burbark (berbark)

The fibrous bark of Triumfetta semitriloba, a tiliaceous shrub of the tropics, yielding a very good fiber much tropics, yielding resembling jute. embling jute. bur1, burr1 (ber), n. [ burre , a bur (of a plant); not found in AS.; dock, burre , burdock, bur, urchin, in comp. kardborre , bur, burdock; cf. OF. bourre = Pr. Sp. Pg. It. borra , coarse hair, wool, etc., burr a , coarse hair, wool, etc.; perhaps same as LL. burr a , a shaggy garment (cf. pl. burræ , jests, trifles, nonsense), prob. OL. burr us, red, reddish: see borel i, burrel, bureau , birr us , birretta , etc., burl1 , burlesque , etc. Sw. Dan. borre, borre, a bursearesembl But the relations of the forms and senses are uncertain, and some of the modern senses are prob. of different origin.] 1. The rough, prickly case or covering of the seeds of certain plants, as of the chestnut and burdock. Hence-2. The plant burdock: as, “rude burs and thistles," Milton, Comus, 1. 352.-3. In general, a protuberance upon, or a raised portion of, an object, usually more or le rough or irregular in form. Specifically-( a ) The lobe or lap of the ear. (b) The circular bo round the root of an antler. (c) Formerly, that part of a saddle-bow which protected the thighs and knees. It was often of steel, or plated with steel, and engraved or decorated with gilding. (d) In engraving, slight ridges of metal raised upon a copper surface by the burin, the rocker, or the dry-point. It is sometimes wholly or partly removed by the scraper, but is often left to produce a peculiar effect of its own in the print. In mezzotint engraving, for example, the whole effect comes from the bur raised by the rocker, which is untouched in the deep shades and more or le burnished away to form the lights. (e) In founding, the roughne left on portions of a casting, which is rubbed off on a stone. (f) The rough neck left on a bullet in casting. 4. The name of various tools and appliances. (a) A triangular chisel used to clear the corners of mortises. (b) A small circular saw. (c) A fluted reaming tool. (d) Same as bur - drill. (e) A washer placed at the head of a rivet. (f) (1) A movable ring adjusted to the staff of a lance, and covered with minute projections a subfamily of Sturnida. buphagine (bū'fa-jin), a. Of or pertaining to the Buphaginæ or Buphagida.