Burn

1. n. A small stream.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. v. t. To apply a cautery to; to cauterize.
8. 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.
9. v. i. To be of fire; to flame.
10. v. i. To suffer from, or be scorched by, an excess of heat.
11. 1n. 1 A small stream.
12. 1v. t. 1 To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; — frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.