n. [ So called in allusion to the fable of the man who burned his barn in order to rid it of rats. ] 1. A member of the radical section of the Democratic party in New York, about the middle of the 19th century, which was hostile to extension of slavery, public debts, corporate privileges, etc., and supported Van Buren against Cass for president in 1848; -- opposed to Hunker. [ Political Cant, U. S. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. an impressively successful or unusually good event. [ informal ] ”The rock concert was a real barnburner.” [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A furnace or stove in which the fuel is contained in a hopper or chamber, and is fed to the fire as the lower stratum is consumed. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ OE. burne, borne, AS. burna; akin to OS. brunno spring, G. born, brunnen, OHG. prunno, Goth. brunna, Icel. brunnr, and perh. to Gr. &unr_;. The root is prob. that of burn, v., because the source of a stream seems to issue forth bubbling and boiling from the earth. Cf. Torrent, and see Burn, v. ] A stream or rivulet; a burn. [ 1913 Webster ]

My little boat can safely pass this perilous bourn. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. borne. See Bound a limit. ] A bound; a boundary; a limit. Hence: Point aimed at; goal. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where the land slopes to its watery bourn. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
No traveler returns. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sole bourn, sole wish, sole object of my song. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

To make the doctrine . . . their intellectual bourne. Tyndall. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ See Bude light. ] A burner consisting of two or more concentric Argand burners (the inner rising above the outer) and a central tube by which oxygen gas or common air is supplied. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Chem.), a kind of burner, invented by Professor Bunsen of Heidelberg, consisting of a straight tube, four or five inches in length, having small holes for the entrance of air at the bottom. Illuminating gas being also admitted at the bottom, a mixture of gas and air is formed which burns at the top with a feebly luminous but intensely hot flame. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. & a. See Burnt. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. Burnished. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, burns or sets fire to anything. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The part of a lamp, gas fixture, etc., where the flame is produced. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bunsen's burner (Chem.), see Bunsen burner. --
Argand burner,
Rose burner, etc. See under Argand, Rose, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. burnet burnet; also, brownish (the plant perh. being named from its color), fr. F. brunet, dim. of brun brown; cf. OF. brunete a sort of flower. See Brunette. ] (Bot.) A genus of perennial herbs (Poterium); especially, Poterium Sanguisorba, the common, or garden, burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

Burnet moth (Zool.), in England, a handsome moth (Zygæna filipendula), with crimson spots on the wings. --
Burnet saxifrage. (Bot.) See Saxifrage. --
Canadian burnet, a marsh plant (Poterium Canadensis). --
Great burnet,
Wild burnet, Poterium oficinalis (or Sanguisorba oficinalis). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Burnettized p. pr. & vb. n. Burnettizing. ] (Manuf.) To subject (wood, fabrics, etc.) to a process of saturation in a solution of chloride of zinc, to prevent decay; -- a process invented by Sir William Burnett. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. prenom. 1. drained of energy or effectiveness; driven to apathy by overwork or prolonged stress; -- of people.
Syn. -- burned out(predicate), burnt out(predicate), fagged, exhausted, fatigued, played-out(prenominal), played out(predicate), spent, washed-out(prenominal), washed out(predicate), worn-out(prenominal), worn out(predicate). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. damaged or destroyed by or as if by fire; as, barricaded the street with burned-out cars.
Syn. -- burned out(predicate), burnt out(predicate). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. agitated vigorously; -- of a liquid.
Syn. -- churning, roiling, roiled, roily, turbulent. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖a. [ F., p. p. of contourner to twist. ] (Her.) Turned in a direction which is not the usual one; -- said of an animal turned to the sinister which is usually turned to the dexter, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. eburneus, fr. ebur ivory. See Ivory. ] Made of or relating to ivory. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A gas burner with a device for lighting by an electric spark. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ F. ] (Mil.) The chamber of a mine in which the powder is placed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The jet piece of a gas fixture where the gas is burned as it escapes from one or more minute orifices. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A fish. See Gurnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ n. [ OF. gornal, gournal, gornart, perh. akin to F. grogner to grunt; cf. Ir. guirnead gurnard. ] (Zool.) One ofseveral European marine fishes, of the genus Trigla and allied genera, having a large and spiny head, with mailed cheeks. Some of the species are highly esteemed for food. The name is sometimes applied to the American sea robins. [ Written also gournet. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Plyling gurnard. See under Flying. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having heartburn. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Journeys [ OE. jornee, journee, prop., a day's journey, OF. jornée, jurnée, a day, a day's work of journey, F. journée, fr. OF. jorn, jurn, jor a day, F. jour, fr. L. diurnus. See Journal. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The travel or work of a day. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

We have yet large day, for scarce the sun
Hath finished half his journey. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Travel or passage from one place to another, especially one covering a large distance or taking a long time. [ 1913 Webster ]

The good man . . . is gone a long journey. Prov. vii. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hence: [ figurative ], A passage through life, or a passage through any significant experience, or from one state to another. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

We must all have the same journey's end. Bp. Stillingfleet.

4. The distance that is traveled in a journey{ 2 }, or the time taken to complete a journey{ 2 }; as, it's a two-day journey from the oasis into Cairo by camel; from Mecca to Samarkand is quite a journey. [ PJC ]

Syn. -- Tour; excursion; trip; expedition; pilgrimage; jaunt. -- Journey, Tour, Excursion, Pilgrimage. The word journey suggests the idea of a somewhat prolonged traveling for a specific object, leading a person to pass directly from one point to another. In a tour, we take a roundabout course from place to place, more commonly for pleasure, though sometimes on business. An excursion is usually a brief tour or trip for pleasure, health, etc. In a pilgrimage we travel to a place hallowed by our religions affections, or by some train of sacred or tender associations. A journey on important business; the tour of Europe; an excursion to the lakes; a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Journeyed p. pr. & vb. n. Journeying. ] To travel from place to place; to go from home to a distance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south. Gen. xii. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To traverse; to travel over or through. [ R. ] “I journeyed many a land.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Worn out with journeying. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who journeys. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the act or process of traveling from one place to another.
Syn. -- journey. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Journeymen 1. Formerly, a man hired to work by the day; now, commonly, one who has finished an apprenticeship and is a competent worker in a handicraft or trade, but has not received recognition as a master; -- distinguished from apprentice and from master workman. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: A competent and experienced worker who performs adequately but without a high level of expertise or imagination. [ PJC ]

n. 1. Originally, work done by the day; work done by a journeyman at his trade. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: Routine or relatively unskilled work performed under direction of a supervisor. [ PJC ]

{ } n. [ Ir. mo mhuirnin my darling; mo my + mhuirnin darling. ] My darling; -- an Irish term of endearment for a girl or woman. “Erin mavournin.” Campbell. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ See 2d Morne. ] The armed or feruled end of a staff; in a sheephook, the end of the staff to which the hook is attached. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who mourns or is grieved at any misfortune, as the death of a friend. [ 1913 Webster ]

His mourners were two hosts, his friends and foes. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who attends a funeral as a hired mourner. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mourners were provided to attend the funeral. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. See Nocturn. ] (Mus.) A night piece, or serenade. The name is now used for a certain graceful and expressive form of instrumental composition, as the nocturne for orchestra in Mendelsohn's “Midsummer-Night's Dream” music. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who overturns. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who returns. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who sojourns. [ 1913 Webster ]

We are strangers before thee, and sojourners. 1. Chron. xxix. 15. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being sour. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eng. Law) Formerly the title of the sealer of writs in chancery. Mozley & W. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who spurns. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A circle or cluster of gas-burners for lighting and ventilating public buildings. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Work turned on a lathe; turnery. [ Obs. ] See Turnery. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. tornei, tornoi, F. tournoi, fr. OF. torneier, tornoier, tournoier, to tit, to tourney, F. tournoyer to turn round and round. See Turn, v. t. ] A tournament. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

At tilt or tourney or like warlike game. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

We hold a tourney here to-morrow morn,
And there is scantly time for half the work. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Cf.OF. torneier. See Tourney, n. ] To perform in tournaments; to tilt. [ 1913 Webster ]

Well could he tourney, and in lists debate. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) See Turnip. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who turns; especially, one whose occupation is to form articles with a lathe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A variety of pigeon; a tumbler. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ G. ] A person who practices athletic or gymnastic exercises. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ So called from the English chemist and mineralogist, C. H. Turner. ] (Min.) A variety of monazite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. tournerie. ] 1. The art of fashioning solid bodies into cylindrical or other forms by means of a lathe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Things or forms made by a turner, or in the lathe. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chairs of wood, the seats triangular, the backs, arms, and legs loaded with turnery. Walpole. [ 1913 Webster ]

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n. & v. Tourney. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. “In open turney.” Spenser. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. un- + turned. ] Not turned; not revolved or reversed. [ 1913 Webster ]

To leave no stone unturned, to leave nothing untried for accomplishing one's purpose. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ He ] left unturned no stone
To make my guilt appear, and hide his own. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]