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.
Burrower (n.) One who, or that which, burrows; an animal that makes a hole under ground and lives in it.
Burrstone (n.) See Buhrstone.
Burry (a.) Abounding in burs, or containing burs; resembling burs; as, burry wool.
Bursae (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 (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 (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.) 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.) 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.) 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.
Burstwort (n.) A plant (Herniaria glabra) supposed to be valuable for the cure of hernia or rupture.
Burt (n.) See Birt.
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 (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.) A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.
Bush (n.) A shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs.
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.
Bush (n.) The tail, or brush, of a fox.
Bush (v. i.) To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
Bushed (imp. & p. p.) of Bush
Bushing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bush
Bush (v. t.) 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.) 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.
Bush (n.) A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.
Bush (v. t.) To furnish with a bush, or lining; as, to bush a pivot hole.
Bushboy (n.) See Bushman.
Bushel (n.) A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.
Bushel (n.) A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.
Bushel (n.) A quantity that fills a bushel measure; as, a heap containing ten bushels of apples.
Bushel (n.) A large indefinite quantity.
Bushel (n.) The iron lining in the nave of a wheel. [Eng.] In the United States it is called a box. See 4th Bush.
Bushelage (n.) A duty payable on commodities by the bushel.
Bushelman (n.) A tailor's assistant for repairing garments; -- called also busheler.
Bushet (n.) A small bush.
Bushfighter (n.) One accustomed to bushfighting.
Bushfighting (n.) Fighting in the bush, or from behind bushes, trees, or thickets.
Bushhammer (n.) 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.) 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.) A bush or lining; -- sometimes called a thimble. See 4th Bush.
Bushless (a.) Free from bushes; bare.
Bushmen (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 (pl. ) of Business