Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of burning or searing.
  • noun In metallurgy, the operation of expelling one substance from another by heat, as sulphur and arsenic from ores in a muffle.
  • noun In pharmacy: The roasting or drying of moist substances so as to prepare them for pulverizing.
  • noun The burning of wine.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare The act of burning or searing.
  • noun (Old Chem.) The operation of expelling one substance from another by heat, as sulphur or arsenic from ores, in a muffle.
  • noun The roasting or drying of moist substances so as prepare them for pulverizing.
  • noun The burning of wine.
  • noun obsolete Lascivious passion; concupiscence.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun the action or fact of burning, especially roasting

Etymologies

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Latin ustulare ‘burn, scorch, sear’, from ust- past participle stem of urere ‘burn’.

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