bur2, burr2 (ber)

[ An aunt of my own, just come from the North, with the true Newcastle bur in her throat. Foote, The Minor, Int. 2. A whirring noise. See birr2, n. bur2, burr2 (ber), v. i.; pret. an pp. burred, ppr. burring. [ IMG:content-2749.png:[blocks in formation] long posterior one. It is an inhabitant of the fresh waters of northern Europe, Asia, and America. In favored northern localities it occasionally attains a weight of 50 to 60 pounds, but rarely exceeds a few pounds in England or the United States. It is generally regarded as inferior for food, and in most populous communities is rejected, but in the fur countries it is extensively used. It is best in cold weather. In England it is also called cony - fish and eel - pout; in the United States it is better known as the eel - pout, Mrs. Browning, Aurora Leigh, iv. cusk, ling, fresh - water cod, and lawyer; in the fur coun membranous lobe. buprestid an (bū-pres'ti-dan), a. and n. Same as buprestid. These hideous streets, these graves, where men alive, Packed close with earth-worms, burr unconsciously About the plague that slew them. tries it is quite generally known as the losh or loc he and marthy or methy. burbot-eel (ber'bot-el), n. A Yorkshire name of the eel-pout, Zoarces viviparus . bur-brick (ber'brik), n. Same as bur1 , 5. burdt, burdet, n. Variants of bird2 . Burdach's columns. See column . burd a lane, burd alone (bur'da-lān, -lōn), n. [Appar. burd , offspring, + alane , alone.] The last child surviving in a family. [Scotch.] And Newton Gordon, bird alone , And Dalgatie both stout and keen, And gallant Veitch upon the field, A braver face was never seen, Hence-2. Figuratively, to load; load; oppre with anything which is borne with difficulty or trou- ble; surcharge: as, to burden a nation with taxes; to burden the memory with details. If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it, for he has already lost all memory of the pa age, and ere you can rise up again, will burden you with ble ings. burdalisaundert, n. Same as bord a lisa under . burd alone, n. See burd a lane . burdasht, berdasht, n. [Origin obscure.] 1. A fringed sash worn by gentlemen in the seven- IMG:content-2750.png:[blocks in formation] burd in , burthin , MHG. bürden , a burden, load; the same, with diff. suffix, as MD. borde = OHG. burd i , MHG. burde , bürde , G. bürde = Icel. byr- dhr , mod. byrdhi Sw . börda Goth. baur the i , a burden; cf. Gr. φόρτος , φορτίον , a burden), beran (pp. boren ), etc., bear: see bear1.] 1. That which is borne or carried; a load. IMG:content-2751.png:[blocks in formation] If thou be'st the man That hadst a wife once call'd Æmilia, That bore thee at a burthen two fair sons. burden3 (ber'dn), n. [Also, erroneously, bur- the spindle of a millstone, which acts upon the burdown , the bail, drives Also written bahr- refrain of a song, burd on , bourdon , F. bourdon = Sp. bord on = Pg . bordão = It. bordone (Florio), a humming, buzzing, a drone or non- working bee, a bumblebee, also ba in music, refrain, bur do ( n- ), a drone, a long organ- pipe; origin uncertain. See bourdon 2.] 1. The ba in music.-2. In music : ( a ) The refrain or recurring chorus at the end of the stanzas of a ballad or song; a refrain. And far the echoing aisles prolong The awful burden of the song. (b) The drone of a bagpipe. (c) The song to which a dance is danced when there are no in- struments. Foot it featly here and there; And, sweet sprites, the burthen bear. 3. That which is often repeated; a subject on which one dwells; the main topic: as, this sub- The burthen of an honour Unto which she was not born. bureau (būrō), n.; pl. bureaus or bureauz (-rōz). [F. bureau , pl. bureaux , an office, a desk or writing-table, a court, a chest of drawers, orig. a kind of coarse brownish or ru et stuff with which writing-tables were covered, burel , a coarse woolen stuff: see burrel , borell .] 1. A desk or writing-table with drawers for papers; an escritoire. Swift .-2. A chest of drawers for holding clothes and other articles. Bureaus at the present day are commonly made with an adjustable mirror standing upon them. This is a compar atively modern practice, due to a combination of the fune- tions of the chest of drawers and the toilet-table. 3. An office or place where busine is trans- acted.-4. A department of government for the transaction of public busine . In England the term is confined to inferior and subordinate departments, and in the United States to certain subdivisions of some of the executive departments. - Bureau of Education. See education.-Bureau of Engraving and Printing, an of- fice of the Treasury Department of the United States gov ernment, whose head, called the chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, is charged with the engraving and an under part as an accompaniment. Chappell . certificates, internal-revenue stamps, etc., of the United This sompnour bar to him a stif burdoun . States. Bureau of Military Justice, a division of Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 673. the War Department of the United States government, 3. In England, a quantity of certain commodi- ties: as, a burden of gad-steel (that is, 120 or burden4+ (ber'dn), n. [ burd on , bord on, 180 pounds).-4. The capacity of a ship; the bourdon , OF. bord on , bourdon , a staff: see quantity or number of tons of freight a ve el bourdon1 .] A club. Spenser. IMG:content-2752.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-2753.png:[blocks in formation] And with his burdenous blowes him sore did overlade. Spenser, F. Q., V. xii. 19. Nor let that be light to thee, which to me is so burden- Sir P. Sidney. His maintenance is burdenous and chargeable vnto mee. Hakluyt's Voyages , I. 244. To sit idle on the household hearth, A burdenous drone. the office of the Judge-Advocate General. - Bureau of Ordnance. See Navy Department , under department.- Bureau of Statistics, an office of the Treasury Depart- ment of the United States government, whose head, called the chief of the Bureau of Statistics, is charged with the publication of reports conveying statistical information as to commerce exports, inuni tatimmeripping, navigation import and exp or tistics was established in 1884. Some of the State govern- ments have offices corresponding more or le closely to one or the other of these. - Freedmen's Bureau, in U. S. hist ., the name popularly given to the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, an office of the War De- part ment of the United States created in 1865 to care for the interests of the emancipated negroes of the South, es pecially with respect to education, a ignment of lands, and protection of civil rights. It ceased to exist in 1872- Signal-service Bureau, a bureau of the Department of Agriculture presided over by the chief signal-officer, having charge of military signaling, and of the collection and comparison of meteorological observations througli out the country, and the publication of predictions of the weather based upon them. - Weather Bureau. See burdensome, burthensome (ber'dn-, ber'THn- sum), a. [ burden , burthen1 , + -some.] 1. Weighing like a heavy burden; grievous to be borne; causing uneasine or fatigue; oppres- sive; heavy; wearisome: as, " burthensome ex- actions," Hallam . The debt immense of endle gratitude, So burdensome . If the Peoples demanding were so burd'nsome to him, what was his deniall and delay of Justice to them? Milton , Eikon ok las tes, vi. The inferior and burthensome offices of society. Burke , Abridg. of Eng. Hist., i. 2. 2t. Able to carry burdens or cargoes. For sale, Freight or charter, A strong, burthensome Brig Ma achusetts Mercury , April 29, 1796. of 160 tons. =Syn. 1. Onerous, troublesome, fatiguing, hard to bear. Syr burdens burdensomely, burthensomely (ber'dn-, bėr'- THn-sum-li), adv . In a burdensome manner. That as few employments as po ible may be burthen- somely and vexatiously interfered with. J. S. Mill . burdensome ne , burthensome ne (bèr'dn-, ber'THn-sum-nes), n. The quality of being bur- densome; heavine ; oppre ivene . burdot, burdont, n. [ bur do (n-), also bur- dus, a mule.) A mule bred of a horse and a she-a ; a hinny. burdock (bèr'dok), n . [ bur1 + dock1 .] The common name of the Arctium Lappa , a coarse, broad-leafed biennial weed, natural order Com- bureaucracy (bū-rō'kra-si), n. [ democracy , etc.] 1. Government by bureaus; specifically, exce ive multiplication of, and concentration of power in, administrative bureaus. The principle of hu reaucracy tends to official interference in many of the prop erly private affairs of life, and to the inefficient and ob structive performance of duty through minute subdivision of functions, inflexible formality, and pride of place. Republicanism and bureaucracy are incompatible ex- istences. W. R. Greg, Misc. E ays, 2d ser., p. 55. 2. The body of officials administering such bu- reaus, considered collectively. Count Roger found a machinery of taxation in full work. ing order, officers acquainted with the resources of the country, books and schedules constructed on the principles of strictest accuracy, a whole bureaucracy , in fact, ready to his use. J. A. Symonds, Italy and Greece, p. 162. bureaucratic There is a great material prosperity open to Hungary if the people will be content to be quietly governed, and if Austria will be wise enough to relax a little in the bureau cratic notions that now influence her. Ansted , Hungary, p. 251. bureaucrat i cal (bū-rō-krat'i-kal), a . [ bureau cratic + -al .] Same as bureaücratic . bureaucratically (bū-rō-krat'i-kal-i), adv . In a bureaucratic manner; as a bureaucrat. bureaucratist (bū-rō'kra-tist), n. [ bureau crat + -ist .] Same as bureaucrat . burelt, n. See burrel .