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overˈburn, v.
[over- 21, 27.]
†1. trans. To burn down; to overthrow by fire.
1616T. Adams Forest of Thorns Wks. 1862 II. 471 A strong engine set to the walls of purgatory, to overturn them, and overburn them with the fire of hell.
2. (ˌover-ˈburn) To burn too much or to excess.
1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) I. 82 In burning of the Turf, you must take care not to over-burn it..for the over-burning of it to white Ashes, wastes the nitrous Salt. c1865Letheby in Circ. Sc. I. 129/1 The supply of..air is too great, and the gas is overburnt.
So ˈoverˈburning vbl. n.; ˈoverˈburning ppl. a., excessively burning or ardent (whence ˈoverˈburningly adv., over-ardently); ˈoverˈburnt ppl. a.
1707*Over-burning [see sense 2]. 1849Johnston Exp. Agric. 260 By over-burning, clays lose their fertilising virtues.
1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. (1589) 449 When a man seeketh after any of them with an *overburning desire.
1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 7203 And ouþer spyces haþ glotonye, To ete þe mete *ouer brennynglye.
1834Brit. Husb. I. 305 Lime..if burnt with too violent a fire..will not slake, and becomes useless, or what is termed *over-burnt, and, in some places, dead-lime. 1837J. T. Smith tr. Vicat's Mortars 115 A dark red, or purplish colour, similar to that of an over-burnt brick. |