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.

To burn till the fuel is exhausted; as, when the candle burned out the room was totally dark; the firefighters couldn't control the oil tank fire and had to let it burn out by itself.

a high-speed motorcycle race on a public road.

Combustible.

Burnished.

One who, or that which, burns or sets fire to anything.

A genus of perennial herbs (Poterium); especially, Poterium Sanguisorba, the common, or garden, burnet.

To subject (wood, fabrics, etc.) to a process of saturation in a solution of chloride of zinc, to prevent decay; -- a process invented by Sir William Burnett.

A small brook.

The ladybird.

The act of consuming by fire or heat, or of subjecting to the effect of fire or heat; the state of being on fire or excessively heated.

The effect of burnishing; gloss; brightness; luster.

One who burnishes.

A cloaklike garment and hood woven in one piece, worn by Arabs.

A stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).

drained of energy or effectiveness; driven to apathy by overwork or prolonged stress; -- of people.

the amount of fuel used up (as in a nuclear reactor).

to cause to belch; -- used especially of actions parents take to relieve stomach gas in infants; as, mother fed and burped the baby, and put her to bed.

a reflex that expels wind noisily from the stomach through the mouth.

To speak with burr; to make a hoarse or guttural murmur.

Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and burdock; a seed vessel having hooks or prickles. Also, any weed which bears burs.

Same as Borrel.

any of several fishes having rigid flattened spines.

The wild Himalayan, or blue, sheep (Ovis burrhel).

a flour tortilla folded around a filling.

A donkey.

A small weir or dam in a river to direct the stream to gaps where fish traps are placed.

To excavate a hole to lodge in, as in the earth; to lodge in a hole excavated in the earth, as conies or rabbits.

One who, or that which, burrows; an animal that makes a hole under ground and lives in it.

See Buhrstone.

Abounding in burs, or containing burs; resembling burs; as, burry wool.

Any sac or saclike cavity; especially, one of the synovial sacs, or small spaces, often lined with synovial membrane, interposed between tendons and bony prominences.

Of or pertaining to a bursa or to burs/.

A treasurer, or cash keeper; a purser; as, the bursar of a college, or of a monastery.

The office of a bursar.

The treasury of a college or monastery.

A youth; especially, a student in a german university.

In Germany, any of various associations of university students formed (the original one at Jena in 1815) to support liberal ideas, or the organization formed by the affiliation of the local bodies. The organization was suppressed by the government in 1819, but was secretly revived, and is now openly maintained as a social organization, the restrictive laws having been repealed prior to 1849.

A purse; also, a vesicle; a pod; a hull.

a natural family of resinous or aromatic chiefly tropical shrubs or trees.

Bursiform.

Shaped like a purse.

Inflammation of a bursa.

A sudden breaking forth; a violent rending; an explosion; as, a burst of thunder; a burst of applause; a burst of passion; a burst of inspiration.

p. p. of Burst, v. i.

One that bursts.

A plant (Herniaria glabra) supposed to be valuable for the cure of hernia or rupture.

See Birt.

See Burden.

A peculiar tackle, formed of two or more blocks, or pulleys, the weight being suspended to a hook block in the bight of the running part.

a native or inhabitant of Burundi.

of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Burundi; as, the Burundi capital.

a terrestrial Siberian squirrel (Eutamius asiaticus or Eutamius sibiricus).

To cover out of sight, either by heaping something over, or by placing within something, as earth, etc.; to conceal by covering; to hide; as, to bury coals in ashes; to bury the face in the hands.

An omnibus.

an electrical conductor that makes a common connection between several circuits.

A military headdress or cap, used in the British army. It is of fur, with a bag, of the same color as the facings of the regiment, hanging from the top over the right shoulder.

One who searches for ores; a prospector.

To furnish with a bush, or lining; as, to bush a pivot hole.

any of several agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemurlike primates of the genus Galago with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears; -- called also galago.

See Bushman.

antelope with white harnesslike markings and twisted horns.

very tired from exertion.

To mend or repair, as men's garments; to repair garments.

A duty payable on commodities by the bushel.

A tailor's assistant for repairing garments; -- called also busheler.

A small bush.

One accustomed to bushfighting.

Fighting in the bush, or from behind bushes, trees, or thickets.

To dress with bushhammer; as, to bushhammer a block of granite.

The unwritten code of moral principles regulating the actions of the Japanese knighthood, or Samurai; the chivalry of Japan.

The condition or quality of being bushy.

The operation of fitting bushes, or linings, into holes or places where wear is to be received, or friction diminished, as pivot holes, etc.

Free from bushes; bare.

A woodsman; a settler in the bush.