Emily Dickinson Lexicon

COM-BUST'I-BLE-NESS, or COM-BUST-I-BIL'I-TY, n.

1. The quality of taking fire and burning; the quality of a substance which admits the action of fire upon it; capacity of being burnt. – Lavoisier.
2. The quality of throwing out heat and light, in the rapid combination of its substance with another body. – Ure.