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- English Word Burden Definition To oppress with anything grievous or trying; to overload; as, to burden a nation with taxes.
- English Word Burden Definition To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).
- English Word Burden Definition The verse repeated in a song, or the return of the theme at the end of each stanza; the chorus; refrain. Hence: That which is often repeated or which is dwelt upon; the main topic; as, the burden of a prayer.
- English Word Burden Definition The drone of a bagpipe.
- English Word Burden Definition A club.
- English Word Burdened Definition of Burden
- English Word Burdener Definition One who loads; an oppressor.
- English Word Burdening Definition of Burden
- English Word Burdenous Definition Burdensome.
- English Word Burdensome Definition Grievous to be borne; causing uneasiness or fatigue; oppressive.
- English Word Burdock Definition A genus of coarse biennial herbs (Lappa), bearing small burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or wool of animals.
- English Word Burdon Definition A pilgrim's staff.
- English Word Bureau Definition Originally, a desk or writing table with drawers for papers.
- English Word Bureau Definition The place where such a bureau is used; an office where business requiring writing is transacted.
- English Word Bureau Definition Hence: A department of public business requiring a force of clerks; the body of officials in a department who labor under the direction of a chief.
- English Word Bureau Definition A chest of drawers for clothes, especially when made as an ornamental piece of furniture.
- English Word Bureaucracy Definition A system of carrying on the business of government by means of departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chief, in contradiction to a system in which the officers of government have an associated authority and responsibility; also, government conducted on this system.
- English Word Bureaucracy Definition Government officials, collectively.
- English Word Bureaucrat Definition An official of a bureau; esp. an official confirmed in a narrow and arbitrary routine.
- English Word Bureaucratic Definition Alt. of Bureaucratical
- English Word Bureaucratical Definition Of, relating to, or resembling, a bureaucracy.
- English Word Bureaucratist Definition An advocate for , or supporter of, bureaucracy.
- English Word Bureaus Definition of Bureau
- English Word Bureaux Definition of Bureau
- English Word Burel Definition Same as Borrel.
- English Word Burette Definition An apparatus for delivering measured quantities of liquid or for measuring the quantity of liquid or gas received or discharged. It consists essentially of a graduated glass tube, usually furnished with a small aperture and stopcock.
- English Word Burg Definition A fortified town.
- English Word Burg Definition A borough.
- English Word Burgage Definition A tenure by which houses or lands are held of the king or other lord of a borough or city; at a certain yearly rent, or by services relating to trade or handicraft.
- English Word Burgall Definition A small marine fish; -- also called cunner.