BURROCK
BUR'ROCK, noun A small wier or dam where wheels are laid in a river, for catching fish.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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BURROW
BUR'ROW, noun A different orthography of burgh, borough, which see.BUR'ROW, noun A hollow place in the earth or in a warren, where small animals lodge, and sometimes deposit the...
BURROWING
BUR'ROWING, participle present tense Lodging in a burrow.
BURSAR
BURS'AR, noun [See Burse.] A treasurer, or cash-keeper, as the bursar of a college, or of a monastery; a purser.1. A student to whom a stipend is paid out of a burse or fund app...
BURSAR-SHIP
BURS'AR-SHIP, noun The office of a bursar.
BURSARY
BURS'ARY, noun The treasury of a college, or monastery.1. In Scotland, an exhibition.
BURSE
BURSE, noun burs.1. A public edifice in certain cities, for the meeting of merchants to consult on matters of trade and money, and to negotiate bills of exchange. This is the na...
BURST
BURST, verb intransitivepreterit tense and participle passiveburst The old participle bursten is nearly obsolete.1. To fly or break open with force, or with sudden violence; to ...
BURSTENNESS
BURST'ENNESS, noun The state of having a rupture; the hernia.
BURSTER
BURST'ER, noun One that bursts.
BURSTING
BURST'ING, participle present tense Rending or parting by violence; exploding.BURST'-WORT, noun The Herniaria, a plant said to be good against hernia or ruptures.
BURT
BURT, noun A flat fish of the turbot kind.
BURTHEN
BURTHEN. [See Burden.]
BURTON
BUR'TON, noun A small tackle formed by two blocks or pulleys, used to set up or tighten the topmost shrouds, and for various other purposes; called also top-burton-tackle.
BURY
BURY, noun ber'ry. This word is a different orthography of burg, burh, borough. It signifies a house, habitation or castle, and is retained in many names of places, as in Shrews...
BURYING
BURYING, participle present tense Interring; hiding; covering with earth; overwhelming.BURYING, noun The act of interring the dead; sepulture. John 12:7.
BURYING-PLACE
BURYING-PLACE, noun A grave-yard; a place appropriated to the sepulture of the dead; a church-yard.
BUSH
BUSH, noun [Latin pasco, originally, to feed on sprouts.]1. A shrub with branches; a thick shrub; also, a cluster of shrubs. With hunters, a fox tail.2. An assemblage of branche...
BUSHEL
BUSH'EL, noun A dry measure, containing eight gallons, or four pecks. The standard English bushel by Stat.12. Henry VII., contains eight gallons of wheat, each gallon eight poun...
BUSHELAGE
BUSH'ELAGE, noun A duty payable on commodities by the bushel. [Not used in the U. States.]
BUSHINESS
BUSH'INESS, noun [from bush, bushy.] The quality of being bushy, thick or intermixed, like the branches of a bush.BUSH'-MAN, noun A woodsman; a name which the Dutch give to the ...
BUSHMENT
BUSH'MENT, noun [from bush.] A thicket; a cluster of bushes. [Not used.]
BUSHY
BUSH'Y, adjective [from bush.] Full of branches; thick and spreading, like a bush; as a bushy beard or brier.1. Full of bushes; overgrown with shrubs.
BUSIED
BUSIED, participle passive of busy; pronoun biz'zied.
BUSILESS
BUSILESS, adjective biz'ziless. [See Busy.] Without business; at leisure; unemployed.
BUSILY
BUSILY, adverb biz'zily. With constant occupation; actively; earnestly; as, to be busily employed.1. With an air of hurry or importance; with too much curiosity; importunately; ...
BUSINESS
BUSINESS, noun biz'ness. [See Busy.] Employment; that which occupies the time, attention and labor of men, for the purpose of profit or improvement--a word of extensive use and ...