy or obliterate by burning. ``Must you with hot irons burn out mine eyes?'' --Shak. (b) to force (people) to flee by burning their homes or places of business; as, the rioters burned out the Chinese businessmen.
{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\, n. 1. A hurt, injury, or effect caused by fire or excessive or intense heat.
2. The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking; as, they have a good burn.
3. A disease in vegetables. See {Brand}, n., 6.
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 burn with fever.
Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way? --Luke xxiv. 32.
The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water. --Shak.
Burning with high hope. --Byron.
The groan still deepens, and the combat burns. --Pope.
The parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire. --Milton.
4. (Chem.) To combine energetically, with evolution of heat; as, copper burns in chlorine.
5. In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought. [Colloq.]
{To burn up}, {To burn down}, to be entirely consumed.
Burn \Burn\, n. [See 1st {Bourn}.] A small stream. [Scot.]
Utility and state officials say new technology to burn high-sulfur coal cleanly won't be ready by Bush's deadline, and that power plants would have to switch to expensive low-sulfur coal mined elsewhere.
"It was unquestionably a gunshot wound," said Hollywood Police Chief Richard Witt, who added that a powder burn indicated the shot was fired at close range and was possibly self-inflicted.
The fluids do not transmit electricity and are extremely difficult to burn.
During that time, scientists found that sunlight had interfered with a sensor in an infrared guidance system and a computer automatically terminated the engine burn.
The Bush administration is preparing what some White House officials call a "slash and burn" budget to meet next year's tough target without raising taxes.
In the past two years, the justices struck down federal and state laws that made it illegal to burn a U.S. flag.
Felker also is interested in developing a harvester to harvest the wood to burn as fuel, as well as developing a marketing plan touting mesquite and beef.
Another 4m tonnes will go to National Power if the generator wins consent to burn orimulsion at its Pembroke station in Dyfed, Wales. BP Bitor expected sales to reach 7m to 10m tonnes by the end of the century.
"If you can't put out the fire in its early stages," says President Kenan Evren, "it will spread and the entire house will burn down.
The main fire, which began Sunday morning along Highway 49 about 30 miles northwest of Nevada City, was apparently caused by an illegal burn of debris, said U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman Ann Dow.
He also expressed scepticism at the returns being promised by corporate-capital vehicles. 'It is flavour of the month but I think it is bound to burn its fingers at some stage,' he said.
Ranchers and farmers burn off large tracts of the rain forest to clear land for planting and grazing.
In the Elkhorn Mountains about 10 miles southeast of Helena, officials closed public access to 58,000 acres where a week-old fire continued to burn in steep, heavily timbered terrain.
By RAJU GOPALAKRISHNAN= Police in southeastern Nepal fired Tuesday on pro-democracy protesters who tried to burn down a police station, killing at least three demonstrators, the government said.
Under normal weather conditions, lodge-pole pines, which covered 80% of the park before the fires, "do not burn quickly and easily," he said.
It said firefighters had the new blaze under control and it was expected to burn out within hours.
Fears of explosion delayed attempts to recover the bodies as fires continued to burn from escape valves in the tankers.
Chop 'em, burn 'em or plow them under, but get rid of them before the next westerly wind starts to blow.
Michelle Madowsky, 17, the mother of the infant, was in serious condition at the Ohio State University Hospital burn unit, hospital spokesman David Crawford said.
Wustenhoff was airlifted to the medical center's burn unit, where he died.
Solar power was developed, domestic production rose, homeowners insulated their houses, the automotive industry learned to get more miles per gallon and utilities learned to burn fuel more efficiently.
Documents burn in a fireplace. Cryptic orders are barked out, possibly instructions to break the law.
"They tried to have mass burials at sea, but the next morning many floated back in on the surf," she told the Houston Chronicle this week. "The men had to dig trenches and burn them.
Only four of the five beds in the burn unit were occupied.
But he doesn't expect one as the worst fires in Yellowstone National Park's history burn unabated.
But the technology wasn't there yet to satisfy consumer requirements." Premier differed from ordinary cigarettes in that it didn't actually burn tobacco.
Meanwhile, winds topping 25 knots this morning forced postponement of efforts to clean up the sound with chemicals to disperse the oil or fire to burn it off.
Spain's leading daily El Pais said preliminary results of a Defense Ministry probe indicated the error caused the twin-engine jet to crash and burn Nov. 7 in a field near an air base outside the northern city of Zaragoza.
Local officials sharply criticized the federal government for failing to bring the fires under control and put some of the blame on the longstanding "let it burn" policies.
The two-minute test will burn approximately 1.1 million pounds of solid fuel propellant, sending a cloud of smoke and flame thousands of feet into the sky.