burntburnedadj.
/bəːrnt//bəːnd/ 1.
a. Set on fire, consumed with fire.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > [adjective] > burnt
ybrent1297
burnta1382
combustc1386
conflagrated1814
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xiii. 9 Brent faces [L. facies combustæ].
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jer. li. 25 A brente hill.
a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Certain Bks. Aenæis (1557) ii. sig. Dii Reft from the brent Temples of Troy.
1591 E. Spenser Ruines of Time in Complaints 19 Th' auncient Genius of that Citie brent.
1611 Bible (King James) Jer. li. 25 I wil..make thee a burnt mountaine. View more context for this quotation
1888 N.E.D. at Burnt Mod. Many objects of value were discovered amid the ruins of the burnt houses.
b. figurative. Fired with passion; inflamed, excited.
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the mind > emotion > passion > ardour or fervour > [adjective] > inflamed with passion
fire-hotOE
eschaufedc1374
on firea1393
inflammatec1450
inflamed1526
enkindled1549
boiling1579
seething1590
heated1595
red-hot1598
aflame1632
on flame1656
ablaze1819
burnt1859
incandescent1859
1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 30 All his face Glow'd..So burnt he was with passion.
2. burnt out:
a. extinct after entire consumption of the fuel; sometimes figurative.
b. driven out by a conflagration; cf. burn v.1 15.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > [adjective] > expelling > expelled > specific people from a place, position, or possession > in specific manners
outshovena1400
burnt out1837
starved-out1844
bombed out1940
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vii. ii. 343 Burnt-out Seigneurs, rally round your Queen.
1854 T. De Quincey Autobiogr. Sketches in Select. Grave & Gay II. 212 It was a burnt-out volcano.
1887 Manch. Guardian 31 May 5 The burned-out company of the Opéra Comique.
1908 T. Hardy Dynasts: Pt. 3rd vii. ix. 347 This is my burnt-out hour.
1917 T. S. Eliot Prufrock & Other Observ. 24 The burnt-out ends of smoky days.
1919 F. Hurst Humoresque 256 She looked up at him with a tired, a burned-out, an ashamed smile.
1926 E. Bowen Ann Lee's 93 Mrs Pym was a fair, burnt-out young woman of twenty-five.
1969 Listener 3 Apr. 472/1 Joss Ackland as Danton, the not entirely burnt-out volcano.
c. Of a leper: cured (see quot. 1959), esp. in burnt-out case. Also figurative (frequently with influence of sense 2a).
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective]
wearyc825
asadc1306
ateyntc1325
attaintc1325
recrayed1340
methefula1350
for-wearya1375
matea1375
taintc1380
heavy1382
fortireda1400
methefula1400
afoundered?a1425
tewedc1440
travailedc1440
wearisomec1460
fatigate1471
defatigatec1487
tired1488
recreant1490
yolden?1507
fulyeit?a1513
traiked?a1513
tavert1535
wearied1538
fatigated1552
awearya1555
forwearied1562
overtired1567
spenta1568
done1575
awearied1577
stank1579
languishinga1586
bankrupt?1589
fordone1590
spent1591
overwearied1592
overworn1592
outworn1597
half-dead1601
back-broken1603
tiry1611
defatigated1612
dog-wearya1616
overweary1617
exhaust1621
worn-out1639
embossed1651
outspent1652
exhausted1667
beaten1681
bejaded1687
harassed1693
jaded1693
lassate1694
defeata1732
beat out1758
fagged1764
dog-tired1770
fessive1773
done-up1784
forjeskit1786
ramfeezled1786
done-over1789
fatigued1791
forfoughten1794
worn-up1812
dead1813
out-burnta1821
prostrate1820
dead beat1822
told out1822
bone-tireda1825
traiky1825
overfatigued1834
outwearied1837
done like (a) dinner1838
magged1839
used up1839
tuckered outc1840
drained1855
floored1857
weariful1862
wappered1868
bushed1870
bezzled1875
dead-beaten1875
down1885
tucked up1891
ready (or fit) to drop1892
buggered-up1893
ground-down1897
played1897
veal-bled1899
stove-up1901
trachled1910
ragged1912
beat up1914
done in1917
whacked1919
washy1922
pooped1928
shattered1930
punchy1932
shagged1932
shot1939
whipped1940
buggered1942
flaked (out)1942
fucked1949
sold-out1958
wiped1958
burnt out1959
wrung out1962
juiced1965
hanging1971
zonked1972
maxed1978
raddled1978
zoned1980
cream crackered1983
the world > health and disease > ill health > sick person > [noun] > weak person
dwininga1400
molla1425
impotenta1513
gristlea1556
weakling1576
puler1579
puling1579
shadow1588
shotten herring1598
doddle1681
sickrel1699
seven-months1724
wandought1726
wallydraigle1736
wreck1795
werewolf1808
windlestraw1818
weed1825
shammock1828
sickling1834
forcible feeble1844
dwindle1847
weedling1849
crock1876
feebling1887
asthenic1893
dodderer1907
pencil-neck1956
burnt-out case1959
weakie1959
the world > health and disease > healing > recovery > [adjective] > cured of leprosy
burnt out1959
1959 G. Greene Congo Jrnl. 10 Feb. in In Search of Character (1961) 42 Leprosy cases where disease has been arrested and cured only after the loss of fingers or toes are known as burnt-out cases.
1961 G. Greene (title) A burnt-out case.
1961 New Statesman 24 Feb. 318/1 Yet had this priest not burned at the stake in 1634, he could be discovered in the Congo as a nobler but still walking ‘burnt-out case’.
1961 Encounter 16 70 The burnt-out leper is not too obtrusive.
1961 Times Lit. Suppl. 2 June 340/2 His constitution ‘seemed to have broken down, and no career in life lay open’ to him. A burnt-out case.
1968 R. Harris Nice Girl's Story ii. 18 He was probably a burnt-out case—perhaps his wife had perished in the gas chambers. His interest in life, except to get through it somehow, might be dead.
3. † c. Medicine. Adust. burnt choler n. 'choler adust’.
a. Affected or damaged by fire or excessive heat, scorched. †burnt line: the equator. †burnt zone: the torrid zone. In †burnt planet, †burnt way, = combust adj. (Astrology).
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > [adjective] > injured by heat or fire
burnt1393
adust?a1425
fire-fangeda1522
adusted?1550
torrid1611
scathed1791
blackened1859
the world > the earth > geodetic references > [noun] > latitude > equator
burning line1484
burnt line1555
equinox1579
equinoctial1584
line1588
equatora1613
the girdle of the world1626
palaeoequator1960
1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 375 They destruied king and all And leften but the brente wall.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Burned roste-meate on the spyt.
1555 R. Eden in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde Pref. sig. dii The marchaunt..passeth to Inde, By the burnte line or Equinoctiall.
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. i. viii. §13. 167 Beeng vnder the burnt Zone was held vninhabitable.
1667 S. Pepys Diary 27 July (1974) VIII. 356 The ground was everywhere as burned and dry as could be.
1862 M. E. Rogers Domest. Life Palestine 17 Cattle were browsing on the scanty burnt-up pasture.
b. Of persons: That has suffered injury or pain from fire, or agencies resembling fire; esp. in proverb, the burnt child dreads the fire.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [adjective] > burned or scalded
burnt?a1300
scaldedc1450
combustive1599
ambust1727
?a1300 (c1250) Prov. Hendyng (Digby) xliii, in Anglia (1881) 4 199 ‘Brend child fuir fordredeþ [a1350 Harl. fur dredeþ]’, Quad Hending.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 116 Þe ybernde uer dret.
c1400 Rom. Rose 1820 Brent child of fier hath mych drede.
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. i. sig. Fiv Burnt chylde fyre dredeth.
1550 M. Coverdale tr. O. Werdmueller Spyrytuall & Precyouse Pearle xiii. sig. Fvij A Burnt hande dreadeth the fyre.
1674 Duke of Lauderdale in O. Airy Lauderdale Papers (1885) III. xxxii. 53 A burn'd Child dreads the fire.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > disordered or out of sorts > of humours
humoral?a1425
humorous?a1425
cacochymic?1541
burnt1578
cacochymical1606
cacochyme1614
ill-tempereda1616
ebullient1620
sulphureous1625
cacochymious1676
dyscratic1684
dyscrasial1874
dyscrasic1874
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered secretion > [noun] > bilious disorders
black choleraa1398
black humoura1398
cholera1398
melancholya1398
choler adusta1400
black choler?a1425
melancholiousness1526
burnt choler1578
atrabile1594
combust choler1607
black bile1634
polycholia1799
bile1803
acholia1835
biliousness1856
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xv. 24 Hoate, cholerique, burnte, and pernicious humors.
1585 H. Llwyd tr. Pope John XXI Treasury of Health (new ed.) sig. Y iv Against a quartaine of burnt coler in haruest, take ye rote of fennel, parcely, of bochers brome, sperage, cinkfoyle.
4. That has been treated with fire for a specific purpose:
a. Said of earth that has been burn-beated; of clay, bricks, tiles, etc. Also burnt-iron n. (see quot. 1881).
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > [adjective]
annealeda1382
burnt1387
bakena1425
baked1545
pot-baked1545
nealed1576
sunburnt1634
hard-burnt?a1656
sunbakedc1660
the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [adjective] > cleared
burnt1600
weeded1601
weedable1611
rid1628
velled1794
cleared1856
logged-off1901
1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (1865) I. 97 Þe walles were i-made of brend tile and of glewe in stede of morter.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique vii. xxv. 848 Harts doe run ouerthwart the burned grounds where the dogs can haue no sent.
1834 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. xvii. 367 Part of the field was dressed with burned clay.
1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 113 Burnt iron, in the Bessemer and open-hearth processes, iron which has been exposed to oxidation until all its carbon is gone.
b. Of gold and silver: Molten, refined by fire.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > precious metal > [adjective] > pure or refined
burntc1400
testeda1616
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 988 Þe borȝ watz al of brende golde bryȝt.
c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1304 His sadel was of brend gold newe ybete.
c1420 Anturs of Arth. xxx A bordur a-boute alle of brent gold.
1488 in P. F. Tytler Inventory Jewels James III (1864) II. 393 Item twa braid pecis of brynt silver bullioune.
c. Calcined or treated by fire for use as a drug, pigment, etc., as burnt alum, burnt carmine, burnt ochre, burnt sienna, burnt sponge, burnt umber, etc. (see alum n.1, carmine n. and adj., etc.); † burnt-brass n. Obsolete obsolete name for copper sulphate.† burnt copper n. Obsolete copper oxide.† burnt lead n. Obsolete lead sulphide.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > [adjective] > subjected to heat or fire
decoctc1420
concoct1534
well-burnt1548
burnt1661
heat-treated1946
the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > sulphides and related minerals > [noun] > galena group > lead sulphide
plumbago1617
plumbary1657
galena1671
burnt lead1728
slickenside1768
lead glance1811
galenite1868
the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > lead > [noun] > compounds > lead sulphide
plumbago1617
burnt lead1728
the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > copper > [noun] > compounds
ferretto1662
burnt copper1790
the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [noun] > reddish brown > sienna
Terra Sienna1760
burnt sienna1844
Italian earth1854
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 459 Cathereticks, burnt pumice-stone, burnt alum, burnt vitriol, burnt antimony or crocus metallorum..Causticks, live lime, burnt-brasse, sublimat mercury.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Lead Burnt-Lead is..made of Plates of Lead melted in a Pot with Sulphur, and reduced into a brown Powder.
1790 W. Richardson Chem. Princ. Metallic Arts 124 When it [copper] is exposed to a red heat..it separates in scales, which are called burnt copper.
1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 4 412 To medical practitioners in general, burnt sponge is known to be the basis of the Coventry remedy.
1844 W. M. Thackeray May Gambols in Wks. (1899) XIII. 441 I have so often wandered before with burnt-sienna plough-boys.
1846 C. Dickens Pictures from Italy 41 Two burnt-sienna natives.
1946 R. Lehmann Gipsy's Baby and Other Stories 78 The expanses of burnt sienna mud.
d. Impressed by burning or branding; branded.
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society > communication > indication > marking > marking to identify > [adjective] > branded
inust1634
branded1652
burnt1652
flesh-branded1675
brand-marked1678
burnt-marked1705
firebranded1824
1652 Advt. in Severall Proc. Parl. No. 163. A Browne bay Mare..a burned O upon each hip.
e. burnt taste, burnt flavour, etc.: a taste, etc., resembling that of something that has been burnt; burnt cream = crème brûlée n. at crème n. Compounds.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > egg dishes > [noun] > custard
flawnc1300
charlet?c1390
dariole?a1400
dowset1425
flathonc1430
papina1450
flathec1450
fool1598
custarda1616
burnt cream1723
custard pudding1727
custard pie1729
flummery1747
floating island1771
custard cream1805
charlotte russea1845
crème caramel1846
cup-custard1853
pudding1896
crème renversée1912
leche flan1927
galaktoboureko1950
natillas1969
panna cotta1984
1723 J. Nott Cook's & Confectioner's Dict. sig. L4 Burnt Cream. Take Yolks of four or five Eggs, beat them well in a Stew-pan... Set the Cream on the Furnace [etc.].
1969 Observer 12 Jan. 32/8 Burnt Cream (layers of custard and clotted cream covered with sugar and browned).
5. Of wine, etc.: ‘Made hot’ (Johnson); see quot. 1876; the precise early sense is doubtful. (Now only dialect) burnt brandy: that from which part of the spirit has been removed by burning.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > drinks made with wine > [adjective] > heated wine
burnt1583
the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > brandy > [noun] > types of brandy
Nants1653
French brandy1655
snapdragon1676
Cognac brandy1687
guildive1698
aguardiente1752
cognac1755
Armagnac1797
Jew brandy1817
pisco1825
Cape smoke1846
marc1848
fine champagne1864
burnt brandy1880
dop1889
grape-brandy1892
grappa1893
beno1903
V.S.O.P.1907
jackass brandy1909
fine1923
Napoleon brandy1930
Remy Martin1932
framboise1933
mampoer1934
witblits1934
Metaxa1938
Soberano1963
Napoleon1968
1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses (new ed.) i. sig. Kiv Commyng to..a Tauerne..called for burnte Wine, Sacke, Malmesie, Hipocras, and what not.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) ii. i. 200 Ile giue you a pottle of burn'd sacke. View more context for this quotation
1661 S. Pepys Diary 15 Jan. (1970) II. 14 A cup of burnt wine at the taverne.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 36. ⁋5 I'll lay Ten to Three, I drink Three Pints of burnt Claret at your Funeral.
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby ‘Burnt wine from a silver flagon’ was handed..being a heated preparation of port wine with spices and sugar.
1880 Barman's Man. 55 Burnt brandy..one glass of Cognac and half a table-spoonful of white sugar, burnt in a saucer.
6. Affected as with burning.
a. Of grain: Affected by smut, ergot, etc.; cf. Compounds.
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the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [adjective] > affected by parasite or fungi
burnt1597
bunty1855
bunted1857
1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 70 Burnt Rie hath no one good propertie.
1807 R. Andrews in A. Young Gen. View Agric. Essex I. vii. 295 Ears of smut, or what we call burnt wheat.
b. Affected by venereal disease.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > venereal disease > [adjective] > infected with
cunt-bitten?a1513
powdereda1616
venereal1683
burnt1693
1693 W. Robertson Phraseologia Generalis (new ed.) 289 A burnt whore.
c. (See quot. 1909.)
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > skin with hair attached or fur > [adjective] > attributes of furs generally
pureda1382
stag1545
burnt1909
furriered1923
ranched1932
sheared1939
let-out1949
1909 Daily Chron. 23 Feb. 7/2 The buyer should beware of..burnt furs. Such furs have been over-dyed, and the hair will soon become rusty and fall out.
7.
a. burnt (colour), a deep shade of yellowish brown; so burnt-coloured adj.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [adjective] > dark brown
burnetc1200
fusk1599
fusky1610
chocolate-coloured1736
brunneous1815
chocolate1819
ustulate1826
scorched1832
fuscescent1881
forest-brown1892
burnt-coloured1896
Jacobean1918
mocha1977
the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [noun] > yellowish brown > deep yellowish brown
burnt (colour)1896
1896 Daily News 2 July 8/7 Hats of ‘burnt’ straw, this being the technical name of a deep shade of yellowish brown.
1899 Westm. Gaz. 20 Apr. 3/3 Burnt-coloured straw.
1923 Weekly Disp. 25 Feb. 14 Colours: Navy,..Nut, Mastic and Burnt.
b. Of a colour or shade of colour: having the appearance of darkening by scorching.
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the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [adjective] > relating to tone > dark
wana1000
swartOE
darkOE
under-dark1382
sad1415
swartish1483
sable?a1513
dark-coloured?1523
swarth?1527
fuskish1563
swarty1572
saturnine1581
sable-suiteda1592
sable visaged1608
gloomy1632
sable-vested1667
fuscous1671
umbratile1678
sable-hooded1770
gangrenous1794
burnt1897
bead-dark1937
1897 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 104. 360/3 Colors for Artists... Burnt Roman Ochre—Burnt Sienna—Burnt Terre Verte.
1923 Daily Mail 19 Feb. 5 Coloured Shantung... In a full range of new colourings, including..Rose, Burnt Orange, Almond, [etc.].
1923 Daily Mail 19 Mar. 1 Burnt Gold.
Compounds
burnt almond n. an almond enclosed in burnt sugar; hence, a fashion shade of brown.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > [noun] > nut confections
pinionade1329
butter of almonds?c1425
almond butter1502
almond comfit1569
sugar-almond1594
musk almond1675
praline1714
almond snow1723
almond1783
nougat1827
almond rock1841
burnt almond1850
pistachio candy1853
nougatine1868
noyau1899
gianduja1902
Montélimar1908
turron1918
the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [noun] > other browns
umberc1568
Spanish brown1660
earth colour1688
raw umber1702
iron brown1714
clove-brown1794
raw sienna1797
wood-brown1805
moorit1809
coffee1815
oak1815
burnt almond1850
Vandyke brown1850
Turk's head1853
catechu brown1860
oak brown1860
mummy brown1861
walnut-brown1865
Havana1873
havana brown1875
wax-brown1887
box1889
nutria1897
caramel1909
wallflower brown1913
cigar1923
desert-brown1923
sunburn1923
tobacco1923
maple1926
butterscotch1927
walnut1934
snuff1951
mink1955
toffee1960
sludge1962
earth-tone1973
1850 Family Friend 3 327/1 Put a burnt almond..in the centre.
1892 Encycl. Pract. Cookery 14/2 Pound the Burnt Almonds..in a mortar.
1895 Cassell's Family Mag. June 554/1 [A bonnet] of burnt-almond straw.
1913 ‘A. R. Hope’ Half & Half Trag. 121 Treating me to twopence worth of ‘burned almonds’.
burnt-arse n.
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1690 W. Walker Idiomatologia Anglo-Lat. 80 The Pot calls the Pan burnt-arse.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > pear > [noun] > other types of pear
calewey1377
choke-pear1530
muscadel1555
lording1573
bon-chrétienc1575
Burgundian pear1578
king pear1585
amiot1600
bergamot1600
butter pear1600
dew-pear1600
greening1600
bottle pear1601
gourd-pear1601
critling1611
pearc1612
nutmeg1629
rosewater pear1629
amber pear1638
Christian1651
chesil1664
diego1664
frith-pear1664
primate1664
saffron pear1664
Windsor pear1664
nonsuch1674
muscat1675
burnt-cat1676
ambrette1686
sanguinole1693
satin1693
St. Germain pear1693
amadot1706
burree1719
Doyenne1731
beurré1736
colmar1736
chaumontel1755
Marie Louise1817
seckel1817
vergaloo1828
Passe Colmar1837
glou-morceau1859
London sugar1860
Kieffer pear1880
sand pear1880
sandy pear1884
nashi1892
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > pear > other types of
calewey1377
honey peara1400
pome-pear1440
pome-wardena1513
choke-pear1530
muscadel1555
worry pear1562
lording1573
bon-chrétienc1575
Burgundian pear1578
king pear1585
pound pear1585
poppering1597
wood of Jerusalem1597
muscadine1598
amiot1600
bergamot1600
butter pear1600
dew-pear1600
greening1600
mollart1600
roset1600
wax pear1600
bottle pear1601
gourd-pear1601
Venerian pear1601
musk pear1611
rose pear1611
pusill1615
Christian1629
nutmeg1629
rolling pear1629
surreine1629
sweater1629
amber pear1638
Venus-pear1648
horse-pear1657
Martin1658
russet1658
rousselet1660
diego1664
frith-pear1664
maudlin1664
Messire Jean1664
primate1664
sovereign1664
spindle-pear1664
stopple-pear1664
sugar-pear1664
virgin1664
Windsor pear1664
violet-pear1666
nonsuch1674
muscat1675
burnt-cat1676
squash pear1676
rose1678
Longueville1681
maiden-heart1685
ambrette1686
vermilion1691
admiral1693
sanguinole1693
satin1693
St. Germain pear1693
pounder pear1697
vine-pear1704
amadot1706
marchioness1706
marquise1706
Margaret1707
short-neck1707
musk1708
burree1719
marquis1728
union pear1728
Doyenne pear1731
Magdalene1731
beurré1736
colmar1736
Monsieur Jean1736
muscadella1736
swan's egg1736
chaumontel1755
St Michael's pear1796
Williams1807
Marie Louise1817
seckel1817
Bartlett1828
vergaloo1828
Passe Colmar1837
glou-morceau1859
London sugar1860
snow-pear1860
Comice1866
Kieffer pear1880
sand pear1880
sandy pear1884
snowy pear1884
1676 J. Worlidge Vinetum Britannicum 169 Burnt-cat, Lady-pear, Ice-pear,..are all very good Winter-pears.
burnt cork n. cork that has been burnt so that it can be used for blackening the face, hands, etc.; frequently attributive, as burnt-cork artist, a performer in a blackface minstrel show.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > blackening agent > [noun]
blatchOE
bleckc1440
bleacha1500
bleaching?1518
black1558
bletch1570
blacking?1571
linka1616
denigrator1658
black wash1684
shoe-blacking1735
burnt corkc1800
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > variety, etc. > performers in variety, etc. > [noun] > black minstrel
Ethiopian serenader1843
minstrel1843
Ethiopian1844
nigger minstrel1844
Christy's Minstrels1847
Negro minstrel1853
burnt-cork artist1880
c1800 C. Mathews in A. Mathews Mem. C. Mathews (1838) I. xv. 305 Camel's hair pencils, hare's feet, whiting, burnt corks.
1840 R. H. Barham Ingoldsby Legends Execution, Blacking his nose with a piece of burnt cork.
1869 Porcupine 3 July 123/1 The Theatre Royal has within the last week or two been usurped by a company of the ‘burnt cork’ professors.
1873 ‘A. R. Hope’ Night before Holidays (1874) 98 We had one very fine false beard,..and there was plenty of burned cork to be had.
1880 E. James Amateur Negro Minstrel's Guide 10 A pair of legs such as Nelse Seymour had..are great attractions in a burnt-cork artist.
1893 P. H. Emerson (title) Signor Lippo, burnt-cork artiste.
1909 Daily Chron. 31 July 6/1 He was among the earliest of the ‘Christy Minstrels’, and..was in the front rank of burnt-cork artists.
burnt-cork v. (transitive) to blacken with burnt cork.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > making or becoming black > make black [verb (transitive)] > with burnt cork
burnt-cork1885
1885 J. K. Jerome On Stage 3 We..burnt-corked our hands and faces.
1898 Daily News 6 May 2/6 For money-making it is necessary to wear masks or to burnt-cork the face.
burnt-corked adj. blackened with burnt cork.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > making or becoming black > [adjective] > blackened > with burnt cork
corked1836
burnt-corked1884
1884 Liverpool Daily Post 2 Jan. 4/7 Their burnt-corked faces.
burnt-ear n. a disease in corn, in which, owing to the growth of a minute fungus Uredo segetum, the ear appears covered with blackened powder.
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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > fungal > associated with crop or food plants > smut or smutty condition
ustilago1578
smit1585
smutting1621
smuttiness1659
smut1665
bragc1682
burnt-eara1722
slain1788
dust-brand1850
stinking rust1861
stinking bunt1889
loose smut1890
stinking smut1891
dust1897
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husb. (E.D.S.) (1880) 150 Burnt-ear, Ustilago in corn.
1835 Penny Cycl. III. 465/2 Diseases to which barley is subject..the smut, the burnt ear, blight.
burnt feed n. Australian (see quot.).
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun] > aftercrop > second growth or fire-growth
regrowth1741
fireweed1764
second growth1829
burnt feed1848
1848 H. W. Haygarth Recoll. Bush Life Austral. vii. 73 A patch of ‘burnt feed’ (as the young herbage is called which springs up..where the old grass has been set on fire).
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society > communication > indication > marking > marking to identify > [adjective] > branded
inust1634
branded1652
burnt1652
flesh-branded1675
brand-marked1678
burnt-marked1705
firebranded1824
1705 in London Gaz. No. 4163/4 A..Mare..burnt-marked on the near Hip with H.
burnt stuff n. Australian (see quot. 1945).
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the world > the earth > minerals > mineral deposits > features of stratum or vein > [noun] > obstruction or fault
rider1653
fore-stone1668
jamb1721
septuma1728
horse1778
fault1796
heave1802
girdle1819
burnt stuff1852
swine back1883
white horse1886
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > sedimentary formation > [noun] > stratum > stratum by constitution > hard stratum
rib1667
sill1794
burnt stuff1852
1852 J. Bonwick Notes Gold Digger 9 Some neighbouring bearded digger turns round and condescendingly remarks, that it is only the ‘burnt stuff’.
1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. v. 94 Burnt stuff, a stratum of iron-hard rock or compacted clay and rock encountered during digging.
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burnt alabaster n. now historical alabaster that has been calcined or treated with fire, typically in order to make plaster; cf. plaster of Paris n.
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1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. ii. x. f. 84v/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Within their doores also such as are of abilitie doe oft make their flowers, and parget of fine Alabaster burned, which they cal plaster of Paris.
1623 G. Markham Countrey Contentments, or Eng. Huswife (new ed.) ii. 208 The best Garner then that can be made..is to be made either of broken tile-shread, or broken bricks,..and bound together with Plaster of Parris, or our ordinarie English Plaster, or burnt Alablaster.
1672 T. Sherley Philos. Ess. ii. 19 The powder of Plaster of Paris, or burnt Alabaster, if it be mixed with water, without any sort of salt, will coagulate into an entire stony lump.
1747 R. Campbell London Tradesman xxviii. 139 Plaister of Paris is made of Burnt Alabaster: The Alabaster is first pounded and then burnt; when they are to use it, they mix it with Water to a due consistence, and in less than a quarter of an hour it acquires a Hardness.
1760 Philos. Trans. 1759 (Royal Soc.) 51 47 I took what the bricklayers call fine stuff, or putty; to this I added a small quantity of burnt alabaster, to make it dry.
1888 C. B. Todd Story City of N.Y. xii. 207 His ‘full bottomed’ wig is plentifully powdered with starch finely ground and sifted, to which burnt alabaster or whiting has been added.
1990 K. N. Chaudhuri Asia before Europe vii. 207 Plaster made from burnt alabaster, and mixed with lime and pounded sea-shells.
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