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BURNING GLASS

Definition: BURNING GLASS

BURNING GLASS

1. A convex lens of considerable size, used for producing an intense heat by converging the sun's rays to a focus.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Crosswords: BURNING GLASS

English words defined with "BURNING GLASS": Burning mirror. (references)

Commercial Usage: BURNING GLASS

Domain	Title
Books	Burning Glass (reference) The Burning Glass (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Use in Literature: BURNING GLASS

Title	Author	Quote
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	(For I had about me my flint, steel, match, and burning glass.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Modern Translation: BURNING GLASS

Language		Translations for "BURNING GLASS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Finnish		polttolasi. (various references)

German		brennglas. (various references)

Manx		gless lostee. (various references)

Pig Latin		urningbay assglay

Swedish		brännglas (sunglass). (various references)

Turkish		büyüteç (glass, handglass, magnifying glass). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: BURNING GLASS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-g-g-i-l-n-n-r-s-s-u"
	-3 letters: bunglings, nurslings, singulars.
	-4 letters: anglings, assuring, blunging, brassing, bungling, burgling, burnings, garbling, glassing, gnarling, grassing, insulars, linsangs, nursings, nursling, rassling, singular, slanging, snarling, subrings, sugaring, unslings, unsnarls.
	-5 letters: ablings, abusing, angling, argling, arguing, banging, barging, blaring, bluings, brasils, bugling, bulging, bunging, burials, burling, burning, busings, bussing, gabling, garbing, gassing, gingals, glaring, guanins, insular.
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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Fiction

5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography

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