Burler

One who dre es cloth; one who removes knots, . from cloth. Burle's on, in Alabama , a P. O. of Franklin co. Burleson, in Tezas , a S. central county, bounded N.E. by Brazos river, and S. by Yegua creek. Area , 1,025 sq. m. Sol . For the most part fertile. Cap . Caldwell. Pop . (1898) 15,000. Burlesque, (bur-lesk',) a. [Fr.; It. burlesco , from L. Lat. burlare , to jest, play the fool; L. Lat. burleschus , satirical.] Jesting; jeering; jocular; tending to excite laughter by ludicrous images. -n. (Lit.) A style of composition in which the humor consists in a ludicrous mixture of things high and low, of high thoughts clothed in low expre ions; or vice vers a , of ordinary or base topics invested in artificial dignity. The B. style may exist in conversation as well as in written composition, and even in acting and drawing. It is, however, most common in poetry. B. appears to have been unknown among the ancients; but specimens of it are found in most modern languages, particularly the Italian. Butler's Hudibras is a well-known example in English. -v. a. To turn into ridicule; to make ludicrous by perverted representation. Bu'rin, a S. district of Newfoundland. Burk, in low a , a post-office of Benton co. Burke, v. a. [From the name of an Irish man who first perpetrated the crime in 1829.] To murder in order to obtain the body for di ection. (R.) - To dispose of in a quiet, unobtrusive manner; to shelve; as, to burke a question. Burke, EDMUND, an eminent author, statesman, and orator, B., of a good Irish family, at Dublin, 1730. After leaving Trinity College in that city, where he had acquitted himself brilliantly, he resorted to London in 1749, where he became an a ociate of the most eminent literary characters of that day. In 1756, he published his celebrated E ay on the Sublime and Beautiful , which at once placed him in the front rank of authors. In 1765, B. became secretary to the Marquis of Rocking ham, prime-minister of England, and obtained a seat in Parliament, where he joined the Whig party. In 1769 appeared his observations On the Present State of the Nation , which elicited such admiration as to draw upon B. the credit of the authorship of the letters of "Junins." which appeared about the same time. On the outbreak of the American War, B. espoused the side of the colonists, and on the 19th April, 1774, in the debate for repealing the duty on tea, levied on the American people, he delivered a speech that electrified the British senate. B. steadily continued to be the champion of liberal measures in the English parliament, and, in 1782, was made a privy-councillor, and paymaster of the forces. Shortly afterwards, on Mr. Pitt taking the head of the govt., B. became, in conjunction with his illustrious friend Fox, one of the leaders of the opposition. In 1788, on the trial of Warren Hastings (q.v.), late governor-general of India, for "high crimes and misdemeanours," B. was one of the managers of the impeachment. On the third day of this momentous trial (which Burling ham, in New York , a post-village of Sullivan lasted for 10 years), B. delivered in the English House Burlesquer, ( bur-lesk'er,) n. One who burlesques, or acts in a burlesque. Burlet'ta, n . [It., from burlare , to jest.] A comic operetta or musical farce. Burline , n. State of being burly; bulkine . Burling a me, ANSON, B. at New Berlin, New York, 1822. Having embarked in politics, he was elected a member of the senate of Ma achusetts, and afterwards of Congre . He was sent as U. States Minister to the Chinese gov. in 1861. On his retirement from this post, in 1867, he was requested by the regent, Prince Kung. to go on a special mi ion for the Chinese gov., to some foreign courts. After visiting the U. States, where he concluded a treaty, July 4, he sailed from New York, and arrived at Liverpool in Sept. with the Chinese mi ion, including 10 Chinese and 2 European secretaries. The mi ion, received by the Queen, Nov. 20.1868, left England for Paris, Jan. 2, 1869, and B. D. at St. Petersburg, Feb. 1870. Burling a me, in Kansas , a city, former cap. of Osage co., 22 m. S.S.W. of Topeka. Pop . (1898) 2,450. county. cloth. of Commons a speech only equalled by the famous Burling ham, in Ohio , a post-office of Meigs co. "Begum" speech of his friend Sheridan. This wonder- Burl'ing-iron, n. An instrument used in burling ful masterpiece of commanding oratory held parliament for nine days under a spell of mingled awe and admiration. On the outbreak of the French revolution, he defended the cause of the French royal family, and denounced the exce es of the revolutionists in such unmeasured language as estranged him from his old political a ociates. In particular, his championship of the lovely and unfortunate Marie Antoinette was one of those episodes of the old knightly spirit of past days, resuscitated to redeem the barbarous proletarianism of the time. It was in this speech, when describing the woes of this haple queen, that he uttered his memorable words, "The age of chivalry is past, 'tis gone!" B. next produced his Reflections on the Revolution of France, a work which has had no equal in knowledge, eloquence,