Part 1487

<blockquote>A slender poet must have time to grow, And spread and <b>burnish</b> as his brothers do. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>My thoughts began to <b>burnish</b>, sprout, and swell. <i>Herbert.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Burnish</h1> <Xpage=194>

<hw>Bur"nish</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The effect of burnishing; gloss; brightness; luster.</def>

<i>Crashaw.</i>

<h1>Burnisher</h1> <Xpage=194>

<hw>Bur"nish*er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who burnishes.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses.</def>

<h1>Burnoose, Burnous</h1> <Xpage=194>

<hw><hw>Bur"noose</hw>, <hw>Bur"nous</hw><hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Ar. <ets>burnus</ets> a kind of high-crowned cap: cf. F. <ets>bournous</ets>, <ets>burnous</ets>, Sp. <ets>al-bornoz</ets>, a sort of upper garment, with a hood attached.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A cloaklike garment and hood woven in one piece, worn by Arabs.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A combination cloak and hood worn by women.</def> <altsp>[Variously written <asp>bournous</asp>, <asp>bernouse</asp>, <asp>bornous</asp>, etc.]</altsp>

<h1>Burnstickle</h1> <Xpage=194>

<hw>Burn"stic`kle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A stickleback (<spn>Gasterosteus aculeatus</spn>).</def>

<h1>Burnt</h1> <Xpage=194>

<hw>Burnt</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>p. p. & a.</tt> <def>Consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried, as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun.</def>

<cs><col>Burnt ear</col>, <cd>a black, powdery fungus which destroys grain. See <er>Smut</er>.</cd> -- <col>Burnt offering</col>, <cd>something offered and burnt on an altar, as an atonement for sin; a sacrifice. The offerings of the Jews were a clean animal, as an ox, a calf, a goat, or a sheep; or some vegetable substance, as bread, or ears of wheat or barley. Called also <altname>burnt sacrifice</altname>.</cd> <i>[2 Sam. xxiv. 22.]</i></cs>

<h1>Burr</h1> <Xpage=194>

<hw>Burr</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Bur</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A prickly seed vessel. See <er>Bur</er>, 1.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The thin edge or ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal, as in turning, engraving, pressing, etc.; also, the rough neck left on a bullet in casting.</def>

<blockquote>The graver, in plowing furrows in the surface of the copper, raises corresponding ridges or <b>burrs</b>. <i>Tomlinson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A thin flat piece of metal, formed from a sheet by punching; a small washer put on the end of a rivet before it is swaged down.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the gripe, to prevent the hand from slipping.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>The lobe or lap of the ear.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <ety>[Probably of imitative origin.]</ety> <def>A guttural pronounciation of the letter <i>r</i>, produced by trilling the extremity of the soft palate against the back part of the tongue; rotacism; -- often called the <i>Newcastle</i>, <i>Northumberland</i>, or <i>Tweedside</i>, <i>burr</i>.</def>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>The knot at the bottom of an antler. See <er>Bur</er>, <tt>n.</tt>, 8.</def>

<h1>Burr</h1> <Xpage=194>

<hw>Burr</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Burred</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Burring</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To speak with burr; to make a hoarse or guttural murmur.</def>

<i>Mrs. Browning.</i>