Bureau

bur'o, n. a writing-table or chest of drawers, ong covered with dark cloth: a room oi office where such a table used a department for the transacting of public busmevs pi. Bureaux, bur'o, Bureaus, bur oz. [O. Fr. burcl, coarse ru et cloth — L. harms, daik red cf Gr py/thos, flame-coloured—pyr = Fire.] Bureaucracy, bflr-o'kras-i, n government by ojficinL appointed by the ruler, as opposed to sell -government or government by parliamentary majority [Bureau and Gr. k) to, to govern