Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 95
Burinist (n.) One who works with the burin.
Burion (n.) The red-breasted
house sparrow of
Burked (imp. & p. p.) of Burke.
Burkina Faso (n.) 布吉納法索（法語：Burkina Faso），西非內陸國家，整個國境皆位於撒哈拉沙漠南緣。舊稱上伏塔（法語：Haute Volta），1984年8月改為現國名。首都瓦加杜古位於國土的正中央，是布吉納法索最大城市，也是文化、經濟中心。布吉納法索為全球識字率最低的國家，只有約兩成三的國民識字。該國是世界上低度開發國家之一。Is a landlocked country in West Africa. It covers an area of around 274,200 square kilometres (105,900 sq mi) and is surrounded by six countries: Mali to the north; Niger to the east; Benin to the southeast; Togo and Ghana to the south; and Ivory Coast to the southwest. Its capital is Ouagadougou. In 2014 its population was estimated at just over 17.3 million.[8] Burkina Faso is a francophone country, with French as an official language of government and business. Formerly called the Republic of Upper Volta (1958–1984), the country was renamed "Burkina Faso" on 4 August 1984 by then-President Thomas Sankara. The citizens of Burkina Faso are known as Burkinabé.
The northwestern part of present-day Burkina Faso was populated by hunter-gatherers from 14000 BC to 5000 BC. From the 3rd to the 13th centuries AD, the Iron Age Bura culture existed in the territory of present-day southeastern Burkina Faso and southwestern Niger. Various ethnic groups of present-day Burkina Faso, such as the Mossi, Fula and Dyula, arrived in successive waves between the 8th and 15th centuries. From the 11th century the Mossi people established several separate kingdoms. In the 1890s, during the European Scramble for Africa, the territory of Burkina Faso was invaded by France, and colonial control was established following a war of conquest between 1896 and 1904. The territory was made part of French West Africa in 1904, and the colony of French Upper Volta was established on 1 March 1919. The colony was named for its location on the upper courses of the Volta River (the Black, Red and White Volta).
The Republic of Upper Volta was established on 11 December 1958 as a self-governing colony within the French Community, and on 5 August 1960 it gained full independence, with Maurice Yaméogo as President. After protests by students and labour unions, Yaméogo was deposed in the 1966 coup d'état led by Sangoulé Lamizana, who became President. His rule coincided with the Sahel drought and famine, and facing problems from the country's traditionally powerful trade unions, he was deposed in the 1980 coup d'état led by Saye Zerbo. Encountering resistance from trade unions again, Zerbo's government was overthrown in the 1982 coup d'état led by Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo. The leader of the leftist faction of Ouédraogo's government, Thomas Sankara, became Prime Minister but was later imprisoned. Efforts to free him led to the popularly-supported 1983 coup d'état, in which he became President. [9] [10] Sankara renamed the country Burkina Faso and launched an ambitious socioeconomic program which included a nationwide literacy campaign, land redistribution to peasants, railway and road construction and the outlawing of female genital mutilation, forced marriages and polygamy. [10] [11] Sankara was overthrown and killed in the 1987 coup d'état led by Blaise Compaoré – deteriorating relations with former coloniser France and its ally the Ivory Coast was the reason given for the coup.
In 1987, Blaise Compaoré became President and, after an alleged 1989 coup attempt, was later elected in 1991 and 1998, elections which were boycotted by the opposition and received a considerably low turnout, as well as in 2005. He remained head of state until he was ousted from power by the popular youth upheaval of 31 October 2014, [12] [13] after which he fled to the Ivory Coast. Michel Kafando subsequently became the transitional President of the country. On 16 September 2015 a military coup d'état against the Kafando government was carried out by the Regiment of Presidential Security, the former presidential guard of Compaoré. [14] On 24 September 2015, after pressure from the African Union, ECOWAS and the armed forces, the military junta agreed to step down, and Michel Kafando was reinstated as Acting President. [15] In the general election held on 29 November 2015, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré won in the first round with 53.5% of the vote [16] and was sworn in as President on 29 December 2015. [17]
Burking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Burke.
Burke (v. t.) 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.
Burke (v. t.) To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary question.
Burkism (n.) The practice of killing persons for the purpose of selling their bodies for dissection.
Burled (imp. & p. p.) of Burl.
Burling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Burl.
Burl (v. t.) To dress or finish up (cloth); to pick knots, burs, loose threads, etc., from, as in finishing cloth.
Burl (n.) A knot or lump in thread or cloth.
Burl (n.) An overgrown knot, or an excrescence, on a tree; also, veneer made from such excrescences.
Burlap (n.) A coarse fabric, made of jute or hemp, used for bagging; also, a finer variety of similar material, used for curtains, etc. [Written also burlaps.]
Burlap (n.) Coarse jute fabric [syn: gunny].
Burler (n.) One who burls or dresses cloth.
Burlesque (n.) Ludicrous representation; exaggerated parody; grotesque satire.
Burlesque is therefore of two kinds; the first represents mean persons in the accouterments of heroes, the other describes great persons acting and speaking like the basest among the people. -- Addison.
Burlesque (n.) An ironical or satirical composition intended to excite laughter, or to ridicule anything.
The dull burlesque appeared with impudence, And pleased by novelty in spite of sense. -- Dryden.
Burlesque (n.) A ludicrous imitation; a caricature; a travesty; a gross perversion.
Who is it that admires, and from the heart is attached to, national representative assemblies, but must turn with horror and disgust from such a profane burlesque and abominable perversion of that sacred institute? -- Burke.
Syn: -- Mockery; farce; travesty; mimicry.
Burlesque (a.) Tending to excite laughter or contempt by extravagant images, or by a contrast between the subject and the manner of treating it, as when a trifling subject is treated with mock gravity; jocular; ironical.
It is a dispute among the critics, whether burlesque poetry runs best in heroic verse, like that of the Dispensary, or in doggerel, like that of Hudibras. -- Addison.
Burlesqued (imp. & p. p.) of Burlesque.
Burlesquing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Burlesque.
Burlesque (v. t.) To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation in action or in language.
They burlesqued the prophet Jeremiah's words, and turned the expression he used into ridicule. -- Stillingfleet.
Burlesque (v. i.) To employ burlesque.
Burlesque (a.) Relating to or characteristic of a burlesque; "burlesque theater."
Burlesque (n.) A theatrical entertainment of broad and earthy humor; consists of comic skits and short turns (and sometimes striptease).
Burlesque (n.) A composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way [syn: parody, lampoon, spoof, sendup, mockery, takeoff, travesty, charade, pasquinade, put-on].
Burlesque (v.) Make a parody of; "The students spoofed the teachers" [syn: spoof, parody].
Burlesquer (n.) One who burlesques.
Burletta (n.) (Mus.) A comic operetta; a music farce.
Burliness (n.) Quality of being burly.
Burly (a.) 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. “Burly sacks.”
In his latter days, with overliberal diet, [he was] somewhat corpulent and burly. -- Sir T. More.
Burly and big, and studious of his ease. -- Cowper.
Burly (a.) Coarse and rough; boisterous.
It was the orator's own burly way of nonsense. -- Cowley.
Burly (a.) Muscular and heavily built; "a beefy wrestler"; "had a tall burly frame"; "clothing sizes for husky boys"; "a strapping boy of eighteen"; "`buirdly' is a Scottish term" [syn: beefy, husky, strapping, buirdly] [also: burliest, burlier].
Burma (n.) A mountainous republic in southeastern Asia on the Bay of Bengal; "much opium is grown in Myanmar" [syn: Myanmar, Union of Burma].
Burmans (n. pl. ) of Burman.
Burman (n.) (Ethnol.) A member of the Burman family, one of the four great families Burmah; also, sometimes, any inhabitant of Burmah; a Burmese.
Burman (a.) Of or pertaining to the Burmans or to Burmah.
Note: Burma is now (1998) named Myanmar.
Compare: Myanmar
Myanmar (n.) A mountainous republic in southeastern Asia on the Bay of Bengal; "much opium is grown in Myanmar" [syn: Union of Burma, Burma].
Compare: Marigold
Marigold (n.) Bot. A name for several plants with golden yellow blossoms, especially the Calendula officinalis (see Calendula), and the cultivated species of Tagetes.
Note: There are several yellow-flowered plants of different genera bearing this name; as, the African marigold or French marigold of the genus Tagetes, of which several species and many varieties are found in gardens. They are mostly strong-smelling herbs from South America and Mexico: bur marigold, of the genus Bidens; corn marigold, of the genus Chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum segetum, a pest in the cornfields of Italy); fig marigold, of the genus Mesembryanthemum; marsh marigold, of the genus Caltha (Caltha palustris), commonly known in America as the cowslip. See Marsh Marigold.
Marigold window. (Arch.) See Rose window, under Rose.
Compare: Stick-tight
Stick-tight (n.) (Bot.) Any of several plants having seeds tipped with barbs that may cling to fur or clothing, especially those of the genus Bidens, also called bur marigold, beggar-ticks, and Beggar's ticks, which have prickly flattened achenes. -- RHUD
Bur marigold () See Beggar's ticks.
Bur marigold (n.) Any of several plants of the genus Bidens having yellow flowers and prickly fruits that cling to fur and clothing [syn: burr marigold, beggar-ticks, beggar's-ticks, sticktight].
Burmese (a.) Of or pertaining to Burmah, or its inhabitants.
Burmese (n. sing. & pl.) A native or the natives of Burmah (Myanmar). Also (sing.), the language of the Burmans.
Burmese (a.) Of or relating to or characteristic of Myanmar or its people; "the Burmese capital"; "Burmese tonal languages."
Burmese (n.) A native or inhabitant of Myanmar.
Burmese (n.) The official language of Burma.
Burned (imp. & p. p.) of Burn.
Burnt () of Burn.
Burning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Burn.
Burn (v. t.) To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood. “We'll burn his body in the holy place.”
Burn (v. t.) To injure by fire or heat; to change destructively some property or properties of, by undue exposure to fire or heat; to scorch; to scald; to blister; to singe; to char; to sear; as, to burn steel in forging; to burn one's face in the sun; the sun burns the grass.
Burn (v. t.) To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some property or properties of, by exposure to fire or heat in due degree for obtaining a desired residuum, product, or effect; to bake; as, to burn clay in making bricks or pottery; to burn wood so as to produce charcoal; to burn limestone for the lime.
Burn (v. t.) To make or produce, as an effect or result, by the application of fire or heat; as, to burn a hole; to burn charcoal; to burn letters into a block.
Burn (v. t.) To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does; as, to burn the mouth with pepper.
This tyrant fever burns me up. -- Shak.
This dry sorrow burns up all my tears. -- Dryden.
When the cold north wind bloweth, . . . it devoureth the mountains, and burneth the wilderness, and consumeth the ??ass as fire. -- Ecclus. xliii. 20, 21.
Burn (v. t.) (Surg.) To apply a cautery to; to cauterize.
Burn (v. t.) (Chem.) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize; as, a man burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration; to burn iron in oxygen.
To burn, To burn together, As two surfaces of metal (Engin.), to fuse and unite them by pouring over them a quantity of the same metal in a liquid state.
To burn a bowl (Game of Bowls), To displace it accidentally, the bowl so displaced being said to be burned.
To burn daylight, To light candles before it is dark; to waste time; to perform superfluous actions. -- Shak.
To burn one's fingers, To get one's self into unexpected trouble, as by interfering the concerns of others, speculation, etc.
To burn out, (a) To destroy or obliterate by burning. "Must you with hot irons burn out mine eyes?" --Shak.
To burn out, (b) To force (people) to flee by burning their homes or places of business; as, the rioters burned out the Chinese businessmen.
To be burned out, To suffer loss by fire, as the burning of one's house, store, or shop, with the contents.
To burn up, To burn down, to burn entirely.
Burn (v. i.) To be of fire; to flame. "The mount burned with fire." -- Deut. ix. 15.
Burn (v. i.) To suffer from, or be scorched by, an excess of heat.
Your meat doth burn, quoth I. -- Shak.
Burn (v. i.) To have a condition, quality, appearance, sensation, or emotion, as if on fire or excessively heated; to act or rage with destructive violence; to be in a state of lively emotion or strong desire; as, the face burns; to burn with fever.
Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way? -- Luke xxiv. 32.
The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water. -- Shak.
Burning with high hope. -- Byron.
The groan still deepens, and the combat burns. -- Pope.
The parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire. -- Milton.
Burn (v. i.) (Chem.) To combine energetically, with evolution of heat; as, copper burns in chlorine.
Burn (v. i.) In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought. [Colloq.]
To burn up, To burn down, To be entirely consumed.
Burn (n.) A hurt, injury, or effect caused by fire or excessive or intense heat.
Burn (n.) The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking; as, they have a good burn.
Burn (n.) A disease in vegetables. See Brand, n., 6.
Burn (n.) A small stream. [Scot.]
Burn (n.) Pain that feels hot as if it were on fire [syn: burn, burning].
Burn (n.) A browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun [syn: tan, suntan, sunburn, burn].
Burn (n.) An injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or Radiation.
Burn (n.) A burned place or area [syn: burn mark].
Burn (n.) Damage inflicted by burning.
Burn (v.) Destroy by fire; "They burned the house and his diaries" [syn: burn, fire, burn down].
Burn (v.) Shine intensely, as if with heat; "The coals were glowing in the dark"; "The candles were burning" [syn: burn, glow].
Burn (v.) Undergo combustion; "Maple wood burns well" [syn: burn, combust].
Burn (v.) Cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort; "The sun burned his face" [syn: bite, sting, burn].
Burn (v.) Cause to burn or combust; "The sun burned off the fog"; "We combust coal and other fossil fuels" [syn: burn, combust].
Burn (v.) Feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion; "She was burning with anger"; "He was burning to try out his new skies."
Burn (v.) Cause to undergo combustion; "burn garbage"; "The car burns only Diesel oil" [syn: burn, incinerate].
Burn (v.) Burn at the stake; "Witches were burned in Salem."
Burn (v.) Spend (significant amounts of money); "He has money to burn."
Burn (v.) Feel hot or painful; "My eyes are burning."
Burn (v.) Burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent; "The surgeon cauterized the wart" [syn: cauterize, cauterise, burn].
Burn (v.) Get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun [syn: sunburn, burn].
Burn (v.) Create by duplicating data; "cut a disk"; "burn a CD" [syn: cut, burn].
Burn (v.) Use up (energy); "burn off calories through vigorous exercise" [syn: burn off, burn, burn up].
Burn (v.) Burn with heat, fire, or radiation; "The iron burnt a hole in my dress."
Burnable (a.) Combustible.
Compare: Combustible
Combustible (a.) Capable of taking fire and burning; apt to catch fire; inflammable.
Sin is to the soul like fire to combustible matter. -- South.
Combustible (a.) Easily kindled or excited; quick; fiery; irascible.
Arnold was a combustible character. -- W. Irving.
Combustible (n.) A substance that may be set on fire, or which is liable to take fire and burn.
All such combustibles as are cheap enough for common use go under the name of fuel. -- Ure.
Combustible (a.) Capable of igniting and burning [ant: noncombustible].
Combustible (n.) A substance that can be burned to provide heat or power [syn: combustible material].
Burnable (a.) Possible to burn [syn: flammable, ignitable, ignitible, inflammable].
Burned (p. p. & a.) See Burnt.
Burned (p. p.) Burnished.
Burner (n.) One who, or that which, burns or sets fire to anything.
Burner (n.) The part of a lamp, gas fixture, etc., where the flame is produced.
Bunsen's burner Chem., see Bunsen burner.
Argand burner, Rose burner, etc. See under Argand, Rose, etc.
Burner (n.) An apparatus for burning fuel (or refuse); "a diesel engine is an oil burner."
Burner (n.) The heating elements of a stove or range on which pots and pans are placed for cooking; "the electric range had one large burner and three smaller one."
Burnet (n.) (Bot.) A genus of perennial herbs (Poterium); especially, Poterium Sanguisorba, the common, or garden, burnet.
Burnet moth (Zool.) In England, a handsome moth (Zygæna filipendula), with crimson spots on the wings.
Burnet saxifrage. (Bot.) See Saxifrage.
Canadian burnet, A marsh plant (Poterium Canadensis).
Great burnet, Wild burnet, Poterium oficinalis (or Sanguisorba oficinalis).
Burnettized (imp. & p. p.) of Burnettize.
Burnettizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Burnettize.
Burnettize (v. t.) (Manuf.) 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.
Burnie (n.) A small brook. [Scot.]
Burniebee (n.) The ladybird. [Prov. Eng.]
Burning (a.) That burns; being on fire; excessively hot; fiery.
Burning (a.) Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful; as, burning zeal.
Like a young hound upon a burning scent. -- Dryden.
Burning bush (Bot.) An ornamental shrub (Euonymus atropurpureus), bearing a crimson berry.
Burning (n.) 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.
Burning fluid, Any volatile illuminating oil, as the lighter petroleums (naphtha, benzine), or oil of turpentine (camphine), but esp. a mixture of the latter with alcohol.
Burning glass, A convex lens of considerable size, used for producing an intense heat by converging the sun's rays to a focus.
Burning house (Metal.) The furnace in which tin ores are calcined, to sublime the sulphur and arsenic from the pyrites. -- Weale.
Burning mirror, A concave mirror, or a combination of plane mirrors, used for the same purpose as a burning glass.
Syn: -- Combustion; fire; conflagration; flame; blaze.
Burning (a.) Producing or having a painfully hot sensation; "begged for water to soothe his burning throat."
Burning (a.) Intensely hot; "a burning fever"; "the burning sand" [syn: burning(a)].
Burning (a.) Characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an ardent lover"; "a burning enthusiasm"; "a fervent desire to change society"; "a fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory"; "an impassioned appeal"; "a torrid love affair" [syn: ardent, burning(a), fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid, torrid].
Burning (a.) Lighted up by or as by fire or flame; "forests set ablaze (or afire) by lightning"; "even the car's tires were aflame"; "a night aflare with fireworks"; "candles alight on the tables"; "blazing logs in the fireplace"; "a burning cigarette"; "a flaming crackling fire"; "houses on fire" [syn: ablaze(p), afire(p), aflame(p), aflare(p), alight(p), blazing, flaming, on fire(p)].
Burning (a.) Of immediate import; "burning issues of the day" [syn: burning(a)].
Burning (a.) Consuming fuel; used in combination; "coal-burning (or wood-burning) stoves."
Burning (n.) The act of burning something; "the burning of leaves was prohibited by a town ordinance" [syn: combustion]
Burning (n.) Pain that feels hot as if it were on fire [syn: burn].
Burning (n.) A process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light [syn: combustion].
Burning (n.) Execution by electricity [syn: electrocution].
Burning (n.) Execution by fire [syn: burning at the stake].
Burnished (imp. & p. p.) of Burnish.
Burnishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Burnish.
Burnish (v. t..) To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper.
The frame of burnished steel, that east a glare From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing air. -- Dryden.
Now the village windows blaze, Burnished by the setting sun. -- Cunningham.
Burnishing machine, A machine for smoothing and polishing by compression, as in making paper collars.
Burnish (v. i.) To shine forth; to brighten; to become smooth and glossy, as from swelling or filling out; hence, to grow large.
A slender poet must have time to grow, And spread and burnish as his brothers do. -- Dryden.
My thoughts began to burnish, sprout, and swell. -- Herbert.
Burnish (n.) The effect of burnishing; gloss; brightness; luster.
Burnish (n.) The property of being smooth and shiny [syn: polish, gloss, glossiness].
Burnish (v.) : Polish and make shiny; "buff the wooden floors"; "buff my shoes" [syn: buff, furbish, flush].
Burnisher (n.) One who burnishes.
Burnisher (n.) A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses.
Burnoose (n.) Alt. of Burnous.
Burnous (n.) A cloaklike garment and hood woven in one piece, worn by Arabs.
Burnous (n.) A combination cloak and hood worn by women.
[Variously written bournous, bernouse, bornous, etc.]
Burnstickle (n.) (Zool.) A stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).
Burnt (p. p. & a.) Consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried, as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun.
{Burnt ear}, A black, powdery fungus which destroys grain.
See {Smut}.
{Burnt offering}, Something offered and burnt on an altar, as an atonement for sin; a sacrifice; called also burnt-sacrifice. The offerings of the Jews were a clean animal, as an ox, a calf, a goat, or sheep; or some species of vegetable substance, as bread and ears of wheat or barley.
Bur, 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; a seed vessel having hooks or prickles. Also, any weed which bears burs.
Amongst rude burs and thistles. -- Milton.
Bur and brake and brier. -- Tennyson.
Bur, Burr (n.) The thin ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal.
See {Burr}, n., 2.
Bur, Burr (n.) A ring of iron on a lance or spear. See {Burr}, n., 4.
Bur, Burr (n.) The lobe of the ear. See {Burr}, n., 5.
Bur, Burr (n.) The sweetbread.
Bur, Burr (n.) A clinker; a partially vitrified brick.
Bur, Burr (n.) (Mech.) (a) A small circular saw.
Bur, Burr (n.) (Mech.) (b) A triangular chisel.
Bur, Burr (n.) (Mech.) (c) A drill with a serrated head larger than the shank; -- especially a small drill bit used by dentists.
Bur, 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.
Burred (imp. & p. p.) of Burr.
Burring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Burr.
Burr (v. i.) To speak with burr; to make a hoarse or guttural murmur. -- Mrs. Browning.
Burr (n.) (Bot.) A prickly seed vessel. See {Bur}, 1.
Burr (n.) (Bot.) The thin edge or ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal, as in turning, engraving, pressing, etc.; also, the rough neck left on a bullet in casting.
The graver, in plowing furrows in the surface of the copper, raises corresponding ridges or burrs. -- Tomlinson.
Burr (n.) (Bot.) A thin flat piece of metal, formed from a sheet by punching; a small washer put on the end of a rivet before it is swaged down.
Burr (n.) (Bot.) A broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the gripe, to prevent the hand from slipping.
Burr (n.) (Bot.) The lobe or lap of the ear.
Burr (n.) (Bot.) [Probably of imitative origin.] A guttural pronounciation of the letter r, produced by trilling the extremity of the soft palate against the back part of the tongue; rotacism; -- often called the Newcastle, Northumberland, or Tweedside, burr.
Burr (n.) (Bot.) The knot at the bottom of an antler. See Bur, n., 8.
Burr (n.) Seed vessel having hooks or prickles [syn: bur, burr].
Burr (n.) Rough projection left on a workpiece after drilling or Cutting.
Burr (n.) United States politician who served as vice president under Jefferson; he mortally wounded his political rival Alexander Hamilton in a duel and fled south (1756-1836) [syn: Burr, Aaron Burr]
Burr (n.) Rotary file for smoothing rough edges left on a workpiece.
Burr (n.) Small bit used in dentistry or surgery [syn: bur, burr].
Burr (v.) Remove the burrs from [syn: bur, burr].
Burr, NE -- U.S. village in Nebraska
Population (2000): 66
Housing Units (2000): 40
Land area (2000): 0.084109 sq. miles (0.217841 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.084109 sq. miles (0.217841 sq. km)
FIPS code: 07205
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 40.536891 N, 96.300651 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 68324
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Burr, NE
Burr
Burrel (n.) A sort of pear, called also the red butter pear, from its smooth, delicious, soft pulp.
Burrel (n.) Same as Borrel.
Burrel fly (Zool.) The botfly or gadfly of cattle (Hypoderma bovis). See Gadfly.
Burrel shot (Gun.) A mixture of shot, nails, stones, pieces of old iron, etc., fired from a cannon at short range, in an emergency. [R.]
Burring machine () A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.
Burr millstone (n.) See Buhrstone.
Buhrstone (n.) A millstone cut from buhrstone.
Buhrstone (n.) (Min.) A cellular, flinty rock, used for mill stones. [Written also burrstone.].
Buhrstone (n.) (Variants: or less commonly burrstone or burstone) 矽質多孔石灰岩；矽質磨石 A siliceous rock used as a material for millstones.
Burro (n.) 驢子 A donkey. [Southern U.S.]
Burro (n.) Small donkey used as a pack animal.
Compare: Donkey
Donkey (n.) [C] 驢；傻瓜，蠢驢；頑固的人，謽驢 A domesticated hoofed mammal of the horse family with long ears and a braying call, used as a beast of burden; an ass.
Equus asinus, family Equidae, descended from the wild ass of Africa.
Donkey (n.) (Informal) A stupid or inept person.
Donkey (n.) (Informal) An engine.
Donkey (n.) A low stool on which an artist sits astride, especially in an art school.
Donkey (n.) [Mass noun] A children's card game involving exchanging cards.
Phrases:
Donkey deep (Informal) Seriously or heavily involved, especially in something considered controversial or undesirable.
‘They are donkey deep in this whole sordid affair.’
Donkey's years (Informal) A very long time.
‘We've been close friends for donkey's years.’
Burrock (n.) A small weir or dam in a river to direct the stream to gaps where fish traps are placed.
Burrow (n.) [C] （兔，狐等的）洞穴，地道；隱藏處；住處 An incorporated town. See 1st Borough.
Burrow (n.) A shelter; esp. a hole in the ground made by certain animals, as rabbits, for shelter and habitation.
Burrow (n.) (Mining) A heap or heaps of rubbish or refuse.
Burrow (n.) A mound. See 3d Barrow, and Camp, n., 5.