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.
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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).
Consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried, as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun.
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.
A thicket; a cluster of bushes.
One who roams, or hides, among the bushes; especially, in Australia, an escaped criminal living in the bush.
to live in the bush as a fugitive or as a guerilla.
One accustomed to beat about, or travel through, bushes.
Traveling, or working a way, through bushes; pulling by the bushes, as in hauling a boat along the bushy margin of a stream.
Thick and spreading, like a bush.
In a busy manner.
That which busies one, or that which engages the time, attention, or labor of any one, as his principal concern or interest, whether for a longer or shorter time; constant employment; regular occupation; as, the business of life; business before pleasure.
In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods; practical and efficient.
a person employed in a business at a managerial level, especially an executive or proprietor.
a female businessman.
To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.
Wearing a busk.
a person who entertains people for money in public places (as by singing or dancing).
A small bush; also, a sprig or bouquet.
A strong, protecting covering for the foot, coming some distance up the leg.
Wearing buskins.
See Bosky, and 1st Bush, n.
A small strong vessel with two masts and two cabins; -- used in the herring fishery.
To break or burst.
a serious quarrel (especially one that ends a friendship).
A bird of the genus Otis.
Inoperable due to damage; broken; -- of a machine; as, the coke machine is busted.
Something huge; a roistering blade; also, a spree.
A kind of pad or cushion worn on the back below the waist, by women, to give fullness to the skirts; -- called also bishop, and tournure.
An active, stirring person.
Agitated; noisy; tumultuous; characterized by confused activity; as, a bustling crowd.
A bust; a statue.
To make or keep busy; to employ; to engage or keep engaged; to occupy; as, to busy one's self with books.
intruding unasked into the affairs of others.
One who officiously concerns himself with the affairs of others; a meddling person.
the state of being or appearing to be actively engaged in an activity; as, they manifested all the busyness of a pack of beavers.
active work of little value, performed merely to occupy time, avoid boredom, or to look busy; as, while he was waiting he filled the days with busywork.
See Butt, v., and Abut, v.
A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
The common European starfish (Asterias rubens).
a white crystalline ester (C18H30N2O2) that is applied to mucous membranes as a topical anesthetic. Chemically it is 3-(di-n-butylamino)-1-propanol 4-aminobenzoate (H2N.C6H4.CO.O.(CH2)3N(C4H9)2). It is usually used as the sulfate salt.
a gaseous hydrocarbon C4H6; -- it is used as a monomer unit in making synthetic rubbers.
An inflammable gaseous saturated hydrocarbon, C4H10, of the marsh gas, or paraffin, series.
a flammable alcohol (C4H9.OH) derived from butane and used as a solvent.
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