Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 94
Buprestidan (n.) One of a tribe of beetles, of the genus Buprestis and allied genera, usually with brilliant metallic colors. The larvae are usually borers in timber, or beneath bark, and are often very destructive to trees.
Buriganga River (n.) 布里甘加河（英語：Buriganga River）是流經孟加拉國首都達卡市西南郊區的一條河流 [2]。它的平均深度為7.6米（25英尺），最大深度為18米（58英尺） The Buriganga River flows past the southwest outskirts of Dhaka city, the capital of Bangladesh. Its average depth is 7.6 metres (25 ft) and its maximum depth is 18 metres (58 ft).
Bur (n.) Alt. of Burr
Burr (n.) (Bot.) 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. Also, any weed which bears burs.
Amongst rude burs and thistles. -- Milton.
Bur and brake and brier. -- Tennyson.
Burr (n.) The thin ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal. See Burr, n., 2.
Burr (n.) A ring of iron on a lance or spear. See Burr, n., 4.
Burr (n.) The lobe of the ear. See Burr, n., 5.
Burr (n.) The sweetbread.
Burr (n.) A clinker; a partially vitrified brick.
Burr (n.) (Mech.) A small circular saw.
Burr (n.) (Mech.) A triangular chisel.
Burr (n.) (Mech.) A drill with a serrated head larger than the shank; -- used by dentists.
Burr (n.) (Zool.) The round knob of an antler next to a deer's head. [Commonly written burr.]
Bur oak (Bot.), A useful and ornamental species of oak ({Quercus macrocarpa) with ovoid acorns inclosed in deep cups imbricated with pointed scales. It grows in the Middle and Western United States, and its wood is tough, close-grained, and durable.
Bur reed (Bot.), A plant of the genus Sparganium, having long ribbonlike leaves.
Burbolt (n.) A birdbolt.
Burbot (n.) A fresh-water fish of the genus Lota, having on the nose two very small barbels, and a larger one on the chin.
Burdelais (n.) A sort of grape.
Burden (n.) That which is borne or carried; a load.
Burden (n.) That which is borne with labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
Burden (n.) The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry; as, a ship of a hundred tons burden.
Burden (n.) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
Burden (n.) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
Burden (n.) A fixed quantity of certain commodities; as, a burden of gad steel, 120 pounds.
Burden (n.) A birth.
Burdened (imp. & p. p.) of Burden
Burdening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Burden
Burden (v. t.) To encumber with weight (literal or figurative); to lay a heavy load upon; to load.
Burden (v. t.) To oppress with anything grievous or trying; to overload; as, to burden a nation with taxes.
Burden (v. t.) To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).
Burden (n.) The verse repeated in a song, or the return of the theme at the end of each stanza; the chorus; refrain. Hence: That which is often repeated or which is dwelt upon; the main topic; as, the burden of a prayer.
Burden (n.) The drone of a bagpipe.
Burden (n.) A club.
Burdener (n.) One who loads; an oppressor.
Burdenous (a.) Burdensome.
Burdensome (a.) Grievous to be borne; causing uneasiness or fatigue; oppressive.
Burdock (n.) A genus of coarse biennial herbs (Lappa), bearing small burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or wool of animals.
Burdon (n.) A pilgrim's staff.
Bureaus (n. pl. ) of Bureau
Bureaux (n. pl. ) of Bureau
Bureau (n.) Originally, a desk or writing table with drawers for papers. -- Swift.
Bureau (n.) The place where such a bureau is used; an office where business requiring writing is transacted.
Bureau (n.) Hence: A department of public business requiring a force of clerks; the body of officials in a department who labor under the direction of a chief.
Note: On the continent of Europe, the highest departments, in most countries, have the name of bureaux; as, the Bureau of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. In England and America, the term is confined to inferior and subordinate departments; as, the "Pension Bureau," a subdepartment of the Department of the Interior. [Obs.]
In Spanish, bureo denotes a court of justice for the trial of persons belonging to the king's household.
Bureau (n.) A chest of drawers for clothes, especially when made as an ornamental piece of furniture. [U. S.]
{Bureau system}. See {Bureaucracy}.
{Bureau Veritas}, An institution, in the interest of maritime underwriters, for the survey and rating of vessels all over the world. It was founded in Belgium in 1828, removed to Paris in 1830, and re["e]stablished in Brussels in 1870.
Bureau (n.) An administrative unit of government; "the Central Intelligence Agency"; "the Census Bureau"; "Office of Management and Budget"; "Tennessee Valley Authority" [syn: {agency}, {federal agency}, {government agency}, {bureau}, {office}, {authority}].
Bureau (n.) Furniture with drawers for keeping clothes [syn: {chest of drawers}, {chest}, {bureau}, {dresser}].
Bureau (n.), A French word, which literally means a large writing table. It is used figuratively for the place where business is transacted: it has been borrowed by us, and used in nearly the same sense; as, the bureau of the secretary of state. Vide Merl. Repert. h. t.
Bureau (n.) [ C ] (pl. bureaux US usually bureaus) (Organization) （搜集或提供資訊的）辦事處，辦公室，機構 An organization or a business that collects or provides information.
// Her disappearance was reported to the police department's Missing Persons Bureau.
Bureau (n.) [ C ] (pl. bureaux US usually bureaus) (Organization) (Mainly US) （政府部門的）局，處，科 A government organization.
// The Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Bureau (n.) [ C ] (Furniture) (UK) 書桌 A piece of furniture with a lid that opens to form a writing surface.
Bureau (n.) [ C ] (Furniture) (US) 五斗櫥；（有抽屜的）衣櫃，衣櫥 A chest of drawers.
Bureaucracy (n.) 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.
Bureaucracy (n.) Government officials, collectively.
Bureaucracy (n.) [ U or C ] (Mainly disapproving) (C2) 官僚作風；官僚主義；官僚體制 A system for controlling or managing a country, company, or organization that is operated by a large number of officials employed to follow rules carefully.
// I had to deal with the university's bureaucracy when I was applying for financial aid.
Bureaucrat (n.) An official of a bureau; esp. an official confirmed in a narrow and arbitrary routine.
Bureaucratic (a.) Alt. of Bureaucratical
Bureaucratical (a.) Of, relating to, or resembling, a bureaucracy.
Bureaucratist (n.) An advocate for , or supporter of, bureaucracy.
Burel (n. & a.) Same as Borrel.
Burette (n.) 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.
Bur fish () A spinose, plectognath fish of the Allantic coast of the United States (esp. Chilo mycterus geometricus) having the power of distending its body with water or air, so as to resemble a chestnut bur; -- called also ball fish, balloon fish, and swellfish.
Burg (n.) A fortified town.
Burg (n.) A borough.
Burgage (n.) 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.
Burgall (n.) A small marine fish; -- also called cunner.
Burgamot (n.) See Bergamot.
Burganet (n.) See Burgonet.
Burgee (n.) A kind of small coat.
Burgee (n.) A swallow-tailed flag; a distinguishing pennant, used by cutters, yachts, and merchant vessels.
Burgeois (n.) See 1st Bourgeois.
Burgeois (n.) A burgess; a citizen. See 2d Bourgeois.
Burgeon (v. i.) 萌芽；急速成長 To bud. See {Bourgeon}.
Burgeon (v.) Grow and flourish; "The burgeoning administration"; "The burgeoning population".
Burgess (n.) An inhabitant of a borough or walled town, or one who possesses a tenement therein; a citizen or freeman of a borough.
Burgess (n.) One who represents a borough in Parliament.
Burgess (n.) A magistrate of a borough.
Burgess (n.) An inhabitant of a Scotch burgh qualified to vote for municipal officers.
Burgess-ship (n.) The state of privilege of a burgess.
Burggrave (n.) Originally, one appointed to the command of a burg (fortress or castle); but the title afterward became hereditary, with a domain attached.
Burgh (n.) A borough or incorporated town, especially, one in Scotland. See Borough.
Burghal (a.) Belonging to a burgh.
Burghbote (n.) A contribution toward the building or repairing of castles or walls for the defense of a city or town.
Burghbrech (n.) The offense of violating the pledge given by every inhabitant of a tithing to keep the peace; breach of the peace.
Burgher (n.) A freeman of a burgh or borough, entitled to enjoy the privileges of the place; any inhabitant of a borough.
Burgher (n.) A member of that party, among the Scotch seceders, which asserted the lawfulness of the burgess oath (in which burgesses profess "the true religion professed within the realm"), the opposite party being called antiburghers.
Burghermaster (n.) See Burgomaster.
Burghership (n.) The state or privileges of a burgher.
Burghmaster (n.) A burgomaster.
Burghmaster (n.) An officer who directs and lays out the meres or boundaries for the workmen; -- called also bailiff, and barmaster.
Burghmote (n.) A court or meeting of a burgh or borough; a borough court held three times yearly.
Burglar (n.) One guilty of the crime of burglary.
Burglar (n.) [ C ] B2入室竊賊 A person who illegally enters buildings and steals things.
// It was brave of you to chase after the burglar.
// No household security devices will protect you against the determined burglar.
// The burglar had left his fingerprints all over the window.
// The burglars disabled the alarm and used a glass cutter to break into the house.
// The burglars have been arrested but the jewellery is still missing.
Burglar alarm (n.) [ C ] 防盜警報器 A device on a building that gives a warning such as making a loud noise or flashing a light, or tells the police, if someone tries to enter the building illegally.
Burglarer (n.) A burglar.
Burglarious (a.) Pertaining to burglary; constituting the crime of burglary.
Burglariously (adv.) With an intent to commit burglary; in the manner of a burglar.
Burglaries (n. pl. ) of Burglary
Burglary (n.) 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.
Burgomaster (n.) A chief magistrate of a municipal town in Holland, Flanders, and Germany, corresponding to mayor in England and the United States; a burghmaster.
Burgomaster (n.) An aquatic bird, the glaucous gull (Larus glaucus), common in arctic regions.
Burgonet (n.) A kind of helmet.
Burgoo (n.) A kind of oatmeal pudding, or thick gruel, used by seamen.
Burgrass (n.) Grass of the genus Cenchrus, growing in sand, and having burs for fruit.
Burgrave (n.) See Burggrave.
Burgundy (n.) An old province of France (in the eastern central part).
Burgundy (n.) A richly flavored wine, mostly red, made in Burgundy, France.
Burh (n.) See Burg.
Burhel (n.) Alt. of Burrhel
Burrhel (n.) The wild Himalayan, or blue, sheep (Ovis burrhel).
Burial (n.) 埋葬；葬禮 [U] [C]；墓地；（考古學者所指的）墓葬 [C] A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture. [Obs.]
The erthe schook, and stoones weren cloven, and biriels weren opened. -- Wycliff [Matt. xxvii. 51, 52].
Burial (n.) The act of burying; depositing a dead body in the earth, in a tomb or vault, or in the water, usually with attendant ceremonies; sepulture; interment. "To give a public burial." -- Shak.
Now to glorious burial slowly borne. -- Tennyson.
Burial case, A form of coffin, usually of iron, made to close air-tight, for the preservation of a dead body.
Burial ground, A piece of ground selected and set apart for a place of burials, and consecrated to such use by religious ceremonies.
Burial place, Any place where burials are made.
Burial service. () The religious service performed at the interment of the dead; a funeral service.
Burial service. () That portion of a liturgy which is read at an interment; as, the English burial service.
Syn: Sepulture; interment; inhumation.
Burial (n.) The ritual placing of a corpse in a grave [syn: burial, entombment, inhumation, interment, sepulture].
Burial (n.) Concealing something under the ground [syn: burying, burial].
Burial, () The first burial we have an account of is that of Sarah (Gen. 23). The first commercial transaction recorded is that of the purchase of a burial-place, for which Abraham weighed to Ephron "four hundred shekels of silver current money with the merchants." Thus the patriarch became the owner of a part of the land of Canaan, the only part he ever possessed. When he himself died, "his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah," beside Sarah his wife (Gen. 25:9).
Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, was buried under Allon-bachuth, "the oak of weeping" (Gen. 35:8), near to Bethel. Rachel died, and was buried near Ephrath; "and Jacob set a pillar upon her grave" (16-20). Isaac was buried at Hebron, where he had died (27, 29). Jacob, when charging his sons to bury him in the cave of Machpelah, said, "There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah" (49:31). In compliance with the oath which he made him swear unto him (47:29-31), Joseph, assisted by his brethren, buried Jacob in the cave of Machpelah (50:2, 13). At the Exodus, Moses "took the bones of Joseph with him," and they were buried in the "parcel of ground" which Jacob had bought of the sons of Hamor (Josh. 24:32), which became Joseph's inheritance (Gen. 48:22; 1 Chr. 5:1; John 4:5). Two burials are mentioned as having taken place in the wilderness. That of Miriam (Num. 20:1), and that of Moses, "in the land of Moab" (Deut. 34:5, 6, 8). There is no account of the actual burial of Aaron, which probably, however, took place on the summit of Mount Hor (Num. 20:28, 29).
Joshua was buried "in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-serah" (Josh. 24: 30).
In Job we find a reference to burying-places, which were probably the Pyramids (3:14, 15). The Hebrew word for "waste places" here resembles in sound the Egyptian word for "pyramids."
Samuel, like Moses, was honoured with a national burial (1 Sam. 25:1). Joab (1 Kings 2:34) "was buried in his own house in the wilderness."
In connection with the burial of Saul and his three sons we meet for the first time with the practice of burning the dead (1 Sam. 31:11-13). The same practice is again referred to by Amos (6:10).
Absalom was buried "in the wood" where he was slain (2 Sam. 18:17, 18). The raising of the heap of stones over his grave was intended to mark abhorrence of the person buried (comp. Josh. 7:26 and 8:29). There was no fixed royal burying-place for the Hebrew kings. We find several royal burials taking place, however, "in the city of David" (1 Kings 2:10; 11:43; 15:8; 2 Kings 14:19, 20; 15:38; 1 Kings 14:31; 22:50; 2 Chr. 21:19, 20; 2 Chr. 24:25, etc.). Hezekiah was buried in the mount of the sepulchres of the sons of David; "and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death" (2 Chr. 32:33).
Little is said regarding the burial of the kings of Israel.
Some of them were buried in Samaria, the capital of their kingdom (2 Kings 10:35; 13:9; 14:16).
Our Lord was buried in a new tomb, hewn out of the rock, which Joseph of Arimathea had prepared for himself (Matt. 27:57-60; Mark 15:46; John 19:41, 42).
The grave of Lazarus was "a cave, and a stone lay on it" (John 11:38). Graves were frequently either natural caverns or artificial excavations formed in the sides of rocks (Gen. 23:9; Matt. 27:60); and coffins were seldom used, unless when the body was brought from a distance.
BURIAL. () The act of interring the dead.
BURIAL. () No burial is lawful unless made in conformity with the local regulations; an when a dead body has been found, it cannot be lawfully buried until the coroner has holden an inquest over it. In England. it is the practice for coroners to issue warrants to bury, after a view. 2 Umf. Lex. Coron. 497, 498.
Burial (n.) The act of burying; esp., the burying of a dead body; interment.
Burial (a.) 埋葬的；葬禮的 [Z] [B] Of or connected with burial.
Burier (n.) One who, or that which, buries.
Burin (n.) 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.
Burin (n.) The manner or style of execution of an engraver; as, a soft burin; a brilliant burin.