a spring or other elastic device, especially one attached to a control to facilitate its manipulation.

a strong elastic cord, usually with a hook at each end, used as a shock-absorbing device or to bind packages together, as on a dolly or handcart.

an act of derring-do in which a person jumps from a high platform, such as a bridge, attached (usually by the legs) to a bungee cord, which is set to a length that will halt the drop before the person reaches the surface of the earth or the water.

See Bung, n., 2.

A clumsy or awkward performance; a botch; a gross blunder.

performed poorly or inadequately; as, a bungled job; the Watergate scandal started with a bungled burglary.

A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles.

awkward to move or use especially because of shape; as, a load of bunglesome paraphernalia.

Unskillful; awkward; clumsy; as, a bungling workman.

Clumsily; awkwardly.

A kind of canoe used in Central and South America; also, a kind of boat used in the Southern United States.

Same as Bunyon.

An enlargement and inflammation of a small membranous sac (one of the burs/ muscos/), usually occurring on the first joint of the great toe.

an Australian timber tree (Flindersia schottiana) whose bark yields a poison.

To go to bed in a bunk; -- sometimes with in.

A type of multiple bed in which the individual beds are arranged one above the other. It is used to save space in crowded quarters.

To drive (the ball) into a bunker.

someone who occupies the same sleeping quarters as oneself.

To swindle by a bunko game or scheme; to cheat or victimize in any similar way, as by a confidence game, passing a bad check, etc.

See Buncombe.

Speech-making for the gratification of constituents, or to gain public applause; flattering talk for a selfish purpose; anything said for mere show.

See Bun.

any of a variety of slightly sweetened or plain raised cakes or bisquits, often having a glazing of sugar and milk on the top crust; as, a hot cross bun.

See Bunyon.

A pet name for a rabbit or a squirrel.

A division of the herbivorous mammals including the hogs and hippopotami; -- so called because the teeth are tuberculated.

the buttocks.

same as bunsen burner; a gas burner used in laboratories; has an air valve to regulate the mixture of gas and air.

To strike or push with the horns or head; to butt; as, the ram bunted the boy.

a fine white Philippine fiber from the stalks of unopened leaves of talipot palms; used in making hats.

A woman who picks up rags in the streets; hence, a low, vulgar woman.

A thin woolen stuff, used chiefly for flags, colors, and ships' signals.

A bird of the genus Emberiza, or of an allied genus, related to the finches and sparrows (family Fringillid/).

One of the ropes toggled to the footrope of a sail, used to haul up to the yard the body of the sail when taking it in.

To float; to rise like a buoy.

Buoys, taken collectively; a series of buoys, as for the guidance of vessels into or out of port; the providing of buoys.

Buoyancy.

The property of floating on the surface of a liquid, or in a fluid, as in the atmosphere; specific lightness, which is inversely as the weight compared with that of an equal volume of water.

Having the quality of rising or floating in a fluid; tending to rise or float; as, iron is buoyant in mercury.

One of a tribe of beetles, of the genus Buprestis and allied genera, usually with brilliant metallic colors. The larv/ are usually borers in timber, or beneath bark, and are often very destructive to trees.

a light gabardine raincoat of the type made by Burberry's of London.

to to make a burbling sound; -- used of water, especially brooks.

uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm; as, a novel told in burbly panting tones.

A birdbolt.

A fresh-water fish of the genus Lota, having on the nose two very small barbels, and a larger one on the chin.

A sort of grape.

A club.

bearing a heavy load; as, a hiker burdened with a heavy backpack.

One who loads; an oppressor.

Burdensome.

Grievous to be borne; causing uneasiness or fatigue; oppressive.

A genus of coarse biennial herbs (Lappa), bearing small burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or wool of animals.

A pilgrim's staff.

Originally, a desk or writing table with drawers for papers.

A system of carrying on the business of government by means of departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chief, in contradiction to a system in which the officers of government have an associated authority and responsibility; also, government conducted on this system.

An official of a bureau; esp. an official confirmed in a narrow and arbitrary routine.

the formal and often obscure style of writing characteristic of some government officials; officialese; -- it is characterized by euphemisms, circumlocutions, vague abstractions, and circumlocutions.

Of, relating to, or resembling, a bureaucracy.

nonelective government officials; same as bureaucracy.

An advocate for, or supporter of, bureaucracy.

An apparatus for delivering measured quantities of liquid or for measuring the quantity of liquid or gas received or discharged. It consists essentially of a graduated glass tube, usually furnished with a small aperture and stopcock.

A fortified town.

A tenure by which houses or lands are held of the king or other lord of a borough or city; at a certain yearly rent, or by services relating to trade or handicraft.

A small marine fish; -- also called cunner.

See Bergamot.

See Burgonet.

A kind of small coat.

A burgess; a citizen. See 2d Bourgeois.

To bud. See Bourgeon.

An inhabitant of a borough or walled town, or one who possesses a tenement therein; a citizen or freeman of a borough.

The state of privilege of a burgess.

Originally, one appointed to the command of a burg (fortress or castle); but the title afterward became hereditary, with a domain attached.

A borough or incorporated town, especially, one in Scotland. See Borough.

Belonging to a burgh.

A contribution toward the building or repairing of castles or walls for the defense of a city or town.

The offense of violating the pledge given by every inhabitant of a tithing to keep the peace; breach of the peace.

A freeman of a burgh or borough, entitled to enjoy the privileges of the place; any inhabitant of a borough.

See Burgomaster.

The state or privileges of a burgher.

A burgomaster.

A court or meeting of a burgh or borough; a borough court held three times yearly.

One guilty of the crime of burglary.

A burglar.

Pertaining to burglary; constituting the crime of burglary.

With an intent to commit burglary; in the manner of a burglar.

secure against burglary.

Breaking and entering the dwelling house of another, in the nighttime, with intent to commit a felony therein, whether the felonious purpose be accomplished or not.

to commit a burglary; to enter and rob a dwelling.

A chief magistrate of a municipal town in Holland, Flanders, and Germany, corresponding to mayor in England and the United States; a burghmaster.

A kind of helmet.

A kind of oatmeal pudding, or thick gruel, used by seamen.

Grass of the genus Cenchrus, growing in sand, and having burs for fruit.

See Burggrave.

An old province of France (in the eastern central part).

See Burg.

a natural family of large wading birds resembling the plovers; the stone curlews.

type genus of the Burhinidae, comprising the stone curlews.

A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture.

covered from view; as, her face buried (or hidden) in her hands; buried in the smoke of many rifles.

One who, or that which, buries.

The cutting tool of an engraver on metal, used in line engraving. It is made of tempered steel, one end being ground off obliquely so as to produce a sharp point, and the other end inserted in a handle; a graver; also, the similarly shaped tool used by workers in marble.

One who works with the burin.

The red-breasted house sparrow of California (Carpodacus frontalis); -- called also crimson-fronted bullfinch.

To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection.

The practice of killing persons for the purpose of selling their bodies for dissection.

A knot or lump in thread or cloth.

A coarse fabric, made of jute or hemp, used for bagging; also, a finer variety of similar material, used for curtains, etc.

having an irregular pattern from the grain of a tree burl{2}, or one resembling such a pattern, in contrast to the regular wood grain consisting of parallel or concentric lines; -- of wood.

One who burls or dresses cloth.

To employ burlesque.

One who burlesques.

A comic operetta; a music farce.

Quality of being burly.

Having a large, strong, or gross body; stout; lusty; -- now used chiefly of human beings, but formerly of animals, in the sense of stately or beautiful, and of inanimate things that were huge and bulky.

A member of the Burman family, one of the four great families Burma; also, sometimes, any inhabitant of Burma; a Burmese. Of or pertaining to the Burmans or to Burmah.

the type genus of the Burmanniaceae; slender herbs of warm regions with leaves resembling scales and flowers with a 3-angled or 3-winged perianth.

a natural family of chiefly tropical herbs with basal or bractlike leaves and small flowers.

Of or pertaining to Burmah, or its inhabitants. A native or the natives of Burma (Myanmar). Also (sing.), the language of the Burmans.

a language spoken in Northern Burma and Yunnan.

A small stream.