Matchmaker: alternatives and connections

The act of burning, or heating to dryness; the state of being thus heated or dried.

A utensil for supporting wood when burning in a fireplace, one being placed on each side; a firedog; as, a pair of andirons.

The burning of metallic colors into glass, earthenware, etc.

Divination by inspecting a burning coal.

Hot or burning; causing a sensation of burning; fiery; as, ardent spirits, that is, distilled liquors; an ardent fever.

Burning; ardent.

A sort of hand gun or firearm a contrivance answering to a trigger, by which the burning match was applied. The musket was a later inv…

The malicious burning of a dwelling house or outhouse of another man, which by the common law is felony; the malicious and voluntary f…

An execution of such sentence, by the civil power, esp. the burning of a heretic. It was usually held on Sunday, and was made a great…

A name given to several species of Salsola from which soda is made, by burning the barilla in heaps and lixiviating the ashes.

Steel made directly from cast iron, by burning out a portion of the carbon and other impurities that the latter contains, through the…

Mineral pitch; a black, tarry substance, burning with a bright flame; Jew's pitch. It occurs as an abundant natural product in many pl…

Burning with a blaze; as, a blazing fire; blazing torches.

Pale, without redness or glare, -- said of a flame; hence, of the color of burning brimstone, betokening the presence of ghosts or dev…

A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor; -- found at Bovey Tracey, Devo…

A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct.

A pan for holding burning coals.

Refuse left in the process of making coke or burning charcoal.