▪ I. burned, ppl. a.1
(bɜːnd)
See burnt.
▪ II. † ˈburned, ppl. a.2 Obs.
Forms: 4–6 borned, burned, 5 bourned, boorned.
[f. burn v.2 + -ed.]
Burnished; brilliant; often said of gold or silver. (In later instances perh. confused with prec.)
| c 1384 Chaucer H. Fame 1387 As burned gold hyt shoon to see. c 1386 ― Doctor's T. 38 Phebus deyed hadde hire tresses..I-lyk to þe stremes of his borned hete. c 1430 Lydg. Min. Poems (1840) 65 They have espyed..i-graven, in lettris of bourned gold, Maria. c 1530 Ld. Berners Arth. Lyt. Brit. (1814) 156 And in the toppe therof stode an egle of borned golde. 1577–87 Holinshed Chron. III. 801/1 Their horsses trapped in burned silver. |