Burnt
Burnt
p. p. & a.
- Consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried, as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun.
Phrases & Compounds
- Burnt ear
- a black, powdery fungus which destroys grain. See Smut.
- Burnt offering
- something offered and burnt on an altar, as an atonement for sin; a sacrifice. The offerings of the Jews were a clean animal, as an ox, a calf, a goat, or a sheep; or some vegetable substance, as bread, or ears of wheat or barley. Called also burnt sacrifice.