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  • English Word Burnstickle Definition A stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).
  • English Word Burnt Definition of Burn
  • English Word Burnt Definition Consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried, as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun.
  • English Word Burr Definition Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and burdock. Also, any weed which bears burs.
  • English Word Burr Definition The thin ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal. See Burr, n., 2.
  • English Word Burr Definition A ring of iron on a lance or spear. See Burr, n., 4.
  • English Word Burr Definition The lobe of the ear. See Burr, n., 5.
  • English Word Burr Definition The sweetbread.
  • English Word Burr Definition A clinker; a partially vitrified brick.
  • English Word Burr Definition A small circular saw.
  • English Word Burr Definition A triangular chisel.
  • English Word Burr Definition A drill with a serrated head larger than the shank; -- used by dentists.
  • English Word Burr Definition The round knob of an antler next to a deer's head.
  • English Word Burr Definition A prickly seed vessel. See Bur, 1.
  • English Word Burr Definition The thin edge or ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal, as in turning, engraving, pressing, etc.; also, the rough neck left on a bullet in casting.
  • English Word Burr Definition A thin flat piece of metal, formed from a sheet by punching; a small washer put on the end of a rivet before it is swaged down.
  • English Word Burr Definition A broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the gripe, to prevent the hand from slipping.
  • English Word Burr Definition The lobe or lap of the ear.
  • English Word Burr Definition A guttural pronounciation of the letter r, produced by trilling the extremity of the soft palate against the back part of the tongue; rotacism; -- often called the Newcastle, Northumberland, or Tweedside, burr.
  • English Word Burr Definition The knot at the bottom of an antler. See Bur, n., 8.
  • English Word Burr Definition To speak with burr; to make a hoarse or guttural murmur.
  • English Word Burr millstone Definition See Buhrstone.
  • English Word Burred Definition of Burr
  • English Word Burrel Definition A sort of pear, called also the red butter pear, from its smooth, delicious, soft pulp.
  • English Word Burrel Definition Same as Borrel.
  • English Word Burrel fly Definition The botfly or gadfly of cattle (Hypoderma bovis). See Gadfly.
  • English Word Burrel shot Definition A mixture of shot, nails, stones, pieces of old iron, etc., fired from a cannon at short range, in an emergency.
  • English Word Burrhel Definition The wild Himalayan, or blue, sheep (Ovis burrhel).
  • English Word Burring Definition of Burr
  • English Word Burring machine Definition A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.