BPage 314
- English Word Burlesque Definition Ludicrous representation; exaggerated parody; grotesque satire.
- English Word Burlesque Definition An ironical or satirical composition intended to excite laughter, or to ridicule anything.
- English Word Burlesque Definition A ludicrous imitation; a caricature; a travesty; a gross perversion.
- English Word Burlesque Definition To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation in action or in language.
- English Word Burlesque Definition To employ burlesque.
- English Word Burlesqued Definition of Burlesque
- English Word Burlesquer Definition One who burlesques.
- English Word Burlesquing Definition of Burlesque
- English Word Burletta Definition A comic operetta; a music farce.
- English Word Burliness Definition Quality of being burly.
- English Word Burling Definition of Burl
- English Word Burly Definition Having a large, strong, or gross body; stout; lusty; -- now used chiefly of human beings, but formerly of animals, in the sense of stately or beautiful, and of inanimate things that were huge and bulky.
- English Word Burly Definition Coarse and rough; boisterous.
- English Word Burman Definition A member of the Burman family, one of the four great families Burmah; also, sometimes, any inhabitant of Burmah; a Burmese.
- English Word Burman Definition Of or pertaining to the Burmans or to Burmah.
- English Word Burmans Definition of Burman
- English Word Burmese Definition Of or pertaining to Burmah, or its inhabitants.
- English Word Burmese Definition A native or the natives of Burmah. Also (sing.), the language of the Burmans.
- English Word Burn Definition To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.
- English Word Burn Definition 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.
- English Word Burn Definition 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.
- English Word Burn Definition 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.
- English Word Burn Definition 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.
- English Word Burn Definition To apply a cautery to; to cauterize.
- English Word Burn Definition 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.
- English Word Burn Definition To be of fire; to flame.
- English Word Burn Definition To suffer from, or be scorched by, an excess of heat.
- English Word Burn Definition 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.
- English Word Burn Definition To combine energetically, with evolution of heat; as, copper burns in chlorine.
- English Word Burn Definition In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.