Brŭn or Bŭrn1, n.
n. [See BOURN.] A river or small stream; Bŭrn, a brook. [Scot.]
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Brun
Bûrn2, v. t.
v. t. [imp. & p. p. BURNED or BURNT; p. pr. & vb. n. BURNING.] [A-S. beornan, byrnan, bernan, brinnan, brennan, O. Sax. brinnan, brennian, O. Fries. barna, berna, Goth. brinnan, Icel. brenna, Sw. brinna, O. H. Ger. brinnan, N. H. Ger. brennen, O. D. bernen, N. D. branden, Dan. brænde.] 1. To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire;—frequently with up; as, to burn up wood. We'll burn his body in the holy place. Shak.
- To injure by fire or heat; to change some property or properties of, by undue or unintentional exposure to fire or heat; as, to burn steel in forging; to burn one's face in the sun; the sun burns, that is, dries up, the grass.
- To affect by, or submit to the action of, fire or heat for some useful or economic purpose, as in the processes of the arts; as, to burn charcoal, or to burn a kiln of wood, to reduce wood to charcoal; to burn bricks, to bake or harden them by fire.
- To produce a sensation or effect akin to that of heat or fire; to excite animal heat in; as, to burn the mouth with pepper. “This tyrant fever burns me up.” Shak.
When the cold north wind bloweth, . . . it devoureth the mountains, and burneth the wilderness, and consumeth the grass as fire. Ecclus. xliii. 20, 21.
- (Surg.) To apply a cautery to; to cauterize.
- (Chem.) To combine with oxygen; as, a man burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration. Liebig.
The term is also applied to the energetic combination of any two chemical substances resulting in the formation of a new compound. To burn, or 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. Quoigley.—To burn daylight, to light candles before it is dark; to waste time; to perform superfluous actions. Wright. Come, we burn daylight; ho! Rom. Nay, that's not so. Mer. I mean, sir, in delay, We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day. Shak. —To burn one's fingers, to get one's self into unexpected trouble, as by interfering in the concerns of others, speculation, &c.—To burn out, to destroy or obliterate by burning. “Must you with hot irons burn out both mine eyes?” Shak.—To be burnt out of house and home, to be driven out from a dwelling, warehouse, &c., by the burning of it.—To burn up, to consume entirely by fire.
Bŭrn3, v. i.
v. i. 1. To be on fire; to flame. “The mount burned with fire.” Deut. ix. 15. 2. To suffer from, or be injured by, an excess of heat. Your meat doth burn, quoth I. Shak. 3. To have the appearance of flame or fire; to shine; to glow; to sparkle. The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water. Shak. 4. To be in a state of lively emotion, or of strong passion or desire. Did not our hearts burn within us, while he talked with us by the way? Luke xxiv. 32. Burning with high hope. Byron. My heart for anger burns; I can not brook it. Shak. 5. To act or rage with destructive violence; to be in commotion. The groan still deepens, and the combat burns. Pope. With feats of arms From either end of heaven the welkin burns. Milton.
- To be affected with a sensation of heat; to feel excess of heat; as, the face burns; a patient burns with a fever.
- To be akin to fire in the effect or sensation produced.
The parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire. Milton. 8. In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought, that is, to be so near to it as to be burned, if it were fire. [Colloq.] To burn out, to burn till the fuel is exhausted and the fire ceases.
Būrn4, n.
n. 1. A hurt or injury of any thing caused by the action of fire. 2. The operation of burning or baking, as in brick-making; as, they have a good burn.
Bŭrn5, n.
[See BRUN and BOURN.] A small stream; a brook. [Scot.]