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Pyrography

A process of printing ornamenting or carving by burning with heated instruments One variant is wood burning

Sati

Sati, means the act of burning or burying alive of-- (i) any widow along with the body of her deceased husband or any other

Firmware

Firmware, 'software kept in semi-permanent memory. Firmware is used in conjunction with hardware and software. It also shares the characteristics of both. Firmware is usually stored on PROMs (Programmable Read-Only Memory) or EPROMs (Electrical PROMs). Firmware...

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Marriage

after the death of the promisor. Such appears to be the better opinion (see per Lord Moncrieff in Burns v. Burns, cited in the Report of the Marriage Commission, 1868), but the question has not been judicially

Denshiring of land

Denshiring of land (otherwise called burn-beating), a method of improving land by casting parings of earth, turf, and stubble into heaps, which when dried

fire resistant

Not able to burn or able to burn only with difficulty

Chauffeur

Brigands in bands who about 1793 pillaged burned and killed in parts of France so called because they used to burn the feet of their victims

Arson

see ss. 42-44; to crops, etc., ss. 16-18; to coalmines, s. 26. Means, at common law, the malicious burning of someone else's dwelling house or outhouse that is either appurtenant to the dwelling house or within the

Quench

To extinguish to overwhelm to make an end of said of flame and fire of things burning and figuratively of sensations and emotions as to quench flame to quench a candle to quench thirst love

Snuff

The part of a candle wick charred by the flame whether burning or not

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