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"A ___-out Case": G. Greene
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burnt
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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. Burnt ear , a black, powdery fungus which destroys grain. See Smut . Burnt offering , something offered and burnt ...
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adj. ruined by overcooking; "she served us underdone bacon and burnt buscuits" [syn: burned ] having undergone oxidation; "burned powder" [syn: burned ] [ant: unburned ] treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point; "burnt ...
Usage examples of burnt.
It is made artificially from high wines by the addition of oil of Cognac, to give it flavor, burnt sugar to give it color, and logwood or catechu, to impart astringency and roughness of taste.
In his pastoral letter to his clergy urging them to take the oath of allegiance, Burnet grounded the claim of William and Mary on the right of conquest, a view which gave such offence that the pamphlet was burnt by the common hangman three years later.
Gomez cuffed him without malice, then he took a piece of this bread, went over to a stove maculate with burnt fat, sloshed the bread in a pan of what looked like sardine-oil, folded it into a sandwich and, drippingly, ate.
Then Minnum broke out a bottle of naeffita, a jade-green liquor, whose smokey richness held hints of cloves, cinnamon, and burnt orange.
London was burnt to the ground, a great murrain of cattle happened for the first time in the English nation, and a terrible plague carried off many thousands of the people.
Comparing the two camps, Vani and Burnt Fur, the ranger could tell the gnomes were outmatched in savagery, let alone sheer numbers.
I put you in the worst bed, and allowed you the burnt meat and the sodden bread, and the valise to carry twice as often as I took it myself, to satisfy your plaguy scruples?
The leaves of the Polypody when burnt furnish a large proportion of carbonate of Potash.
One thing sure, he wasnt no profet to judje from what they did to them devils in the burnt truck if it was them, I dont know.
Bee propolis, or the glutinous resin manufactured by bees for fixing the foundations of their combs, will afford relief to the asthmatic by its fumes when burnt.
There were elementarii whipping hard at the frightened fire elementals, but that enraged them and some in passing snapped petulant and pyrotic at their handlers and burnt them to death.
There was a faint metallic tang, and he suddenly recalled that the first men on the Moon had reported a hint of burnt gunpowder when they repressurized the lunar module.
The only things left would be a brief stink of burnt meat and a batch of steel that needed resmelting because it had picked up too much carbon.
It was not the buccaneer custom to fire cities before they had sacked them, nor is it in the least likely that Morgan would have burnt so glorious a town before he had offered it to ransom.
They took the town, and sacked its sugar refineries, which they burnt.