BUNTER
BUNT'ER, noun A cant word for a woman who picks up rags in the streets; hence, a low vulgar woman.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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BUNTING
BUNT'ING, noun A bird of the genus Emberiza. The name is applied to different species, as the English bunting and the rice buntingBUNT'ING, or BUN'TINE, noun A thin woolen stuff...
BUNTLINES
BUNT'LINES, noun Ropes fastened to cringles on the bottoms of square sails, to draw them up to their yards.
BUOY
BUOY, noun A close empty cask, or a block of wood or cork, fastened by a rope to an anchor, and floating on the water, to show where the anchor is situated. Buoys are of various...
BUOYANCY
BUOY'ANCY, noun The quality of floating on the surface of water, or in the atmosphere; specific lightness.
BUOYANT
BUOY'ANT, adjective Floating; light; that will not sink; having the quality of rising or floating in a fluid.1. Bearing up, as a fluid; sustaining another body. [Unusual.]
BUOYROPE
BUOY'ROPE, noun [buoy and rope.] The rope which fastens a buoy to an anchor.BUOY, verb transitive To keep afloat in a fluid; to bear up, or keep from sinking in a fluid, as in w...
BUPRESTES
BUPRES'TES, noun A species of cantharides, of a nauseous scent, and biting severely.
BUR
BUR,BUR'-REED, noun A plant, the Sparganium.
BUR-REED
BUR'-REED, n. A plant, the Sparganium.
BURBAST
BUR'BAST, noun A different orthography of bombast, which see.]1. A cloth made by sewing one stuff upon another; patchwork.2. Linen stuffed with cotton; stuffing; waddling.BUM'BL...
BURBOT
BUR'BOT, noun [from Latin barbatus, so named from its beard.]A fish of the genus Gadus, shaped like an eel, but shorter, with a flat head, and on the nose it has two small beard...
BURDELAIS
BURD'ELAIS, noun A sort of grape.
BURDEN
BURD'EN, noun burd'n; written also burthen. [Latin fero, or porto.]1. That which is borne or carried; a load. Hence,2. That which is borne with labor or difficulty; that which i...
BURDENED
BURD'ENED, participle passive Loaded with weight; incumbered; oppressed.
BURDENER
BURD'ENER, noun One who loads; an oppressor
BURDENOUS
BURD'ENOUS, adjective Grievous; heavy to be borne; oppressive.1. Cumbersome; useless.
BURDENSOME
BURD'ENSOME, adjective Heavy; grievous to be borne; causing uneasiness or fatigue; oppressive.
BURDENSOMENESS
BURD'ENSOMENESS, noun The quality of being burdensome; heaviness; oppressiveness.
BURDOCK
BUR'DOCK, noun [bur and dock.] A genus of plants, called Arctium. They are troublesome weeds.The lesser burdock is a species of zanthium.
BUREAU
BU'REAU, noun buro.1. A chest of drawers, for keeping papers or clothes.2. An ambassador's or secretary's office.In Spanish, this word bureo is a court of justice for the trial ...
BURG
BURG, noun [This is the same word as borough, the only difference being in the pronunciation of the final letter.]A borough; originally a fortified town, but now a city or town,...
BURGAGE
BURG'AGE, noun [from burg.] In English law, tenure in burgage or burgage tenure, is tenure in socage, applied to cities or towns, or where houses, or lands which were formerly t...
BURGAMOT
BURG'AMOT, noun A species of pear. [See Bergamot.]1. A kind of perfume. [See Bergamot.]
BURGANET
BURG'ANET,BURGEOIS', noun A burgess.BURGEOIS',BOURGEOIS', noun burjois'. A species of type, or printing letter,smaller than long primer, and larger than brevier.
BURGEOIS
BURGEOIS', n. A burgess.
BURGEON
BURGEON. [See Bourgeon.]