"Burn" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH

To consume with fire. The verb “to burn,” in an indictment for arson, ls to be taken ln its common meaning of “to con-sume with fire.” Hester v. State, 17 Ga. 130

A disease in vegetables. See Brand, n., 6.

To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of
heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.

To make or produce, as an effect or result, by the
application of fire or heat; as, to burn a hole; to burn charcoal; to
burn letters into a block.

To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by
action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does; as, to burn the
mouth with pepper.

To combine energetically, with evolution of heat; as,
copper burns in chlorine.

To injure by fire or heat; to change destructively some
property or properties of, by undue exposure to fire or heat; to
scorch; to scald; to blister; to singe; to char; to sear; as, to burn
steel in forging; to burn one's face in the sun; the sun burns the
grass.

To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent,
with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize; as, a man burns a
certain amount of carbon at each respiration; to burn iron in oxygen.

A small stream.

A hurt, injury, or effect caused by fire or excessive or
intense heat.

To have a condition, quality, appearance, sensation, or
emotion, as if on fire or excessively heated; to act or rage with
destructive violence; to be in a state of lively emotion or strong
desire; as, the face burns; to burn with fever.

The operation or result of burning or baking, as in
brickmaking; as, they have a good burn.

To suffer from, or be scorched by, an excess of heat.

To be of fire; to flame.

To apply a cautery to; to cauterize.

To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the
action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change
some property or properties of, by exposure to fire or heat in due
degree for obtaining a desired residuum, product, or effect; to bake;
as, to burn clay in making bricks or pottery; to burn wood so as to
produce charcoal; to burn limestone for the lime.

In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object
which is sought.