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BURGENS, s. pl. Burgesses. Wyntown.

Lat. burgens-es.

BURGEOUN, s. A bud, a shoot. Douglas.

Fr. burgeon, id.; Su. G. boerja, oriri; Isl. bar, gemma arborum.

BURIAN, s. A mound, a tumulus; or a kind of fortification, S. Aust. Statist. Acc.

From A. S. beorg, burg, mons, acervus; or byrigenn, byrgene, sepulcrum, monumentum, tumulus.

BURIO, BOREAU, BURRIO, BURIOR, BURRIOUR, s. An executioner. Bellenden.

Fr. bourreau, id.

BURLAW, BYRLAW, BIRLEY, BARLEY. Byrlaw Court, a court of neighbours, residing in the country, which determines as to local concerns. Skene. Reg. Maj.

From Belg. baur (boer) a husbandman, and law; or as Germ. bauer, A. S. bur, Isl. byr, signify a village, as well as a husbandman, the term may signify the law of the village or district.

Burlie-Bailie, s. An officer employed to enforce the laws of the Burlaw-courts. Ramsay.

BURLED, BURLIT, part. pa. Acts Ja. II.

Does this signify burnt, from Fr. brul-er?

BURLY, s. A crowd, a tumult, S. B.

Teut. borl-en, to vociferate. Hence E. hurly-burly.

BURLY, BUIRLIE, adj. Stately, strong; as applied to buildings. Wallace.

Teut. boer, Germ. bauer, a boor, with the termination lic, denoting resemblance.

BURLINS, s. pl. The bread burnt in the oven in baking, S. q. burnlins.

BURN, s. 1. Water, particularly that which is taken from a fountain or well S. Ferguson.

Moes. G. brunna, Su. G. brunn, Isl. brunn-ur, Germ. brun, Teut. burn, borne, a well, a fountain; Belg. bornwater, water from a well. A rivulet, a brook. S. A. Bor.

Douglas.

2. E. bourn.

In this sense only A. S. burn, and byrna, occur; or as signifying a torrent.

3. The water used in brewing, S. B. Lyndsay. 4. Urine, S. B. "To make one's burn," mingere. Germ. brun, urina.

Burnie, Burny, is sometimes used as a dimin. denoting a small brook, S. Beattie.

To BURN, v. a. 1. One is said to be burnt, when he has suffered in any attempt. Ill burnt, having suffered severely, S. Baillie. 2. To deceive, to cheat in a bargain, S. One says that he has been brunt, when overreached. These are merely oblique senses of the E. v.

BURNET, adj. Of a brown colour. Douglas.

Fr. brunette, a dark brown stuff formerly worn by persons of quality.

BURNEWIN, s. A cant term for a blacksmith, S. Burns. "Burn-the-wind,—an appropriate term," N.

BURNT SILVER, BRINT SILVER, silver refined in the furnace. Acts Ja. II.

Isl. brendu silfri, id. Snorro Sturleson shews that skirt silfr, i. e. pure silver, and brennt silfr, are the same.

BURR, BURRH, s. The whirring sound made by some people in pronouncing the letter r; as by the inhabitants of Northumberland, S. Statist. Acc.

This word seems formed from the sound.

BURRA, s. The most common kind of rush, Orkn.; there the Juncus squarrosus.

BURRACH'D, part. pa. Inclosed. V. Bowrach'd.

To BURRIE, v. a. To overpower in working, to overcome in striving at work, S. B.

Allied perhaps to Fr. bourrer, Isl. ber-ia, to beat.

BURRY, adj. Henrysone.

Either rough, shaggy, from Fr. bourru, "flockie, hairie, rugged," Cotgr. or savage, cruel, from Fr. bourreau, an executioner.

V. Burio.

BURROWE-MAIL, V. Mail.

BURSAR, s. One who receives the benefit of an endowment in a college, for bearing his expences during his education there, S. Buik of Discipline.

L. B. Bursar-ius, a scholar supported by a pension; Fr. boursier, id. from L. B. bursa, an ark, Fr. bourse, a purse. Bourse also signifies "the place of a pensioner in a college," Cotgr.

Bursary, Burse, s. The endowment given to a student in a university, an exhibition, S. Statist. Acc.

BURSIN, BURSTEN, part. pa. 1. Burst, S. Lyndsay. 2. Overpowered with fatigue; or so overheated by exertion as to drop down dead, S.

BUS, s. A bush, S. buss. V. Busk. Douglas.

BUSCH, s. Boxwood, S. B. Douglas.

Belg. bosse-boom, busboom, Fr. bouis, buis, Ital. busso, id.

To BUSCH, v. n. To lay an ambush; pret. buschyt Wallace.

O. E. bussed.

R. Brunne.

Ital. bosc-are, imbosc-are, from bosco, q. to lie hid among bushes.

Buschement, s. Ambush. Wallace.

O. E. bussement.

R. Brunne.

To BUSE, BUST, v. a. To inclose cattle in a stall, S. B.

A. S. bosg, bosig, praesepe; E. boose, a stall for a cow, Johns.

To BUSH, v. a. To sheathe, to inclose in a case or box, S.; applied to the wheels of carriages.

Su. G. Belg. bosse, a box or case of any kind.

BUSH, interj. Expressive of a rushing sound, as that of water spouting out, Tweedd. J. Nicol.

L. B. bus-bas, a term used to denote the noise made by fire-arms or arrows in battle.

To BUSK, v. a. 1. To dress, to attire one's self, to deck, S.; bus, A. Bor. id. Douglas.

Germ. butz-en, buss-en, Belg. bocts-en, Su. G. puts-a, puss-a, ornare, decorare; Germ. butz, buss, ornatus; hence butz frau, a well-dressed woman.

2. To prepare, to make ready, in general, S. Sir Tristrem. 3. v. n. To tend, to direct one's course towards. Gawan and Gol. 4. It sometimes seems to imply the idea of rapid motion; as equivalent to rush. Barbour.

Busking, s. Dress, decoration. Acts Ja. VI.

BUSK, s. A bush. Douglas.

Su. G. Isl. buske, Germ. busch, Belg. bosch, frutex. Ital. bosco, wood.

BUSKENING, s. Sir Egeir.

Apparently high-flown language, like that used on the stage; from E. buskin, the high shoe anciently worn by actors.

BUSSIN, s. A linen cap or hood, worn by old women, much the same as Toy, q. v. West of S.

Perhaps from Moes. G. buss-us, fine linen, Gr. βυσσινον, id.

BUSSING, s. Covering. Evergreen.

Perhaps from Germ. busch, fascis, a bundle, a fardel.

BUST, s. A box. V. Buist.

BUST, BOOST, s. "Tar mark upon sheep, commonly the initials of the proprietor's name," Gl. Sibb.

Perhaps what is taken out of the tar-bust or box.

To BUST, v. a. To powder, to dust with flour, Aberd. Must, synon.

This v. is probably formed from bust, buist, a box, in allusion to the meal-buist.

To BUST, v. a. To beat, Aberd. Isl. boest-a, id.

BUSTINE, adj. "Fustian, cloth," Gl. Ramsay.

Perhaps it rather respects the shape of the garment; from Fr. buste, "the long, small or sharp-pointed, and hard-quilted belly of a doublet;" Cotgr.

BUSTUOUS, BUSTEOUS, adj. 1. Huge, large in size. Douglas. 2. Strong, powerful. Lyndsey. 3. "Terrible, fierce," Rudd. 4. Rough, unpolished. Douglas.

Su. G. bus-a, cum impetu ferri; Teut. boes-en, impetuose pulsare.

Bustuousness, s. Fierceness, violence Douglas.

BUT, prep. Without. V. Bot.

BUT, adv. 1. Towards the outer apartment of a house, S. Dunbar. 2. In the outer apartment. Dunbar. To gae but, to go forward, or into, the outer apartment; sometimes called the but-house, S. It is also used as a prep. Gae but the house, S. V. Ben.

A. S. bute, buta, Teut. buyten, extra, foras; forth, out of doors.

BUT, s. The outer apartment of a house, S. Dunbar.

BUT, prep. Besides. Barbour.

A. S. butan, praeter.

BUT, v. imp. Expressive of necessity, S. V. Boot.

BUT, s. Let, impediment, S. This is merely the prep. used as a substantive.

BUT AND, prep. Besides. V. Botand.

BUTER, BUTTER, s. Bittern. V. Boytour.

BUTT, s. 1. A piece of ground, which in ploughing does not form a proper ridge, but is excluded as an angle, S. 2. A small piece of ground disjoined from the adjacent lands.

Fr. bout, end, extremity. L. B. butta terrae, agellus.

3. Those parts of the tanned hides of horses which are under the crupper, are called butts, probably as being the extremities, S.

BUTWARDS, adv. Towards the outer part of a room, S. B. Ross.

BWNIST, adj. Uppermost. Dunbar.

From boon, contr. from abone, above, corresponding to modern boonmost, uppermost, q. v. Belg. bovenste, id. from boven, above.