burnt : Idioms & Phrases
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Burnt ear
- a black, powdery fungus which destroys grain. See
Smut .
Webster 1913
Burnt offering
- something offered and burnt on an altar, as an atonement for sin; a sacrifice. The offerings of the Jews were a clean animal, as an ox, a calf, a goat, or a sheep; or some vegetable substance, as bread, or ears of wheat or barley. Called also
burnt sacrifice . 2 Sam. xxiv. 22.