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BURNT-OFFERING, n. [burnt and offer.] Something offered and burnt on an altar, a...
BURR, n. The lobe or lap of the ear. 1. The round knob of a horn next a deer's h...
BUR'RAS-PIPE, n. An instrument or vessel used to keep corroding powders in.
BUR'REL, n. A sort of pear, called also the red butter pear, from its smooth, de...
BURREL-FLY, n. The ox-fly, gad-bee, or breeze.
BURREL-SHOT, n. Small shot, nails, stones, pieces of old iron, _c., put into cas...
BUR'ROCK, n. A small wier or dam where wheels are laid in a river, for catching ...
BUR'ROW, n. A different orthography of burgh, borough, which see. BUR'ROW , n. A...
BUR'ROWING, ppr. Lodging in a burrow.
BURS'AR, n. [See Burse .] A treasurer,or cash-keeper, as the bursar of a college...
BURS'AR-SHIP, n. The office of a bursar.
BURS'ARY, n. The treasury of a college, or monastery. 1. In Scotland, an exhibit...
BURSE, n. burs. 1. A public edifice in certain cities, for the meeting of mercha...
BURST, v.i. pret. and pp. burst. The old participle bursten is nearly obsolete. ...
BURST'ENNESS, n. The state of having a rupture; the hernia.
BURST'ER, n. One that bursts.