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Show BU B A Affiftances always attending us, upon the eaf tondition of our prayers, and by which the mof éu'rd«'nfome duty will become lightand eafy. Rogers Bu'RDENSOMENESS. 7. /. [from burdenJome.] Weight; heavinefs 5 uneafinefs t be born Bu'rDoCK. n. £ [perfolata.] A plant Bureav' n. J BU [bureau Fr. A cheft o drawers with a writing-board It i pronounced as if it were {pelt buro For not the defk with filver nails Nor bureau of expence Nor ftandith well japann'd, avail To writing of good fanfe Bu'RGMA i c t o t i g Bu'RGLAR. # / of houfebreaking z /. [from burg; 2 houfe BURGLARY and Jarron, a thief. t b i t n i n i a i i g f In the natur robbing of a houfe; but, as it is a term of art, ou reftrain it to robbing a houf b lawyer commo d o b r t n t i a t w i night, or breakin t i m c e n f o k l T n fome other fel by day, they call houfe-robbing by a peculia l w C name a n v b i r l r B e t f u y ‘What fa r i F i a S ' e y D r i l f o fin a a r b r [ / # Burc. #. /. See Burrow mafter.] One employed in the governBu'rcaGE. 2. [ [from durg, or burroaw. ment of a city A tenure proper to cities and towns They chufe their councils and burgomafters ou whereby men of cities or burrows hol of the burgeois, as in the other governments o Ssvift their lands or tenements of the king er other lord, for a certain yearly rent Cowell The grofs of the borough is furveyed togethe inthe beginning of the county; but there are fom other particular Jurgages thereof, mentioned unde the titles of particular men's pofieflions Hale's Origin of Mankind Bu'rcamot. n f. [bergamotie, Fr. 1. A fpecies of pear 2. A kind of perfume Bu'RcaANET. ] n. /. [from burginate, Fr. Bu'rRGoneT. § A kind of helmet Upon his head his gliftering burganet ‘The which was wrought by wonderous device And curioufly engraven, he did fit Spenfer's Muiopotmos This day I"Il wear aloft my burgonet Ev'n to affright thee with the view thereof. Shak I was page to a footman, carrying after him hi Hatkewill on Providence pike and burganct BURGEO'LS. n. /. [bourgeois, Fr. I. A citizen; a burgefs There are in it a the eight ancient cantons hundred burgeois, and abouta thoufand fouls Addifon on Italy 2. A type of a particular fort, probabl called fo from him who firft ufed it ; as Laugh where we muft, be candid where w can But vindicate the ways of God to man. Pgpe Bu'rGESss. 7. /. [bourgeois, Fr. 1. A citizen ; a freeman of a city or cor porate town 2. A reprefentative of a town corporate The whole cafe was difperfed by the knights o thites, and burge/fés of towns, through all the vein Wotton of the land porat #. /. [Se tow A' cor Burrow. or burrow Many towns in Cornwal, when they were firf allowed to fend burgeffes to the parliament, bor another proportion to London than now ; for fevera of thefe burghs fend two burgeffes, whereas London itfelf fends but four Graunt Bu'rRGHER. 2. /. [from burgh.] One wh has a right to certain privileges in thi or that place Locke It irks me, the poor dappled fools Being native burghers of this defart city Should in their own confines, with forked heads Have their round haunches gor'd Shakefpeare's As you like it After the multitude of the common people wa difmifled, and the chief of the burghers fent for the imperious letter was read before the better for Knolles of citizens Bu'RGHERSHIP 7. [fro The privilege of a burgher Switzerland that, fro and is a tower BurH defence or protetion : fo Cawenburb i a woman ready to affift; Cuthbur, emiGibjau's Camden nent for afliftance Bu'riar. n. /. [from To bury. 1. The a& of burying; fepulture; inter ment Nor would we deign him burial of his men Shake[peare See my wealthy Andrew dock'd in fand Vailing her high top lower than her ribs Shakefp. Merchans of Venice To kifs her burial Your body I fought, and, had 1 found Defign'd for burial in your native ground Dryden's Zncid z. Th a& of placing any thing unde earth or water We have great lakes, both falt and frefa; w ufe them for burials of fome natural bodies: fo we find a difference of things buried in earth Bacon and things buried in water 3. The church fervice for funerals It is a republick itfelf, under the protection o BURGH Addifon burgher. The office of the church is performed by th parifh prieft, at the time of interment, if not prohibited unto perfons excommunicated, and layin violent hands on themfelves by a rubrick of th burial fervice Ayliffe's Parergon 2 /. [from &ury.] He that bu Bu'riER ries ; he that performs the act of interLet one fpirit of the firft-born Cai bloody courfes O that, -each heart being fe the rude fcene may end . And darknefs be the durier of the dead Shakefpeare's Henry IV BURINE. #. /. [French. tool; a graver A gravin Wit is like the graver's burine wpon copper, o the corrodings of aquafortis, which engrave an indent the charatters, that they can never be deGowernment of the Tongue faced 70 Buryi., w. a. To drefs cloth as fuller Dig do Bu'rLAcE. =z f [corruptly written fo burdelais.] A fort of grape BURLE'SQUE. adj. [Fr. from burlare Ital. to jeft.] Jocular; tending to raif laughter by unnatural or unfuitable language or images Homer, in his charaéter of Vulcan and Therfites, in his ftory of Mars and Venus, in his be haviour of Irus, and in other paflages, has bee obferved to have lapfed into the burlefgue character, an to hav departed from that feriou air effential to the magnificence of an epick poem Addifon BurrE'sQuE o ideas #. ridicule may be, they are very apt to falbintb&uflijc;lfl? AAddifo o Ancien Yy sdice th [fro a @ 7o BURLE'SQUE tive.] To turn to ridicule Would Homer appl the ¢pithe divine o modern fwineherd ? 11; fxot, it ii; a: ivtiicli?;: t‘L Eumeus was a man of confequence; otheryig. ;iat me would burlefgue his own poetry Broome's Notes on thsg g Bu'rringss #. [ [from burly.] B%? blufter SR BURLY. adj. [ Junius has no etymology Skinner imagines it to come from fgpy lite, clownifh.] Great of ftature 5 grea of fize ; bulky tumid Steel, if thou turn thine edge, or cut pot OI; the burly boned clown in chines of beef, ere tho flecp in thy fheath, I befeech Jove, tha g may'ft be turned into hobnails Shakefpeare 1t was the orator's own burly way of nonfenfe, Away with all your Carthaginian ftate, Let vanquifh'd Hannibal without doors wait Too burly and too big to pafs my narrow gate He hufban bein Dryden burly man, fh a ver thought it would be lefs trouble for her to brin away little Cupid Addifn 7o BURN. @. a. preterite and participl burned, or burnt. [bepnan, Saxon. 1. To confume with fire They burnt Jericho with fire Fofua The fire burneth the wood Altar of Syrian mode, whereon to bur Plalns His odious offerings Milton That where fhe fed his amorous defire With foft complaints, and felt his hotteft fires There other fiames might wafte his earthly part And burn his limbs where love had burn'd hi heart Drydett A flethy excrefcence, becoming exceeding hard is fuppofed to demand extirpation, by burning awa the induration, or amputating. Sbarp's Surgery 2. To wound or hurt with fire or heat Hand for hand foot for foot, burning for burne ing, wound for wound, ftripe for ftripe Exodusy xXiv 2 3. To exert the qualities of heat, as b drying or fcorching O that I could but weep, to vent my paffion But this dry forrow burzs up all my tears. Drjdea ment Reign in all bofoms fpots in the fun, however noble his fiye nls Ludicrous languag When a man lays out a twelvemonth on th 70 BurN. . 2 1. To be on fire ; to be kindled A fire devoureth before them, and behind the a flame burneth 3 theland is as the garden of Ede before them, and behind them a defolate wxldgr Feel nefs Exadi:s The mount burned with fire O coward confcience, how doft thou affliét me The light burss blue. Is it not dead midnight Cold fearful drops ftand on my trembling flefh Shakefpeatt 2. To fhine ; to {parkle thro fh' burn lik in fa fh barg Th Burnt on the water Sbakefi:tare Oh prince ! oh wherefore burn your eycs f a wh me:f Is your fweet temper turn'd to fury 3. To be inflamed with paflion or defire When I burnt in defire to qv.'efltiorlx1 g:cm f:;?gl‘:f whic Al int they made themf{elve/€S s air Tranio, I burn, 1 pine, I perifh ey S)l] Tranio; S a e p gir ef mo n yo thi If T achicve no In Raleigh mark their ev'ry glory mix'd; Raleigh, the fcourge of Spain, whofe breaft with al w é ‘ r b r h t The fage, the patriot 4 Toa& with deftrudtive violence: ued of the paffions Shall thy wrath burn like fire 5. 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