burning : Idioms & Phrases

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Burning bush

  • noun (Old Testament) the bush that burned without being consumed and from which God spoke to Moses
  • noun deciduous shrub having purple capsules enclosing scarlet seeds
    Euonymus atropurpureus; wahoo.
  • noun Eurasian perennial herb with white flowers that emit flammable vapor in hot weather
    gas plant; Dictamnus alba; dittany; fraxinella.
  • noun densely branched Eurasian plant; foliage turns purple-red in autumn
    fire bush; Bassia scoparia; Kochia scoparia; belvedere; fire-bush; summer cypress.
WordNet
  • (Bot.), an ornamental shrub (Euonymus atropurpureus), bearing a crimson berry.
Webster 1913

Burning fluid

  • any volatile illuminating oil, as the lighter petroleums (naphtha, benzine), or oil of turpentine (camphine), but esp. a mixture of the latter with alcohol.
Webster 1913

Burning glass

  • a conxex lens of considerable size, used for producing an intense heat by converging the sun's rays to a focus.
Webster 1913

Burning house

  • (Metal.), the furnace in which tin ores are calcined, to sublime the sulphur and arsenic from the pyrites. Weale.
Webster 1913

Burning mirror

  • a concave mirror, or a combination of plane mirrors, used for the same purpose as a burning glass.
Webster 1913