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- Present participle of to burn.
- The action of the verb to burn.
- So hot as to seem to burn (something).
the burning sun
- Feeling very hot.
burning skin
- Feeling great passion.
her burning heart
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
Burn"ing, a. 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, 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.
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 (Metal.), the furnace in which
tin ores are calcined, to sublime the sulphur and arsenic from the
pyrites. Weale. -- 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's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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