Burning
Burn·ing
Burning
a.
- That burns; being on fire; excessively hot; fiery.
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Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful; as, burning zeal.
Like a young hound upon a burning scent.
Phrases & Compounds
- Burning bush
- an ornamental shrub (Euonymus atropurpureus), bearing a crimson berry.
Burning
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.
Phrases & Compounds
- 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.
- 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
- the furnace in which tin ores are calcined, to sublime the sulphur and arsenic from the pyrites.
- Burning mirror
- a concave mirror, or a combination of plane mirrors, used for the same purpose as a burning glass.