Webster's Dictionary 1828

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BURLESQUE

BURLESQUE,BURLESQ'UER,BURLET'TA, noun A comic opera; a musical entertainment.

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BURLESQUER

BURLESQ'UER,

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BURLETTA

BURLET'TA, n. A comic opera; a musical entertainment.

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BURLINESS

BUR'LINESS, noun [See Burly.] Bulk; bluster.

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BURLY

BURL'Y, adjective [The sense probably is swelled.] Great in size; bulky; timid; falsely great; boisterous. This word is obsolete or nearly so in America; but hurly-burly is comm...

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BURN

BURN, verb transitivepreterit tense and participle passive burned or burnt. [Latin pruna, and perhaps, furnus, fornaz, a furnace. The primary sense is, to rage, to act with viol...

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BURNABLE

BURN'ABLE, adjective That may be burnt. [Little used.]BURN'-COW or BURST'-COW, noun A genus of insects, with filiform feelers, of several species; very obnoxious to cattle.

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BURNED

BURN'ED, BURNT, participle passive Consumed with fire; scorched or dried with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire.

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BURNER

BURN'ER, noun A person who burns or sets fire to any thing.

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BURNET

BURN'ET, noun A plant, Poterium or garden burnet

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BURNET-SAXIFRAGE

BURNET-SAXIFRAGE, noun A plant, Pimpinella.

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BURNING

BURN'ING, participle present tense Consuming with fire; flaming; scorching; hardening by fire; calcining; charring; raging as fire; glowing.BURN'ING, noun Combustion; the act of...

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BURNING-GLASS

BURN'ING-GLASS, noun [burn and glass.] A convex glass which, when exposed to the direct rays of the sun, collects them into a small space, called a focus, producing an intense h...

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BURNING-THORNY-PLA

BURNING-THORNY-PLANT.A species of Euphorbia or spurge.

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BURNISH

BURN'ISH, verb transitive To polish by friction; to make smooth, bright and glossy; as, to burnish steel.BURN'ISH, verb intransitive To grow bright or glossy.BURN'ISH, noun Glos...

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BURNISHED

BURN'ISHED, participle passive Polished; made glossy.

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BURNISHER

BURN'ISHER, noun The person who polishes, or makes glossy.1. An instrument used in polishing, of different kinds. It may be a piece of round polished steel, a dog's or wolf's to...

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BURNISHING

BURN'ISHING, participle present tense Polishing; making smooth and glossy.

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BURNOOSE

BURN'OOSE,BURN'OS, noun An upper cloke or garment.

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BURNOS

BURN'OS, n. An upper cloke or garment.

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BURNT

BURNT, participle passive of burn. Consumed; scorched; heated; subjected to the action of fire.

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BURNT-OFFERING

BURNT-OFFERING, noun [burnt and offer.] Something offered and burnt on an altar, as an atonement for sin; a sacrifice; called also burnt-sacrifice. The offerings of the Jews wer...

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BURR

BURR, noun The lobe or lap of the ear.1. The round knob of a horn next a deer's head.2. The sweetbread.BURR-pump, or bilge-pump. A pump, having a staff of 6, 7 or 8 feet long wi...

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BURRAS-PIPE

BUR'RAS-PIPE, noun An instrument or vessel used to keep corroding powders in.

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BURREL

BUR'REL, noun A sort of pear, called also the red butter pear, from its smooth, delicious, soft pulp.

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BURREL-FLY

BURREL-FLY, noun The ox-fly, gad-bee, or breeze.

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BURREL-SHOT

BURREL-SHOT, noun Small shot, nails, stones, pieces of old iron, etc., put into cases, to be discharged among enemies.