| burn | noun (n.) A hurt, injury, or effect caused by fire or excessive or intense heat. |
| | noun (n.) The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking; as, they have a good burn. |
| | noun (n.) A disease in vegetables. See Brand, n., 6. |
| | noun (n.) A small stream. |
| | verb (v. t.) To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood. |
| | verb (v. t.) 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, to burn steel in forging; to burn one's face in the sun; the sun burns the grass. |
| | verb (v. t.) 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, to burn clay in making bricks or pottery; to burn wood so as to produce charcoal; to burn limestone for the lime. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make or produce, as an effect or result, by the application of fire or heat; as, to burn a hole; to burn charcoal; to burn letters into a block. |
| | verb (v. t.) To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does; as, to burn the mouth with pepper. |
| | verb (v. t.) To apply a cautery to; to cauterize. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize; as, a man burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration; to burn iron in oxygen. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be of fire; to flame. |
| | verb (v. i.) To suffer from, or be scorched by, an excess of heat. |
| | verb (v. i.) To have a condition, quality, appearance, sensation, or emotion, as if on fire or excessively heated; to act or rage with destructive violence; to be in a state of lively emotion or strong desire; as, the face burns; to burn with fever. |
| | verb (v. i.) To combine energetically, with evolution of heat; as, copper burns in chlorine. |
| | verb (v. i.) In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought. |
| return | noun (n.) The act of returning (intransitive), or coming back to the same place or condition; as, the return of one long absent; the return of health; the return of the seasons, or of an anniversary. |
| | noun (n.) The act of returning (transitive), or sending back to the same place or condition; restitution; repayment; requital; retribution; as, the return of anything borrowed, as a book or money; a good return in tennis. |
| | noun (n.) That which is returned. |
| | noun (n.) A payment; a remittance; a requital. |
| | noun (n.) An answer; as, a return to one's question. |
| | noun (n.) An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, and the like; as, election returns; a return of the amount of goods produced or sold; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information. |
| | noun (n.) The profit on, or advantage received from, labor, or an investment, undertaking, adventure, etc. |
| | noun (n.) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, as a molding or mold; -- applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer; thus, a facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south. |
| | noun (n.) The rendering back or delivery of writ, precept, or execution, to the proper officer or court. |
| | noun (n.) The certificate of an officer stating what he has done in execution of a writ, precept, etc., indorsed on the document. |
| | noun (n.) The sending back of a commission with the certificate of the commissioners. |
| | noun (n.) A day in bank. See Return day, below. |
| | noun (n.) An official account, report, or statement, rendered to the commander or other superior officer; as, the return of men fit for duty; the return of the number of the sick; the return of provisions, etc. |
| | noun (n.) The turnings and windings of a trench or mine. |
| | verb (v. i.) To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition. |
| | verb (v. i.) To come back, or begin again, after an interval, regular or irregular; to appear again. |
| | verb (v. i.) To speak in answer; to reply; to respond. |
| | verb (v. i.) To revert; to pass back into possession. |
| | verb (v. i.) To go back in thought, narration, or argument. |
| | verb (v. t.) To bring, carry, send, or turn, back; as, to return a borrowed book, or a hired horse. |
| | verb (v. t.) To repay; as, to return borrowed money. |
| | verb (v. t.) To give in requital or recompense; to requite. |
| | verb (v. t.) To give back in reply; as, to return an answer; to return thanks. |
| | verb (v. t.) To retort; to throw back; as, to return the lie. |
| | verb (v. t.) To report, or bring back and make known. |
| | verb (v. t.) To render, as an account, usually an official account, to a superior; to report officially by a list or statement; as, to return a list of stores, of killed or wounded; to return the result of an election. |
| | verb (v. t.) Hence, to elect according to the official report of the election officers. |
| | verb (v. t.) To bring or send back to a tribunal, or to an office, with a certificate of what has been done; as, to return a writ. |
| | verb (v. t.) To convey into official custody, or to a general depository. |
| | verb (v. t.) To bat (the ball) back over the net. |
| | verb (v. t.) To lead in response to the lead of one's partner; as, to return a trump; to return a diamond for a club. |
| turn | noun (n.) The act of turning; movement or motion about, or as if about, a center or axis; revolution; as, the turn of a wheel. |
| | noun (n.) Change of direction, course, or tendency; different order, position, or aspect of affairs; alteration; vicissitude; as, the turn of the tide. |
| | noun (n.) One of the successive portions of a course, or of a series of occurrences, reckoning from change to change; hence, a winding; a bend; a meander. |
| | noun (n.) A circuitous walk, or a walk to and fro, ending where it began; a short walk; a stroll. |
| | noun (n.) Successive course; opportunity enjoyed by alternation with another or with others, or in due order; due chance; alternate or incidental occasion; appropriate time. |
| | noun (n.) Incidental or opportune deed or office; occasional act of kindness or malice; as, to do one an ill turn. |
| | noun (n.) Convenience; occasion; purpose; exigence; as, this will not serve his turn. |
| | noun (n.) Form; cast; shape; manner; fashion; -- used in a literal or figurative sense; hence, form of expression; mode of signifying; as, the turn of thought; a man of a sprightly turn in conversation. |
| | noun (n.) A change of condition; especially, a sudden or recurring symptom of illness, as a nervous shock, or fainting spell; as, a bad turn. |
| | noun (n.) A fall off the ladder at the gallows; a hanging; -- so called from the practice of causing the criminal to stand on a ladder which was turned over, so throwing him off, when the signal was given. |
| | noun (n.) A round of a rope or cord in order to secure it, as about a pin or a cleat. |
| | noun (n.) A pit sunk in some part of a drift. |
| | noun (n.) A court of record, held by the sheriff twice a year in every hundred within his county. |
| | noun (n.) Monthly courses; menses. |
| | noun (n.) An embellishment or grace (marked thus, /), commonly consisting of the principal note, or that on which the turn is made, with the note above, and the semitone below, the note above being sounded first, the principal note next, and the semitone below last, the three being performed quickly, as a triplet preceding the marked note. The turn may be inverted so as to begin with the lower note, in which case the sign is either placed on end thus /, or drawn thus /. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wholly, or repeatedly; to make to change position so as to present other sides in given directions; to make to face otherwise; as, to turn a wheel or a spindle; to turn the body or the head. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cause to present a different side uppermost or outmost; to make the upper side the lower, or the inside to be the outside of; to reverse the position of; as, to turn a box or a board; to turn a coat. |
| | verb (v. t.) To give another direction, tendency, or inclination to; to direct otherwise; to deflect; to incline differently; -- used both literally and figuratively; as, to turn the eyes to the heavens; to turn a horse from the road, or a ship from her course; to turn the attention to or from something. |
| | verb (v. t.) To change from a given use or office; to divert, as to another purpose or end; to transfer; to use or employ; to apply; to devote. |
| | verb (v. t.) To change the form, quality, aspect, or effect of; to alter; to metamorphose; to convert; to transform; -- often with to or into before the word denoting the effect or product of the change; as, to turn a worm into a winged insect; to turn green to blue; to turn prose into verse; to turn a Whig to a Tory, or a Hindu to a Christian; to turn good to evil, and the like. |
| | verb (v. t.) To form in a lathe; to shape or fashion (anything) by applying a cutting tool to it while revolving; as, to turn the legs of stools or tables; to turn ivory or metal. |
| | verb (v. t.) Hence, to give form to; to shape; to mold; to put in proper condition; to adapt. |
| | verb (v. t.) To translate; to construe; as, to turn the Iliad. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle, etc.: as, to turn cider or wine; electricity turns milk quickly. |
| | verb (v. t.) To sicken; to nauseate; as, an emetic turns one's stomach. |
| | verb (v. i.) To move round; to have a circular motion; to revolve entirely, repeatedly, or partially; to change position, so as to face differently; to whirl or wheel round; as, a wheel turns on its axis; a spindle turns on a pivot; a man turns on his heel. |
| | verb (v. i.) Hence, to revolve as if upon a point of support; to hinge; to depend; as, the decision turns on a single fact. |
| | verb (v. i.) To result or terminate; to come about; to eventuate; to issue. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be deflected; to take a different direction or tendency; to be directed otherwise; to be differently applied; to be transferred; as, to turn from the road. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be changed, altered, or transformed; to become transmuted; also, to become by a change or changes; to grow; as, wood turns to stone; water turns to ice; one color turns to another; to turn Mohammedan. |
| | verb (v. i.) To undergo the process of turning on a lathe; as, ivory turns well. |
| | verb (v. i.) To become acid; to sour; -- said of milk, ale, etc. |
| | verb (v. i.) To become giddy; -- said of the head or brain. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be nauseated; -- said of the stomach. |
| | verb (v. i.) To become inclined in the other direction; -- said of scales. |
| | verb (v. i.) To change from ebb to flow, or from flow to ebb; -- said of the tide. |
| | verb (v. i.) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery. |
| | verb (v. i.) To invert a type of the same thickness, as temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make a turn about or around (something); to go or pass around by turning; as, to turn a corner. |
| wash | noun (n.) The act of washing; an ablution; a cleansing, wetting, or dashing with water; hence, a quantity, as of clothes, washed at once. |
| | noun (n.) A piece of ground washed by the action of a sea or river, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh; a fen; as, the washes in Lincolnshire. |
| | noun (n.) Substances collected and deposited by the action of water; as, the wash of a sewer, of a river, etc. |
| | noun (n.) Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs. |
| | noun (n.) The fermented wort before the spirit is extracted. |
| | noun (n.) A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation. |
| | noun (n.) That with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared, tinted, etc., upon the surface. |
| | noun (n.) A liquid cosmetic for the complexion. |
| | noun (n.) A liquid dentifrice. |
| | noun (n.) A liquid preparation for the hair; as, a hair wash. |
| | noun (n.) A medical preparation in a liquid form for external application; a lotion. |
| | noun (n.) A thin coat of color, esp. water color. |
| | noun (n.) A thin coat of metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation. |
| | noun (n.) The blade of an oar, or the thin part which enters the water. |
| | noun (n.) The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc. |
| | noun (n.) The flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water, as a wave; also, the sound of it. |
| | noun (n.) Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters. |
| | noun (n.) Gravel and other rock debris transported and deposited by running water; coarse alluvium. |
| | noun (n.) An alluvial cone formed by a stream at the base of a mountain. |
| | noun (n.) The dry bed of an intermittent stream, sometimes at the bottom of a ca–on; as, the Amargosa wash, Diamond wash; -- called also dry wash. |
| | noun (n.) The upper surface of a member or material when given a slope to shed water. Hence, a structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water, as a carriage wash in a stable. |
| | adjective (a.) Washy; weak. |
| | adjective (a.) Capable of being washed without injury; washable; as, wash goods. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water; to apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of cleansing; to scrub with water, etc., or as with water; as, to wash the hands or body; to wash garments; to wash sheep or wool; to wash the pavement or floor; to wash the bark of trees. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten; hence, to overflow or dash against; as, waves wash the shore. |
| | verb (v. t.) To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment. |
| | verb (v. t.) To remove by washing to take away by, or as by, the action of water; to drag or draw off as by the tide; -- often with away, off, out, etc.; as, to wash dirt from the hands. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cover with a thin or watery coat of color; to tint lightly and thinly. |
| | verb (v. t.) To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as, steel washed with silver. |
| | verb (v. i.) To perform the act of ablution. |
| | verb (v. i.) To clean anything by rubbing or dipping it in water; to perform the business of cleansing clothes, ore, etc., in water. |
| | verb (v. i.) To bear without injury the operation of being washed; as, some calicoes do not wash. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; -- said of road, a beach, etc. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cause dephosphorisation of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide. |
| | verb (v. t.) To pass (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, esp. by removing soluble constituents. |
| | verb (v. i.) To use washes, as for the face or hair. |
| | verb (v. i.) To move with a lapping or swashing sound, or the like; to lap; splash; as, to hear the water washing. |
| waste | noun (n.) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea. |
| | adjective (a.) Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless. |
| | adjective (a.) Lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse; rejected; as, waste land; waste paper. |
| | adjective (a.) Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous. |
| | adjective (a.) To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy. |
| | adjective (a.) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out. |
| | adjective (a.) To spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause to be lost; to destroy by scattering or injury. |
| | adjective (a.) To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less. |
| | verb (v. i.) To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; -- said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc. |
| | verb (v.) The act of wasting, or the state of being wasted; a squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or expenditure; devastation; loss without equivalent gain; gradual loss or decrease, by use, wear, or decay; as, a waste of property, time, labor, words, etc. |
| | verb (v.) That which is wasted or desolate; a devastated, uncultivated, or wild country; a deserted region; an unoccupied or unemployed space; a dreary void; a desert; a wilderness. |
| | verb (v.) That which is of no value; worthless remnants; refuse. Specifically: Remnants of cops, or other refuse resulting from the working of cotton, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc. |
| | verb (v.) Spoil, destruction, or injury, done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder. |
| | verb (v.) Old or abandoned workings, whether left as vacant space or filled with refuse. |
