over-burntadj.
/ˌəʊvəˈbəːnt/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈbərnt/ΚΠ
a1540 (c1460) G. Hay tr. Bk. King Alexander 10784 And als the erde with hete is sa ourbrinte.
2. Burnt or fired for too long; burnt excessively.
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1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 382/1 The exorbitant and over-burnt Wick in a candle.
1834 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. 305 Lime..if burnt with too violent a fire..will not slake, and becomes useless, or what is termed over-burnt, and, in some places, dead-lime.
1879 Notes Building Constr. III. 105 Hard Stocks are overburnt bricks, sound, but considerably blemished both in form and colour.
1890 Contemp. Rev. Dec. 894 The reason that overburnt gypsum will not rehydrate.
1912 Dict. National Biogr. 1901–11 III. 353/2 In a Bessemer converter, lined with overburnt lime, he succeeded in almost entirely eliminating phosphorus from..molten phosphoric pig iron.
1970 H. Braun Parish Churches vii. 96 Peculiar to the Georgian era is the use of over-burnt ‘headers’ or ‘chuffs’ arranged in diaper patterns in the brick bonding.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.a1540- to sicken for
- to side out for a bend
- to side up with
- to sift and search
- to sift to the bran
- to sigh sore
- to sigh unsound
- to sight
- to sign a pledge
- to sign away
- to sign down
- to sign for
- to sign in
- to sign into
- to sign off
- to sign off on
- to sign on
- to sign on the dotted line
- to sign one's own death warrant
- to sign out
- to sign out of
- to sign over
- to sign the pledge
- to sign to
- to sign up