Burning, a mode of capital punishment formerly common in civilized countries.
In metal working, joining metals by melting their adjacent edges, or heating their adjacent edges and running into the intermediate space some molten metal of the same kind. In ceramics, the final heating of clay ware, which changes is from the dried or biscuited condition to the perfect ware. The glaze or enamel is applied to the baked ware, and is vitrified in the burning.
Entry from Everybody's Cyclopedia, 1912.