These are the meanings of the letters BNUURY when you unscramble them.
- Burn (n.)
A disease in vegetables. See Brand, n., 6.
- Burn (n.)
A hurt, injury, or effect caused by fire or excessive or intense heat.
- Burn (n.)
A small stream.
- Burn (n.)
The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking; as, they have a good burn.
- Burn (v. i.)
In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
- Burn (v. i.)
To be of fire; to flame.
- Burn (v. i.)
To combine energetically, with evolution of heat; as, copper burns in chlorine.
- Burn (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.
- Burn (v. i.)
To suffer from, or be scorched by, an excess of heat.
- Burn (v. t.)
To apply a cautery to; to cauterize.
- Burn (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.
- Burn (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.
- Burn (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.
- Burn (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.
- Burn (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.
- Burn (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.
- Bury (n.)
A borough; a manor; as, the Bury of St. Edmond's
- Bury (n.)
A manor house; a castle.
- Bury (v. t.)
Specifically: To cover out of sight, as the body of a deceased person, in a grave, a tomb, or the ocean; to deposit (a corpse) in its resting place, with funeral ceremonies; to inter; to inhume.
- Bury (v. t.)
To cover out of sight, either by heaping something over, or by placing within something, as earth, etc.; to conceal by covering; to hide; as, to bury coals in ashes; to bury the face in the hands.
- Bury (v. t.)
To hide in oblivion; to put away finally; to abandon; as, to bury strife.
- Ruby (a.)
Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips.
- Ruby (n.)
A precious stone of a carmine red color, sometimes verging to violet, or intermediate between carmine and hyacinth red. It is a red crystallized variety of corundum.
- Ruby (n.)
Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytolaema. The males have a ruby-colored throat or breast.
- Ruby (n.)
See Agate, n., 2.
- Ruby (n.)
That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a red blain or carbuncle.
- Ruby (n.)
The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint.
- Ruby (v. t.)
To make red; to redden.