Edit page | Page history | Printable version

Burnt

Consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried, as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun. Burnt ear, a black, powdery fungus which destroys grain. See smut. 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.

Synonym: burnt sacrifice.