Part 1484

<h1>Burly</h1> <Xpage=194>

<hw>Bur"ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>burlich</ets> strong, excellent; perh. orig. fit for a lady's bower, hence handsome, manly, stout. Cf. <er>Bower</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Having a large, strong, or gross body; stout; lusty; -- now used chiefly of human beings, but formerly of animals, in the sense of stately or beautiful, and of inanimate things that were huge and bulky.</def> "<i>Burly</i> sacks."

<i>Drayton.</i>

<blockquote>In his latter days, with overliberal diet, [he was] somewhat corpulent and <b>burly</b>. <i>Sir T. More.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote><b>Burly</b> and big, and studious of his ease. <i>Cowper.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Coarse and rough; boisterous.</def>

<blockquote>It was the orator's own <b>burly</b> way of nonsense. <i>Cowley.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Burman</h1> <Xpage=194>

<hw>Bur"man</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Burmans</plw> <tt>(<?/)</tt></plu>. <ety>["The softened modern <i>M'yan-ma</i>, <i>M'yan-ma</i> [native name] is the source of the European corruption <i>Burma</i>." <i>Balfour</i>.]</ety>, <fld>(Ethnol.)</fld> <def>A member of the Burman family, one of the four great families Burmah; also, sometimes, any inhabitant of Burmah; a Burmese.</def> -- <def2><tt>a.</tt> <def> Of or pertaining to the Burmans or to Burmah.</def></def2>

<h1>Bur marigold</h1> <Xpage=194>

<hw>Bur" mar"i*gold</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <def>See <er>Beggar's ticks</er>.</def>

<h1>Burmese</h1> <Xpage=194>

<hw>Bur`mese"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to Burmah, or its inhabitants.</def> -- <def2><tt>n. sing. & pl.</tt> <def>A native or the natives of Burmah. Also (<singf>sing</singf>.), the language of the Burmans.</def></def2>

<h1>Burn</h1> <Xpage=194>

<hw>Burn</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Burned</er> (<?/) or <er>Burnt</er> (<?/); <tt>p. pr. & vb. n</tt>. <er>Burning</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>bernen</ets>, <ets>brennen</ets>, v.t., early confused with <ets>beornen</ets>, <ets>birnen</ets>, v.i., AS. <ets>b\'91rnan</ets>, <ets>bernan</ets>, v.t., <ets>birnan</ets>, v.i.; akin to OS. <ets>brinnan</ets>, OFries. <ets>barna</ets>, <ets>berna</ets>, OHG. <ets>brinnan</ets>, <ets>brennan</ets>, G. <ets>brennen</ets>, OD. <ets>bernen</ets>, D. <ets>branden</ets>, Dan. <ets>br\'91nde</ets>, Sw. <ets>br\'84nna</ets>, <ets>brinna</ets>, Icel. <ets>brenna</ets>, Goth. <ets>brinnan</ets>, <ets>brannjan</ets> (in comp.), and possibly to E. <ets>fervent</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by <i>up</i>: as, to <i>burn</i> up wood.</def> "We'll <i>burn</i> his body in the holy place."

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>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>as, to <ex>burn</ex> steel in forging; to <ex>burn</ex> one's face in the sun; the sun <ex>burns</ex> the grass.</as></def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>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>as, to <ex>burn</ex> clay in making bricks or pottery; to <ex>burn</ex> wood so as to produce charcoal; to <ex>burn</ex> limestone for the lime.</as></def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To make or produce, as an effect or result, by the application of fire or heat; <as>as, to <ex>burn</ex> a hole; to <ex>burn</ex> charcoal; to <ex>burn</ex> letters into a block.</as></def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does; <as>as, to <ex>burn</ex> the mouth with pepper</as>.</def>

<blockquote>This tyrant fever <b>burns</b> me up. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>This dry sorrow <b>burns</b> up all my tears. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>When the cold north wind bloweth, . . . it devoureth the mountains, and <b>burneth</b> the wilderness, and consumeth the <?/<?/ass as fire. <i>Ecclus. xliii. 20, 21.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Surg.)</fld> <def>To apply a cautery to; to cauterize.</def>

<p><b>7.</b> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize; <as>as, a man <ex>burns</ex> a certain amount of carbon at each respiration; to <ex>burn</ex> iron in oxygen.</as></def>

<cs><mcol><col>To burn</col>, <col>To burn together</col></mcol>, <cd>as two surfaces of metal <fld>(Engin.)</fld>, to fuse and unite them by pouring over them a quantity of the same metal in a liquid state.</cd> -- <col>To burn a bowl</col> <fld>(Game of Bowls)<fld>, <cd>to displace it accidentally, the bowl so displaced being said to be <i>burned<i>.</cd> -- <col>To burn daylight</col>, <cd>to light candles before it is dark; to waste time; to perform superfluous actions. <i>Shak</i>.</cd> -- <col>To burn one's fingers</col>, <cd>to get one's self into unexpected trouble, as by interfering the concerns of others, speculation, etc.</cd> -- <col>To burn out</col>, <cd>to destroy or obliterate by burning.</cd> "Must you with hot irons <i>burn out<i> mine eyes?" <i>Shak</i>. -- <col>To be burned out</col>, <cd>to suffer loss by fire, as the burning of one's house, store, or shop, with the contents.</cd> -- <mcol><col>To burn up</col>, <col>To burn down</col></mcol>, <cd>to burn entirely.</cd></cs>

<h1>Burn</h1> <Xpage=194>

<hw>Burn</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To be of fire; to flame.</def> "The mount <i>burned</i> with fire."