Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 96
Burrowed (imp. & p. p.) of Burrow.
Burrowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Burrow.
Burrow (v. i.) To excavate a hole to lodge in, as in the earth; to lodge in a hole excavated in the earth, as conies or rabbits.
Burrow (v. i.) To lodge, or take refuge, in any deep or concealed place; to hide.
Sir, this vermin of court reporters, when they are forced into day upon one point, are sure to burrow in another. -- Burke.
Burrowing owl (Zool.), A small owl of the western part of North America ({Speotyto cunicularia), which lives in holes, often in company with the prairie dog.
Burrow (n.) 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.
Compare: Camp
Camp (n.) The ground or spot on which tents, huts, etc., are erected for shelter, as for an army or for lumbermen, etc. -- Shak.
Camp (n.) A collection of tents, huts, etc., for shelter, commonly arranged in an orderly manner.
Forming a camp in the neighborhood of Boston. -- W. Irving.
Camp (n.) A single hut or shelter; as, a hunter's camp.
Camp (n.) The company or body of persons encamped, as of soldiers, of surveyors, of lumbermen, etc.
The camp broke up with the confusion of a flight. -- Macaulay.
Camp (n.) (Agric.) A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost; -- called also burrow and pie. [Prov. Eng.]
Camp (n.) An ancient game of football, played in some parts of England. -- Halliwell.
Camp bedstead, A light bedstead that can be folded up onto a small space for easy transportation.
Camp ceiling (Arch.), A kind ceiling often used in attics or garrets, in which the side walls are inclined inward at the top, following the slope of the rafters, to meet the plane surface of the upper ceiling.
Camp chair, A light chair that can be folded up compactly for easy transportation; the seat and back are often made of strips or pieces of carpet.
Camp fever, Typhus fever.
Camp follower, A civilian accompanying an army, as a sutler, servant, etc.
Camp meeting, A religious gathering for open-air preaching, held in some retired spot, chiefly by Methodists. It usually last for several days, during which those present lodge in tents, temporary houses, or cottages.
Camp stool, The same as camp chair, except that the stool has no back.
Flying camp (Mil.), A camp or body of troops formed for rapid motion from one place to another. -- Farrow.
To pitch (a) Camp, To set up the tents or huts of a camp.
To strike camp, To take down the tents or huts of a camp.
Burrow (n.) A hole made by an animal, usually for shelter [syn: burrow, tunnel].
Burrow (v.) (v. t.) 在……挖洞（或通道）；使躲入洞穴；挖掘，挖出 Move through by or as by digging; "burrow through the forest" [syn: burrow, tunnel].
Burrower (n.) One who, or that which, burrows; an animal that makes a hole under ground and lives in it.
Compare: Buhrstone
Buhrstone (n.) (Min.) A cellular, flinty rock, used for mill stones. [Written also burrstone.]
Burrstone (n.) See Buhrstone.
Burry (a.) 芒刺多的；多節的 Abounding in burs, or containing burs; resembling burs; as, burry wool.
Burry (a.) Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers" [syn: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny].
Bursae (n. pl. ) of Bursa
Bursa (n.) 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.
Bursal (a.) Of or pertaining to a bursa or to bursae.
Bursar (n.) A treasurer, or cash keeper; a purser; as, the bursar of a college, or of a monastery.
Bursar (n.) A student to whom a stipend or bursary is paid for his complete or partial support.
Bursarship (n.) The office of a bursar.
-ries (n. pl. ) of Bursary.
Bursary (n.) The treasury of a college or monastery.
Bursary (n.) A scholarship or charitable foundation in a university, as in Scotland; a sum given to enable a student to pursue his studies.
Burschen (n. pl. ) of Bursch.
Bursch (n.) A youth; especially, a student in a german university.
Burse (n.) A purse; also, a vesicle; a pod; a hull.
Burse (n.) A fund or foundation for the maintenance of needy scholars in their studies; also, the sum given to the beneficiaries.
Burse (n.) An ornamental case of hold the corporal when not in use.
Burse (n.) An exchange, for merchants and bankers, in the cities of continental Europe. Same as Bourse.
Burse (n.) A kind of bazaar.
Bursiculate (a.) Bursiform.
Bursiform (a.) Shaped like a purse.
Bursitis (n.) Inflammation of a bursa.
Burst (imp. & p. p.) of Burst.
Bursting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Burst.
Burst (v. i.) 爆裂，炸破 To fly apart or in pieces; of break open; to yield to force or pressure, especially to a sudden and violent exertion of force, or to pressure from within; to explode; as, the boiler had burst; the buds will burst in spring.
Burst (v. i.) To exert force or pressure by which something is made suddenly to give way; to break through obstacles or limitations; hence, to appear suddenly and unexpectedly or unaccountably, or to depart in such manner; -- usually with some qualifying adverb or preposition, as forth, out, away, into, upon, through, etc.
Burst (v. t.) 使…破裂，使…炸破 To break or rend by violence, as by an overcharge or by strain or pressure, esp. from within; to force open suddenly; as, to burst a cannon; to burst a blood vessel; to burst open the doors.
Burst (v. t.) To break.
Burst (v. t.) To produce as an effect of bursting; as, to burst a hole through the wall.
Burst (n.) 突然破裂，爆發 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.
Burst (n.) Any brief, violent exertion or effort; a spurt; as, a burst of speed.
Burst (n.) A sudden opening, as of landscape; a stretch; an expanse.
Burst (n.) A rupture or hernia; a breach.
Bursten () p. p. of Burst, v. i.
Burster (n.) One that bursts.
Bursting (a.) [never before noun] If you are bursting with something such as pride, energy, or love, you feel or have a lot of it.
Bursting with: He was bursting with excitement.
The new teacher was enthusiastic and bursting with ideas.
Bursting (a.) [never before noun] Impatient because you want very much to do something.
Bursting to do something: I’m absolutely bursting to tell you what’s happened.
Bursting (a.) [never before noun] If a place is bursting, it is very full.
The bars were already bursting at 7 o’clock.
Bursting at the seams (= so full that there is no room for any more people or things): The camps are bursting at the seams with refugees.
Bursting (a.) [never before noun] (Spoken) Feeling very strongly that you need to urinate.
Burstwort (n.) (Bot.) A plant ({Herniaria glabra) supposed to be valuable for the cure of hernia or rupture.
Compare: Birt
Birt (n.) (Zool.) A fish of the turbot kind; the brill. [Written also burt, bret, or brut.] [Prov. Eng.]
Burt (n.) (Zool.) See Birt. [Prov. Eng.]
Burt (n.) English psychologist whose studies of twins were later said to have used fabricated data (1883-1971) [syn: Burt, Cyril Burt, Cyril Lodowic Burt].
Burt -- U.S. County in Nebraska
Population (2000): 7791
Housing Units (2000): 3723
Land area (2000): 492.766760 sq. miles (1276.259996 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 4.330607 sq. miles (11.216220 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 497.097367 sq. miles (1287.476216 sq. km)
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 41.854106 N, 96.337590 W
Headwords:
Burt
Burt, NE
Burt County
Burt County, NE
Burt, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 556
Housing Units (2000): 243
Land area (2000): 0.429609 sq. miles (1.112682 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.429609 sq. miles (1.112682 sq. km)
FIPS code: 09685
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 43.198075 N, 94.221616 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 50522
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Burt, IA
Burt
Burt, MI -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Michigan
Population (2000): 1122
Housing Units (2000): 420
Land area (2000): 4.535750 sq. miles (11.747538 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.535750 sq. miles (11.747538 sq. km)
FIPS code: 12000
Located within: Michigan (MI), FIPS 26
Location: 43.243308 N, 83.910002 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 48417
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Burt, MI
Burt
Burthen (n. & v. t.) See Burden.
Burton (n.) 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.
Bury (n.) A borough; a manor; as, the Bury of St. Edmond's
Bury (n.) A manor house; a castle.
Buried (imp. & p. p.) of Bury.
Burying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bury.
Bury (v. t.) 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.
Bury (v. t.) Specifically: To cover out of sight, as the body of a deceased person, in a grave, a tomb, or the ocean; to deposit (a corpse) in its resting place, with funeral ceremonies; to inter; to inhume.
Bury (v. t.) To hide in oblivion; to put away finally; to abandon; as, to bury strife.
Burying ground () Alt. of Burying place
Burying place () The ground or place for burying the dead; burial place.
Bus (n.) An omnibus.
Busbies (n. pl. ) of Busby.
Busby (n.) 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.
Buscon (n.) One who searches for ores; a prospector.
Bush (n.) 灌木，灌木叢； 未開墾的荒野地區 [the S] A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.
Note: This was the original sense of the word, as in the Dutch bosch, a wood, and was so used by Chaucer. In this sense it is extensively used in the British colonies, especially at the Cape of Good Hope, and also in Australia and Canada; as, to live or settle in the bush.
Bush (n.) A shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs.
To bind a bush of thorns among sweet-smelling flowers. -- Gascoigne.
Bush (n.) A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree; as, bushes to support pea vines.
Bush (n.) A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (as sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.
If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 't is true that a good play needs no epilogue. -- Shak.
Bush (n.) (Hunting) The tail, or brush, of a fox.
To beat about the bush, To approach anything in a round-about manner, instead of coming directly to it; -- a metaphor taken from hunting.
Bush bean (Bot.), A variety of bean which is low and requires no support ({Phaseolus vulgaris, variety nanus). See Bean, 1.
Bush buck, or Bush goat (Zool.), A beautiful South African antelope ({Tragelaphus sylvaticus); -- so called because found mainly in wooden localities. The name is also applied to other species.
Bush cat (Zool.), The serval. See Serval.
Bush chat (Zool.), A bird of the genus Pratincola, of the Thrush family.
Bush dog. (Zool.) See Potto.
Bush hammer. See Bushhammer in the Vocabulary.
Bush harrow (Agric.) See under Harrow.
Bush hog (Zool.), A South African wild hog ({Potamoch[oe]rus Africanus); -- called also bush pig, and water hog.
Bush+master+(Zool.),+A+venomous+snake+({Lachesis+mutus">Bush master (Zool.), a venomous snake ({Lachesis mutus) of Guinea; -- called also surucucu.
Bush pea (Bot.), A variety of pea that needs to be bushed.
Bush shrike (Zool.), A bird of the genus Thamnophilus, and allied genera; -- called also batarg. Many species inhabit tropical America.
Bush tit (Zool.), A small bird of the genus Psaltriparus, allied to the titmouse. Psaltriparus minimus inhabits California.
Bush (v. i.) 叢生，茂密地生長 To branch thickly in the manner of a bush. "The bushing alders." -- Pope.
Bushed (imp. & p. p.) of Bush.
Bushing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bush.
Bush (v. t.) 用灌木圍住（或覆蓋）；【口】使筋疲力盡 To set bushes for; to support with bushes; as, to bush peas.
Bush (v. t.) To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush; as, to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground.
Bush (n.) (Mech.) A lining for a hole to make it smaller; a thimble or ring of metal or wood inserted in a plate or other part of machinery to receive the wear of a pivot or arbor. -- Knight.
Note: In the larger machines, such a piece is called a box, particularly in the United States.
Bush (n.) (Gun.) A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored. -- Farrow.
Bush (v. t.) To furnish with a bush, or lining; as, to bush a pivot hole. bush baby
Bush (a.) Not of the highest quality or sophistication [syn: bush-league, bush].
Bush (n.) A low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems [syn: shrub, bush].
Bush (n.) A large wilderness area.
Bush (n.) Dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes [syn: scrub, chaparral, bush].
Bush (n.) 43rd President of the United States; son of George Herbert Walker Bush (born in 1946) [syn: Bush, George Bush, George W. Bush, George Walker Bush, President Bush, President George W. Bush, Dubyuh, Dubya].
Bush (n.) United States electrical engineer who designed an early analogue computer and who led the scientific program of the United States during World War II (1890-1974) [syn: Bush, Vannevar Bush].
Bush (n.) Vice president under Reagan and 41st President of the United States (born in 1924) [syn: Bush, George Bush, George H.W. Bush, George Herbert Walker Bush, President Bush].
Bush (n.) Hair growing in the pubic area [syn: pubic hair, bush, crotch hair].
Bush (v.) Provide with a bushing.
Bush, () In which Jehovah appeared to Moses in the wilderness (Ex. 3:2; Acts 7:30). It is difficult to say what particular kind of plant or bush is here meant. Probably it was the mimosa or acacia. The words "in the bush" in Mark 12:26; Luke 20:37, mean "in the passage or paragraph on the bush;" i.e., in Ex. 3.
Bush, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
Population (2000): 257
Housing Units (2000): 116
Land area (2000): 0.460591 sq. miles (1.192925 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.005600 sq. miles (0.014505 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.466191 sq. miles (1.207430 sq. km)
FIPS code: 10084
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 37.841286 N, 89.132199 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Bush, IL
Bush
Bushboy (n.) See Bushman.
Bushel (n.) A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.
Note: The Winchester bushel, formerly used in England, contained 2150.42 cubic inches, being the volume of a cylinder 181/2 inches in internal diameter and eight inches in depth. The standard bushel measures, prepared by the United States Government and distributed to the States, hold each 77.6274 pounds of distilled water, at 39.8[deg] Fahr. and 30 inches atmospheric pressure, being the equivalent of the Winchester bushel. The imperial bushel now in use in England is larger than the Winchester bushel, containing 2218.2 cubic inches, or 80 pounds of water at 62[deg] Fahr.
Bushel (n.) A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.
Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed, and not to be set on a candlestick? -- Mark iv. 21.
Bushel (n.) A quantity that fills a bushel measure; as, a heap containing ten bushels of apples.
Note: In the United States a large number of articles, bought and sold by the bushel, are measured by weighing, the number of pounds that make a bushel being determined by State law or by local custom. For some articles, as apples, potatoes, etc., heaped measure is required measuring a bushel.
Bushel (n.) A large indefinite quantity. [Colloq.]
The worthies of antiquity bought the rarest pictures with bushels of gold, without counting the weight or the number of the pieces. -- Dryden.
Bushel (n.) The iron lining in the nave of a wheel. [Eng.] In the United States it is called a box. See 4th Bush.
Bushel (v. t. & i.) [imp. & p. p. Busheled, p. pr. & vb. n. Busheling.] (Tailoring) To mend or repair, as men's garments; to repair garments. [U. S.]
Bushel (n.) A United States dry measure equal to 4 pecks or 2152.42 cubic inches.
Bushel (n.) A British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 pecks.
Bushel (v.) Restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken; "She repaired her TV set"; "Repair my shoes please" [syn: repair, mend, fix, bushel, doctor, furbish up, restore, touch on] [ant: break, bust].
Bushel, () measure. The Winchester bushel, established by the 13 W. III. c. 5, A. D. 1701, was made the standard of grain; a cylindrical vessel, eighteen and a half inches in diameter, and eight inches deep inside, contains a bushel; the capacity is 2145.42 cubic inches. By law or usage it is established in most of the United States. The exceptions, as far as known, are Connecticut, where the bushel holds 2198 cubic inches Kentucky, 2150 2/3; Indiana, Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri, where it contains 2150.4 cubic inches. Dane's Ab. c. 211, a. 12, s. 4. See the whole subject discussed in report of the Secretary of State of the United States to the Senate, Feb. 22, 1821.
Bushelage (n.) A duty payable on commodities by the bushel. [Eng.]
Bushelman (n.) A tailor's assistant for repairing garments; -- called also busheler. [Local, U.S.]
Bushet (n.) A small bush.
Bushfighter (n.) 灌木地戰士，叢林遊擊隊員 One accustomed to bushfighting. -- Parkman.
Bushfighting (n.) 利用叢林的戰爭，叢林戰，遊擊戰 Fighting in the bush, or from behind bushes, trees, or thickets.
Bushfire (n.) 矮林地之野火 An uncontrolled fire in the trees and bushes of scrubland.
Bushfire (n.) (also bush fire) 林區大火 A fire burning in the bush (= a wild area of land) that is difficult to control and sometimes spread quickly.
// Eight people died as bushfires swept southern Australia.
Compare: Scrubland
Scrubland (n.) (Also scrublands) 灌木叢林地 Land consisting of scrub vegetation.
Bushhammer (n.) 鑿石錘 A hammer with a head formed of a bundle of square bars, with pyramidal points, arranged in rows, or a solid head with a face cut into a number of rows of such points; -- used for dressing stone.
Bushhammer (v. t.) To dress with bushhammer; as, to bushhammer a block of granite.
Bushiness (n.) 繁茂；毛厚 The condition or quality of being bushy.
Bushing (n.) The operation of fitting bushes, or linings, into holes or places where wear is to be received, or friction diminished, as pivot holes, etc.
Bushing (n.) (Mech.) A bush or lining; -- sometimes called a thimble. See 4th Bush.
Bushing (n.) An insulating liner in an opening through which conductors pass.
Bushing (n.) A cylindrical metal lining used to reduce friction [syn: bushing, cylindrical lining].
Bushless (a.) Free from bushes; bare.
Bushmen (n. pl. ) of Bushman.
Bushman (n.) A woodsman; a settler in the bush.
Bushman (n.) One of a race of South African nomads, living principally in the deserts, and not classified as allied in race or language to any other people.
Bushment (n.) A thicket; a cluster of bushes.
Bushment (n.) An ambuscade.
Bushranger (n.) One who roams, or hides, among the bushes; especially, in Australia, an escaped criminal living in the bush.
Bushwhacker (n.) One accustomed to beat about, or travel through, bushes.
Bushwhacker (n.) A guerrilla; a marauding assassin; one who pretends to be a peaceful citizen, but secretly harasses a hostile force or its sympathizers.
Bushwhacking (n.) Traveling, or working a way, through bushes; pulling by the bushes, as in hauling a boat along the bushy margin of a stream.
Bushwhacking (n.) The crimes or warfare of bushwhackers.
Bushy (a.) Thick and spreading, like a bush.
Bushy (a.) Full of bushes; overgrowing with shrubs.
Busily (adv.) In a busy manner.
Businesses (n. pl. ) of Business.