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12 consist of the earthy, powder-like matter which remains after the combustion of wood or coal.

is a glassy matter sometimes mingled with the ashes of mineral coal.

are small coals of fire mixed with ashes.

A is a portion of some animal or vegetable substance reduced, by burning, to the form of a coal. A piece of meat may be burned to a cinder.

[cineris], ashes. (L.) Hence,

Cineritious, resembling ashes in color; as, the cineritious substance of the brain.

Incinerate, to burn to ashes.

are small particles of ignited matter emitted from bodies in combustion.

, a spark. (L.) Hence,

Scintillate, to emit sparks.

To is to subject a moist substance to a dry heat.

To is to subject a substance, whether moist or dry, to the action of a dry heat.

To is to prepare food by means of heat.

To is to cook a moist substance in a pan without the addition of water.

To is to cook by immersing a substance in boiling water.

To is to cook by boiling.

Sodden, (past participle of seethe,) cooked by boiling.

To is to cook by placing over burning coals.

To is to burn so slightly as not essentially to change the texture or chemical composition of a substance.

To is to burn slightly and superficially, as in burning the nap of cloth or the hair of the skin.

To is slightly to scorch by the heat of a fire; as to toast bread or cheese.

To is to render very dry by the action of heat. We may parch corn. The ground may be parched by the heat of the sun. We may be parched with thirst.

To is to affect by the application of hot water.

To is to reduce by burning to a form resembling that of chalk or burnt lime. Shells and bones may be calcined. (L., calx, lime.)

To is to render liquid by means of heat.

To is to melt ice, or to soften by heat that which has been frozen.

consists in the formation, by heat, of bubbles filled with vapor.

is the action of boiling. (L., ebullio, to boil, from bulla, a bubble.)

To is to be in a state of ebullition; as, a seething cauldron.

To is to boil gently.

To is to boil without heat, in consequence of a rapid formation and escape of bubbles of gas. (L., ef for ex, forth; and ferveo, to boil.)

COLD is the privation of heat.

Cold is also the sensation caused by the escape of heat from the body.

Cold, (adj.,) having a temperature much below that of our bodies.

Cool, having a temperature slightly below that of our bodies.

, having a temperature equal to that of our bodies. (Spoken of liquids.)

To, when spoken of water, signifies to pass from a liquid to a solid state, in consequence of the escape of caloric.

To Freeze, when spoken of animals