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Bur   /bər/   Listen
noun
Burr, Bur  n.  
1.
(Bot.) Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and burdock; a seed vessel having hooks or prickles. Also, any weed which bears burs. "Amongst rude burs and thistles." "Bur and brake and brier."
2.
The thin ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal. See Burr, n., 2.
3.
A ring of iron on a lance or spear. See Burr, n., 4.
4.
The lobe of the ear. See Burr, n., 5.
5.
The sweetbread.
6.
A clinker; a partially vitrified brick.
7.
(Mech.)
(a)
A small circular saw.
(b)
A triangular chisel.
(c)
A drill with a serrated head larger than the shank; especially a small drill bit used by dentists.
8.
(Zool.) The round knob of an antler next to a deer's head. Commonly written burr.
Bur oak (Bot.), a useful and ornamental species of oak (Quercus macrocarpa) with ovoid acorns inclosed in deep cups imbricated with pointed scales. It grows in the Middle and Western United States, and its wood is tough, close-grained, and durable.
Bur reed (Bot.), a plant of the genus Sparganium, having long ribbonlike leaves.





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"Bur" Quotes from Famous Books



... many English books, and has heard so much about primroses, and they have got so mixed up in her mind with leagues, and dames, and Disraelis, that she longs to see this mysterious political flower, and has made me promise to telegraph when it appears, and she will come over. Bur they are not going to do anything this year, and I only hope those cold days did not send them off to the Paradise of flowers. I am afraid their first impression of Germany was a ...
— Elizabeth and her German Garden • "Elizabeth", AKA Marie Annette Beauchamp
... the Bishop of London and Salisbury for violating the privileges of Canterbury, answered that the matter must go before the Pope. The bishops, instead of going to Rome, hastened to Henry, who was keeping his Court at Bur, in France. ...
— The Rise of the Democracy • Joseph Clayton
... I presume alludes to the marvellous beast Al-Burk which the Greeks called from (Euthymius in Pocock, Spec. A.H. p.144) and which Indian Moslems picture with human face, ass's ears, equine body and peacock's wings and tail. The "widgeon" I presume to be a mistake or ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton
... [bur (bet-vov-resh)] means "uncultivated" ([sadeh bur] "an uncultivated field"). It is used of an ignorant, uncultured, mannerless person, possessing no moral or spiritual virtues. Taylor translates it by "boor." [am ha'aretz], literally "people ...
— Pirke Avot - Sayings of the Jewish Fathers • Traditional Text
... been taken by her to the house of a Jesuit, 169, in the Bur Street, nearly opposite to her Lust Haus, and that the Jesuit had given him some letters and fifty ...
— Snarley-yow - or The Dog Fiend • Frederick Marryat


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