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  • English Word Burro Definition A donkey.
  • English Word Burrock Definition A small weir or dam in a river to direct the stream to gaps where fish traps are placed.
  • English Word Burrow Definition An incorporated town. See 1st Borough.
  • English Word Burrow Definition A shelter; esp. a hole in the ground made by certain animals, as rabbits, for shelter and habitation.
  • English Word Burrow Definition A heap or heaps of rubbish or refuse.
  • English Word Burrow Definition A mound. See 3d Barrow, and Camp, n., 5.
  • English Word Burrow Definition To excavate a hole to lodge in, as in the earth; to lodge in a hole excavated in the earth, as conies or rabbits.
  • English Word Burrow Definition To lodge, or take refuge, in any deep or concealed place; to hide.
  • English Word Burrowed Definition of Burrow
  • English Word Burrower Definition One who, or that which, burrows; an animal that makes a hole under ground and lives in it.
  • English Word Burrowing Definition of Burrow
  • English Word Burrstone Definition See Buhrstone.
  • English Word Burry Definition Abounding in burs, or containing burs; resembling burs; as, burry wool.
  • English Word Bursa Definition 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.
  • English Word Bursae Definition of Bursa
  • English Word Bursal Definition Of or pertaining to a bursa or to bursae.
  • English Word Bursar Definition A treasurer, or cash keeper; a purser; as, the bursar of a college, or of a monastery.
  • English Word Bursar Definition A student to whom a stipend or bursary is paid for his complete or partial support.
  • English Word Bursarship Definition The office of a bursar.
  • English Word Bursary Definition The treasury of a college or monastery.
  • English Word Bursary Definition A scholarship or charitable foundation in a university, as in Scotland; a sum given to enable a student to pursue his studies.
  • English Word Bursch Definition A youth; especially, a student in a german university.
  • English Word Burschen Definition of Bursch
  • English Word Burse Definition A purse; also, a vesicle; a pod; a hull.
  • English Word Burse Definition A fund or foundation for the maintenance of needy scholars in their studies; also, the sum given to the beneficiaries.
  • English Word Burse Definition An ornamental case of hold the corporal when not in use.
  • English Word Burse Definition An exchange, for merchants and bankers, in the cities of continental Europe. Same as Bourse.
  • English Word Burse Definition A kind of bazaar.
  • English Word Bursiculate Definition Bursiform.
  • English Word Bursiform Definition Shaped like a purse.