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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Būr'geon, v. n. p. 175To bud. See BOURGEON.Būr'gees, n. p. 175An inhabitant of a borough or walled town, or one who possesses a tenement therein; a citizen or freeman of a borough. Blackstone. “A burgess of a borough corresponds with a citizen of a city.”…Būr'gess-shīp, n. p. 175The state or privilege of a burgess. South.Būrg'grāve, n. p. 175(Germany.) Originally, one appointed to the command of a burg; but the title afterward became hereditary, with a domain attached.Būrgh, n. p. 175See BURG and BOROUGH.Būrgh'al, a. p. 175Belonging to a burgh.Būrgh'-bōte, n. p. 175(Old Law.) A contribution toward the building or repairing of castles, or walls, for the defense of a city or town.Būrgh'-brēch, n. p. 175(A-S. Law.) The offense of violating the pledge given by every inhabitant of a tithing to keep the peace; breach of the peace. Burrill.Būrgh'er, n. p. 175An inhabitant of a burgh or borough, who enjoys the privileges of the borough of which he is a freeman. 2. (Eccl. Hist.) A member of that party, among the Scotch seceders, which asserted the…Būrgh'er-mās'ter, n. p. 175See BURGOMASTER.Būrgh'er-ship, n. p. 175The state or privilege of a burgher.Būrgh'-hōld'er, n. p. 175See BORS-HOLDER.Būrgh'-mās'ter, n. p. 175A burgomaster. 2. An officer in the tin mines who directs and lays out the meers for the workmen;—called also bailiff, and bar-master. [Eng.]Būrgh'-mōte, n. p. 175The court or meeting of a burgh or borough. Burrill.Būrg'lar, n. p. 175(Law.) One guilty of the crime of burglary; one who breaks and enters a mansion or dwelling-house, in the night-time, with intent to commit a felony.Bûrg'lar-er, n. p. 176A burglar. [Obs.] Sir William Brain was sent to the tower only for procuring the pope's bull against certain burglarers that robbed his own house. State Trials, 1646.Bur-glā'ri-oūs, a. p. 176Pertaining to burglary; constituting the crime of burglary. To come down a chimney is held a burglarious entry. Blackstone.Bur-glā'ri-oûs-ly, adv. p. 176With an intent to commit burglary; in the manner of a burglar. Blackstone.Bûrg'la-ry, n. p. 176(Law.) The breaking and entering the dwelling-house of another, in the night-time, with intent to commit a felony therein, whether the felonious purpose be accomplished or not. Wharton. Burrill.…Bŭrg'o-mâs'ter, n. p. 176A burgh-master; a chief magistrate of a municipal town in Holland, Flanders, and Germany, corresponding to mayor in England and the United States. 2. (Ornith.) An aquatic bird, the glaucous gull…Bûr'go-nĕt, n. p. 176See BURGANET.Bûr'gout or Bûr'go͞o, n. p. 176A kind of oat-meal pudding, or thick gruel, used by seamen.Bûr'grȧss, n. p. 176(Bot.) Grass of the genus Cenchrus.Bûr'grāve, n. p. 176See BURGGRAVE.Bûr'gun-dy, n. p. 176A superior kind of wine;—so called from Burgundy, in France, where it is made.Bûr'gun-dy-pitch, n. p. 176Turpentine from which the essential oil has been distilled off;—so called from Burgundy, in France, where it was first prepared from the Pinus abies, or spruce fir; also, pitch produced from other…Bûrh, n. p. 176A city; castle; house; tower. 2. A defense; protection;—used in composition; as, Cwenburh (queen-burh), a woman ready to assist: Cuthburh, eminent for assistances. Gibson.Bu'ri-al, n. p. 176The act of burying; specifically, depositing a dead body in the earth, in a tomb or vault, or in the water, usually with the attendant ceremonies; funeral solemnity; sepulture; interment. “Now to…Bu'ri-er, n. p. 176One who buries a deceased person; that which buries or covers. And darkness be the barier of the dead. Shak.Bū'rin, n. p. 176An engraver's tool, of tempered steel, with one end ground off obliquely so as to produce a sharp cutting point, and the other end inserted in a handle; a graver. 2. The manner or style of execution…Bûrke, v. t. p. 176To murder, particularly by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body for dissection. [Rare.] 2. To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to smother; to…Bûrk'er, n. p. 176One who is guilty of burking. [Rare.]Bûrk'ism, n. p. 176The practice of killing persons for the purpose of selling their bodies for dissection.Bûrl, v. t. p. 176(Manuf.) To dress, as cloth, by fulling. Bailey. 2. To pick knots, loose threads, &c., from, as in finishing cloth.Bûrl, n. p. 176A knot or lump in thread or cloth.Bûr'laçe, n. p. 176A sort of grape. Johnson.Būr'ler, n. p. 176A dresser of cloth; one who picks off knots, &c., in finishing cloth.Bur-lĕsque', a. p. 176Tending to excite laughter by ludicrous images, or by a contrast between the subject and the manner of treating it, as when a trifling subject is treated with gravity; jocular; ironical. It is a…Bur-lĕsque' (-lĕsk'), n. p. 176Ludicrous representation; exaggerated parody; satire. Burlesque is therefore of two kinds: the first represents mean persons in the accouterments of heroes, the other describes great persons acting…Bur-lĕsque', v. t. p. 176To turn into ridicule, or to make ludicrous by representation. They burlesqued the prophet Jeremiah's words, and turned the expression he used into ridicule. Stillingfleet.Bur-lĕsque'r, n. p. 176One who burlesques or turns to ridicule.Bur-lĕt'tă, n. p. 176(Mus.) A comic opera; a musical farce.Bûr'li-ness, n. p. 176State or quality of being burly.Bûr'l'ing-ī'ron, n. p. 176An instrument similar to large tweezers, used in burling cloth. Halliwell.Bûr'ly, a. p. 176Of great bulk, especially with the idea of strength and coarseness of appearance; full in figure; stout; lusty. In his latter days, with over-liberal diet, [he was] somewhat corpulent and burly. Sir…Bûr'-mâr'i-gōld, n. p. 176(Bot.) Beggar-tick, a plant of the genus Bidens.Bûrn, v. t. p. 176To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire;—frequently with up; as, to burn up wood. We'll burn his body in the holy place. Shak. 2. To injure by fire or heat; to change…Bŭrn, v. i. p. 176To be on fire; to flame. “The mount burned with fire.” Deut. ix. 15. 2. To suffer from, or be injured by, an excess of heat. Your meat doth burn, quoth I. Shak. 3. To have the appearance of flame or…Būrn, n. p. 176A hurt or injury of any thing caused by the action of fire. 2. The operation of burning or baking, as in brick-making; as, they have a good burn.Bŭrn, n. p. 176A small stream; a brook. [Scot.]Būrn'a-ble, a. p. 176Capable of being burnt; combustible. [Rare.] Cotgrave.Bûrn'er, n. p. 176A person who burns or sets fire to any thing. 2. An appendage to a lamp designed to promote combustion. 3. The jet-piece of a gas-fixture at which combustion takes place.Būr'net, n. p. 176(Bot.) A plant, the Poterium sanguisorba, common or garden burnet. ☞ The Sanguisorba officinalis is the wild burnet or great burnet; S. Canadensis, the Canadian burnet.Būr'net-săx'i-frāge, n. p. 176(Bot.) A plant of the genus Pimpinella, especially the Pimpinella saxifraga.Būr'nett-īze, v. t. p. 176(Manuf.) To preserve timber by a solution of chloride of zinc.Būr'nett-iz'ing, n. p. 176The process of preserving timber by a solution of chloride of zinc; — so named from the inventor.Būrn'ing, n. p. 176The act of burning or state of being burned; combustion; fire; inflammation. Syn.—Combustion; fire; conflagration; flame; blaze; inflammation.Būrn'ing, a. p. 176Much heated; very hot; scorching. “The burning plains of India.” S. S. Smith. 2. Powerful; vehement. “A burning shame.” Shak. “A burning scent.” Dryden. Syn.—Ardent; scorching; fiery; hot.Būrn'ing-bush, n. p. 176(Bot.) An ornamental shrub (Euonymus atropurpureus), bearing a crimson berry. Gray.Bŭrn'ing-glāss, n. p. 176A convex lens of considerable size, used for producing an intense heat by converging the sun's rays to a focus.