Burnt (&?;), p. p. & a. 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. Called also burnt sacrifice. [2 Sam.
xxiv. 22.]
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