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1819, but was secretly revived, and is now openly maintained as a social organization, the restrictive laws having been repealed prior to 1849.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.

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.

a lesbian who is noticeably masculine.

To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs.

any species of shrike of the genus Lanius, so called because they impale their prey on thorns.

The business of a butcher.

Butchery quality.

Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell.

The business of a butcher.

a genus of East Indian trees or shrubs: dhak.

any of three isomeric singly unsaturated hydrocarbons C4H8; all are used in making synthetic rubbers; -- called also butylene.

a genus of broad-winged soaring hawks.

any hawk of the genus Buteo.

An officer in a king's or a nobleman's household, whose principal business it is to take charge of the liquors, plate, etc.; the head servant in a large house.

A duty of two shillings on every tun of wine imported into England by merchant strangers; -- so called because paid to the king's butler for the king.

The office of a butler.

A buttress of an arch; the supporter, or that part which joins it to the upright pier.

The common English flounder.

A detached low mountain, or high rising abruptly from the general level of the surrounding plain; -- applied to peculiar elevations in the Rocky Mountain region.

One who, or that which, butts.

a name given to several perennial plants having showy flowers of two shades of yellow, or of yellow and orange, such as Narcissus incomparabilis in Europe, and the toadflax (Linaria vulgaris) in the United States; the latter is a naturalized weed in North America.

Apt to let things fall, or to let them slip away; not skillful in using the hands; slippery; careless.

tall annual herb or subshrub of tropical Asia having velvety leaves and yellow flowers and yielding a strong fiber; naturalized in SE Europe and US.

A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter.

The buffel duck.

The rice bunting or bobolink; -- so called in the island of Jamaica.