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- verb Obsolete spelling of
burn .
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Examples
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Imagine the rallies against the Iraq war where they burned American flags, or where a two-faced effigy depicting Bush and Kerry were burne.
Tea Party organizer vows to burn Pelosi and Perriello in effigy 2009
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In 1634 William Fennor wrote in his Palinodia: "And tosse their Pancakes up for feare they burne."
Archive 2009-02-01 Michele Ann Young 2009
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For the building of their houses, they sende not ouer sea for stone, thei burne no Calion to make lime to tempre their mortre, thei bake no brickes, nor digge no sande.
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The bones do the two ordenarie women burne, for the clensinge and purifienge of the soule.
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They burne their dead according to the auncient custome, and lay vp the ashes in the top of a Pyramis.
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Another most vile custome the foresaide nation doeth retaine: for when any man dieth they burne his dead corps to ashes: and if his wife suruiueth him, her they burne quicke, because (say they) she shall accompany her husband in his tilthe and husbandry, when he is come into a new world.
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When thei die thei burne them to pouldre, whiche thei reserue as a precious
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Now, in the same wood there be many riuers, wherein are great store of Crocodiles, and of other serpents, which the inhabitants thereabout do burne vp with straw and with other dry fewel, and so they go to gather their pepper without danger.
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It is without doubt (saith he) that some mountaines and fields burned in old time throughout the whole world: and in this our age do burne.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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They burne their dead according to the auncient custome, and lay vp the ashes in the top of a Pyramis.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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