Part 1139

<h1>Birk</h1> <Xpage=148>

<hw>Birk</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Birch</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <def>A birch tree.</def> <mark>[Prov. Eng.]</mark> "The silver <i>birk</i>."

<i>Tennyson.</i>

<h1>Birk</h1> <Xpage=148>

<hw>Birk</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A small European minnow (<spn>Leuciscus phoxinus</spn>).</def>

<h1>Birken</h1> <Xpage=148>

<hw>Birk"en</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[From 1st <er>Birk</er>.]</ety> <def>To whip with a birch or rod.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Birken</h1> <Xpage=148>

<hw>Birk"en</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Birchen; <as>as, <ex>birken</ex> groves</as>.</def>

<i>Burns.</i>

<h1>Birkie</h1> <Xpage=148>

<hw>Bir"kie</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A lively or mettlesome fellow.</def> <mark>[Jocular, Scot.]</mark>

<i>Burns.</i>

<h1>Birl</h1> <Xpage=148>

<hw>Birl</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t. & i.</tt> <def>To revolve or cause to revolve; to spin.</def> <mark>[Scot.]</mark>

<i>Sir W. Scott.</i>

<h1>Birl</h1> <Xpage=148>

<hw>Birl</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t. & i.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>byrlian</ets>. <?/92.]</ety> <def>To pour (beer or wine); to ply with drink; to drink; to carouse.</def> <mark>[Obs. or Dial.]</mark>

<i> Skelton.</i>

<h1>Birlaw</h1> <Xpage=148>

<hw>Bir"law</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>By</er><er>-law</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>A law made by husbandmen respecting rural affairs; a rustic or local law or by-law.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>byrlaw</asp>, <asp>birlie</asp>, <asp>birley</asp>.]</altsp>

<h1>Birostrate, Birostrated</h1> <Xpage=148>

<hw><hw>Bi*ros`trate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Bi*ros"tra*ted</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Pref. <ets>bi-</ets> + <ets>rostrate</ets>.]</ety> <def>Having a double beak, or two processes resembling beaks.</def>

<blockquote>The capsule is bilocular and <b>birostrated</b>. <i>Ed. Encyc.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Birr</h1> <Xpage=148>

<hw>Birr</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Birred</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Birring</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. OE. <ets>bur</ets>, <ets>bir</ets>, wind, storm wind, fr. Icel. <ets>byrr</ets> wind. Perh. imitative.]</ety> <def>To make, or move with, a whirring noise, as of wheels in motion.</def>

<h1>Birr</h1> <Xpage=148>

<hw>Birr</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A whirring sound, as of a spinning wheel.</def>