Part 1482

<i>Shak.</i>

<blockquote>Now to glorious <b>burial</b> slowly borne. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Burial case</col>, <cd>a form of coffin, usually of iron, made to close air-tight, for the preservation of a dead body.</cd> -- <col>Burial ground</col>, <cd>a piece of ground selected and set apart for a place of buriials, and consecrated to such use by religious ceremonies.</cd> -- <col>Burial place</col>, <cd>any place where burials are made.</cd> -- <col>Burial service</col>. <cd><sd>(a)</sd> The religious service performed at the interment of the dead; a funeral service. <sd>(b)</sd> That portion of a liturgy which is read at an interment; as, the English <i>burial service<i>.</cd></cs>

<syn>Syn. -- Sepulture; interment; inhumation.</syn>

<h1>Burier</h1> <Xpage=193>

<hw>Bur"i*er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who, or that which, buries.</def>

<blockquote>Till the <b>buriers</b> have buried it. <i>Ezek. xxxix. 15.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>And darkness be the <b>burier</b> of the dead. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Burin</h1> <Xpage=193>

<hw>Bu"rin</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>burin</ets>, cf. It. <ets>burino</ets>, <ets>bulino</ets>; prob. from OHG. <ets>bora</ets> borer, <ets>bor\'d3n</ets> to bore, G. <ets>bohren</ets>. See 1st <er>Bore</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The cutting tool of an engraver on metal, used in line engraving. It is made of tempered steel, one end being ground off obliquely so as to produce a sharp point, and the other end inserted in a handle; a graver; also, the similarly shaped tool used by workers in marble.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The manner or style of execution of an engraver; <as>as, a soft <ex>burin</ex>; a brilliant <ex>burin</ex>.</as></def>

<h1>Burinist</h1> <Xpage=193>

<hw>Bu"rin*ist</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who works with the burin.</def>

<i>For. Quart. Rev.</i>

<h1>Burion</h1> <Xpage=193>

<hw>Bu"ri*on</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>The red-breasted house sparrow of California (<spn>Carpodacus frontalis</spn>); -- called also <altname>crimson-fronted bullfinch</altname>.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>burrion</asp>.]</altsp>

<h1>Burke</h1> <Xpage=193>

<hw>Burke</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Burked<tt>er> <tt>(<?/)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb.n</tt>. <er>Burking<tt>er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[From one <ets>Burke</ets> of Edinburgh, who committed the crime in 1829.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; <as>as, to <ex>burke</ex> a parliamentary question</as>.</def>

<blockquote>The court could not <b>burke</b> an inquiry, supported by such a mass of a affidavits. <i>C. Reade.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Burkism</h1> <Xpage=193>

<hw>Burk"ism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The practice of killing persons for the purpose of selling their bodies for dissection.</def>

<h1>Burl</h1> <Xpage=193>

<hw>Burl</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Burled</er> <tt>(<?/)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n</tt>. <er>Burling</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>burle</ets> stuffing, or a knot in cloth; cf. F. <ets>bourlet</ets>, <ets>bourrelet</ets>, OF. <ets>bourel</ets>, a wreath or a roll of cloth, linen, or leather, stuffed with flocks, etc., dim. of <ets>bourre</ets>. \'fb92. See <er>Bur</er>.]</ety> <def>To dress or finish up (cloth); to pick knots, burs, loose threads, etc., from, as in finishing cloth.</def>

<cs><col>Burling iron</col>, <cd>a peculiar kind of nippers or tweezers used in burling woolen cloth.</cd></cs>

<h1>Burl</h1> <Xpage=193>

<hw>Burl</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A knot or lump in thread or cloth.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>An overgrown knot, or an excrescence, on a tree; also, veneer made from such excrescences.</def>