Reverse Dictionary: BURN

ADJECTIVES
1023 — SWALING → SWEALING burning, blazing
1297 YBRENT burnt → obs.
1400 — LOWING burning, blazing; glowing, gleaming; later,, full of passion or ardour 
1550 — ADUST → ADUSTED burnt up; scorched, seared; dried up with heat, parched → obs.
1607 AESTIVE burning or hot; belonging to summer → obs.
1611 ADUSTIBLE capable of being burnt, or dried with fire → obs.
1626 ADURENT burning, hot and dry → obs.
1633 ADUSTIVE burning, scorching, fiery → obs.
1633 — EXUSTIBLE capable of being burnt up → obs.
1657 EXUST burnt or dried up → obs.
1791 — SPUNKY sparkling; burning or shining brightly → Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
..19C — RAZZENED burnt in the oven rather than thoroughly baked; said of food → Eng. dial.
1856 FAGGOTY-MINDED inclined to burn opponents; disposed to use faggots 
1898 — BISHOPPED burnt; said of milk, etc. → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1969 — CRISPIED slightly burnt around the edges → Amer. dial.


ADVERBS
1811 ALUNT burning, in a blazing state, on fire → Sc.


NOUNS
1410 SWALING → SWEALING a burning; a singeing
1542 BURNING a burn; a sore caused by fire or heat → obs.
1559 ADUSTION a being burnt, or scorched; parched dryness → obs.
1583 EXUSTION a burning or burning up something → obs.
1594 ADUSTION a burning, scorching, heating to dryness, or parching → obs.
1616 — CALCINATION a burning to ashes; complete combustion 
1757 BLADDER a burn or scald; a pimple → Eng. dial.
1773 — SCOUDER → SCOUTHER → SCOWDER → SCOWTHER a burn, scorch, singe; a hasty toasting → Sc.
1790 — THE BISHOP’S FOOT a taste of burning → Sc.
1808 — SCAM a burn, singe, scorch, or the mark of such → Sc.
1813 — SCAUM a burn, scorch; a mark caused by burning or singeing → Sc.
1880 SCOUGE a touch of burning or a sharp singe → Sc. obs.
1905 ANGUISH the moisture which exudes from a wound or burn → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1911 — BIRN a burnt mark → Sc. (Bk.)
1987 HORRIBLECTOMY treatment for severe burns → Amer. medical usage


NOUNS, PERSON
1989 — CRISPY CRITTER a badly burnt hospital patient → US sl.
1993 — CRISPY BATTER a person who has suffered burns or actually burned to death → UK sl.


PHRASES
1738 — THE BISHOP HAS SET HIS FOOT IN IT the contents of the dish have been burnt while being cooked; originally said of milk 


VERBS
1000 — SWEAL to consume with fire, to burn; to set fire to; to singe, to scorch
1175 QUICK to begin to burn; to kindle; said of a fire → obs.
1220 — SWITHE to burn, to scorch, to singe → obs.
1230 TENDER → TINDER to burn, to become enflamed, to glow → obs.
1300 TO-BRENN to burn up, to consume or destroy by burning; to burn, to be ‘burning hot’ → obs.
1400 LOWE to burn, to blaze; to be on fire → chiefly Sc. & Eng. dial.
1420 ADURE to burn completely; to scorch, to parch → obs.
1420 BYSWELT to burn, to scorch → obs.
1432 SUCCEND to burn, to kindle, to set on fire → obs.
1530 SQUARKEN to burn, to scorch; to burn in roasting → obs.
1550 ADUST to burn, to scorch, to scar; to dry up with heat → obs.
1553 — LAY IN ASHES to burn to the ground, to destroy utterly 
1586 — IGNIFY to cause to burn, to set on fire 
1600 — SMOTHER to smoulder; to burn slowly
1600 — SWITHEN to burn, to scorch, to singe → obs.
1621 FRY A FAGGOT to be burnt alive → obs.
1623 EXUST to burn up → obs.
1641 — CALCINE to burn to ashes, to consume 
1673 NEAL to burn → obs.
1700 SIZZ to burn, to brand → obs.
1701 INCENDIATE to burn, to set fire to; to make fire of → obs.
1746 — SCAM to burn slightly; to scorch, to singe with dry heat; said of cloth, skin, cakes, etc. → Sc.
..19C — RASH to burn in cooking → Eng. dial.
1808 HAISTER to burn; to scorch; to cook too hastily, to scorch; applied to badly-made toast or scones baked on an over-heated girdle → Sc.
1810 — SCOODER → SCOUDER → SCOUTHER → SCOWDER → SCOWTHER → SKOODER to burn, to scorch, to singe → Sc.
1825 — SCRENT → SCRINT → SKRENT → SKRINT to burn; to scorch; to singe → Eng. dial.
1838 — SCAUM to burn, to scorch, to singe → Sc.
1865 — SWITHER to burn, to scorch, to singe → Eng. dial.
1867 — SCRAP to burn, to scorch → Eng. dial.
1880 FLIMMER to burn unsteadily; to flicker 
1904 — REEVE to burn with a strong, bright flame → Sc. (Bk.)
1904 — SCOUL to burn fiercely → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — RANT to burn fiercely, to blaze; to blow or stir up a fire → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — TAKE to burn brightly → Sc. (Bk.)
1905 — TIND to burn, to blaze → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1911 — BIRN to burn → Sc. (Bk.)
1931 — TORCH to set a fire deliberately; to burn a building → US sl.
1966 ZIPPO to set something on fire and burn it → US sl.