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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 p.r.o.nouncing 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, s.h.a.ggy, 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._
