Būr'sar, n.

n. [L. Lat. bursarius, from bursa, byrsa; Fr. boursier. See BURSE.]

1. A treasurer, or cash-keeper; as, the bursar of a college, or of a monastery; a purser.
2. A student to whom a stipend is paid out of a burse or fund appropriated for that purpose, as the exhibitioners sent to the universities in Scotland by each presbytery.