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bursal (ber' sal), a. [< bursa + -al.] Of or per- 
taining to a bursa or bursts. ,.^,^. , 
bursalis (ber-sa'lis), n.; pi. bursales (-lez). b ur seraceous (ber-se-ra'shius), a. 
[NL., < ML. bursa: see bursa.'] A muscle of to tnp na tural order "Burseraccce. 
the eyeball of birds and many other Saurop- bursiculate (ber-sik'u-lat), a. [< NL. bursicu- 
sida, serving to operate the nictitating mem- i ( ,t,, s < *bursicula., diin. of ML. bursa, a purse, 
brane or third eyelid, usually in connection -- 1 TJ.,_J* 
with another muscle called the pyramidalis. In 
birds this muscle is also called the quadrate or 
Burwell's operation 
burstennesst, burstnesst (bers'tn-, berst'nes), 
miphora is the source of myrrh, balm of Gilead, ami other burstennesst, bUTStnCSSt (bers tn-, Derst nes), 
resins. Different kinds of gum elenil are obtained from _ [-< bursten, btir.it, pp., + -ness.] 1. A broken 
speck's^of CajuiriMw^BiM-sera, aiid^Prottum.^^^^^^ Qr fogged condition; brokenness; in the ex- 
tract, a mass of bruises. 
quadratus. 
bursalogy (ber-sal'o-ji), n. [< ML. (NL.) bursa 
+ Gr. -J.oyia, < /ley', speak : see -ology.] In 
pouch: see burse, purse.] 1. Bursiform. 2. 
In bot., resembling a small pouch, or having a 
small pouch-like cavity. 
bursiform (ber'si-fdrm), a. [< ML. bursa, purse, 
+ L. forma, shape : see purse and form, n.] 
Pouch-like; saccate; saecular; vesicular. 
iinat. and zodl., the study of, or what is known bursitis (ber-si'tis), n. [NL., < bursa + -itis.] 
regarding, the bursaa. In pathol., inflammation of a bursa. 
bursar (ber'sar), n. [< ML. bursarius (> F. B urs l em porcelain, pottery. See porcelain 
boursier}, a treasurer, < bursa, a burse : see 
H' as beat me 
E'en to a cullis : I am nothing, right worshipful, 
But very pap and jelly ; I have no bones, 
My body 's all one burstness. 
Fletcher (and another?), Nice Valour, iii. 1. 
2. Rupture; hernia. 
burster (bers'ter), n. One who bursts ; one who 
breaks in pieces. Cotarave. 
bursting (bers'ting), p. a. [Ppr. of burst, v.] 
Breaking forth ; ready to burst or expand. 
Young spring protrudes the bursting gems. Thornton. 
bursting-charge (bers'ting-charj), n. 1. In 
mining, a small charge of fine powder, placed 
vuumtvf j, ii H ^.<,, ~. ^ poiiery. mining, a small cuaige 01 iiiie puwuei, piaucu 
burse.] 1. A student in a college who receives burst (berst), v. ; pret. and pp. burst, ppr. burst- in con t ac t with a charge of coarse powder to 
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an allowance from a fund for his subsistence, 
called a burse or bursary. The word was formerly in 
general use, and is still used in Scotch colleges; but in 
Cambridge such scholars are now called sizars, in Oxford 
2. The purser, treasurer, or bailiff of a college 
or other community. 
Bursaria (ber-sa'ri-a), n. [NL., < ML. bursa, 
a pouch.] A genus of ciliate infusprians, typi- 
cal of the family Bursariidai, to which very dif- 
ferent limits have been given. () By the old 
writers numerous dissimilar forms were combined in it. 
(6) By recent writers it is restricted to the B. trunea- 
te.Ua and closely allied species inhabiting fresh water. 
Bursariidae (ber-sa-ri'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < Bur- 
saria + -idai.] A" family of ciliate heterotri- 
chous animalcules, typified by the genus Bursa- 
ria. The oral cilia form a simple straight or oblique adoral 
fringe. The animalcules are free-swimming, persistent in 
shape, and more or less oval, but often flattened. Most of 
the species occur in the intestines of myriapods and worms. 
bursarship (ber'sar-ship), . [< bursar + -ship.] 
1. The office of a" bursar. 2. A bursary. 
bursary (ber'sa-ri), n. ; pi. bursaries (-riz). [< 
ML. bursaria, "office of a bursar : see bursar.] 
1. The treasury of a college or monastery. 
2. In the universities and colleges of Scot- 
land, a grant of money for a short period of 
years, obtained by a student, usually by com- 
petitive examination, to enable him to prose- 
cute his studies. 
bursch (bursh), n. ; pi. bursclien (bur'shen). 
[G., < MHG. burse, a society, esp. of students, 
prop, a (common) purse (> G. btirse, a purse), < 
ML. bursa, a purse : see burse and purse.] In 
Germany, a boy or lad ; specifically, a student 
at a university, especially a corps-student. 
burse (bers), n. [< F. bourse, a purse, bursary, 
exchange, stock exchange (see bourse), < ML. 
bursa, a purse, a bag, a skin, < Gr. ftv/xja, a hide, 
skin : see purse, which is a doublet of burse.] 
1. A bag ; a pouch; a purse. Specifically (o) A 
bag used to cover a crown. (b) Eccle*., a receptacle 
for the corporal and chalice-cover. It is square and flat, 
made of cardboard covered with rich silk or cloth of gold, 
embroidered and studded with jewels, open on one side 
only, and placed over the chalice-veil when the sacred 
vessels are carried to the altar by the celebrant. 
2f. Anything resembling a purse ; a vesicle ; a 
pod. Holland. 3f. Abourse; an exchange: as, 
''merchants' burses," Burton, Anat. of Mel., To 
the Keader. 
Come then, my soul, approach this royal burse, 
And see what wares our great exchange retains. 
Quarles, Emblems, ii. 7. 
4. A bursary. See bursary, 2. [Scotch.] The 
burse, the Royal Exchange in London, built by Sir 
Thomas Gresham in 1566, or the New Exchange, called 
Britain's Burse, and afterward Exeter 'Change, built in 
1609 by the Earl of Salisbury on the site of the present Ex- 
eter Hall in the Strand. There were shops over the ex- 
change, where female finery was sold. Hence the allusion 
in the quotation. 
She says she went to the Burse for patterns. 
Middleton and Dekker, Roaring Girl, vi. 
She has been at Britain's burse a buying pins and nee- 
insure the ignition of the latter. 2. In ord- 
nance, the charge of powder required for burst- 
ing a shell or case-shot. 
ing. [E. dial, also brust, brest, brasi; < ME. 
bersten, bresten, bristen (pret. burst, berst, brasi, 
pi. bursten, pp. bursten, borsten, brosten), < AS. _ _ 
berstan for *brestan (pret. bairst, pi. burston, pp. burstlet, An obsolete variant of bristle, 
borsten) = OS. brestan = OFries. bersta = D. burstnesst, n. See burstenness. 
bersten = MLG. bersten, barsten, borsten. Ltr. burstone (ber'ston) 
barsten = OHG. brestan, MHG. bresten, G. ber- b H l, rs tone and burrht 
sten = Icel. bresta = Sw. brista = Dan. briste, 
all orig. intrans., burst, break asunder; prob. 
allied to AS. breean, E. break, etc. Cf. Ir. bri- 
sim, I break, Gael. bris, brisd, break: see bruise. 
The spelling with u instead of e is partly due to 
the pret. and pp. forms.] I. intrans. I. To fly 
or break open as an effect of internal forces and 
with sudden violence ; suffer a violent disrup- 
tion; explode. 
And now a bubble burst, and now a world. 
Pope, Essay on Man, i. 90. 
A delicate spark 
Of glowing and growing light . . 
Ready to burst in a colour'd flame. 
sion;, . [Also written irreg. 
burrhstone; < burl + stone.] 1. 
A rough, unhewn stone. [Prov. Eng.] 2. A 
name given to certain silicious or siliciocalca- 
reous stones, whose dressed surfaces present a 
bur or keen-cutting texture, which makes them 
the best kind of millstones. The most esteemed va- 
rieties are obtained from the upper fresh-water beds of the 
Paris basin and from the Eocene strata of South America. 
The French burstones are of a whitish or cream color. 
Also called bur and bur-millstone. 
burstwort (berst'wert), n. [< burst, n., 3, + 
wort.] The Herniaria glabra, a low weed of Eu- 
rope, natural order Illeeebracea, formerly used 
in the treatment of hernia. Also called rupture- 
wort. 
Tennyson, Maud, vi. 3. burt 1 (bert), . Same as bret. 
Hence 2. Figuratively, to break or give way burt 2 (bert), v. [E. dial., < ME. burten, butt.] 
from violent pain or emotion : as, my head will j_ trans. If. To butt or thrust with the horns. 
burst; her heart 6r*( with gi'ief. 
So they bryng the bolde kyng bynne the schippe burde, 
That nere he bristez for bale, one bede whare he lyggez. 
Marie. Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 805. 
No, no ; my heart will burst, an if I speak : 
And I will speak, that so my heart may burst. 
Shak., 3 Hen. VI., v. 5. 
3. To come or go suddenly; rush: as, the en- 
emy in an instant burst upon us. 
We were the first that ever burst 
Into that silent sea. 
Coleridge, Ancient Mariner, ii. 
And every bird of Eden burst 
In carol, every bud to flower. 
2. To press or indent. [Prov. Eng.] 
H.t intrans. To butt ; thrust with the horns. 
Burton, as hornyd bestys, cornupeto, arieto. 
Prompt. Pan., p. 56. 
Burt lyke a ramme, arieto. Huloet. 
burtert, n. [ME. burter, burtare; < burfi + -er 1 .] 
A butter ; an animal that butts, or thrusts with 
its horns. 
Burtare [var. burter], beste, cornupeta. 
Prompt. Pan., p. 56. 
Older form of 
burthen 1 (ber'THn), n. and v. 
burden^. 
"Tennyson, Day-Dream, I/Envoi, burthen 2 (ber'THn), n. Older form of burden^. 
To burst in. to force a way violently from without au in- burthen 3 (ber'THn), n. An erroneous form of 
closed place into it. To burst out, to force a way vio- burden^ by confusion with burden 1 and burden 2 . 
lently from within outward. ^ ^ ^^ rf ^ me]Ty 
He made hym to falle on knees and handes to the erthe, p ope j m j t o f Horace, II. i. 80. 
that the blode braste o[ute of his h]ede. 
Merlin (E. E. T. s.), iii. 389. burthenoust, burthensome, etc. See burden- 
ous, etc. 
bur-thistle (ber'this'l), n. [Also called burry- 
thistle; < burl OT burry + thistle.] The spear- 
thistle, Carduus lanceolatus : so called from its 
prickly involucre. See thistle. [ScotchJ 
For had the passions of thy heart burst out, 
I fear, we should have seen decipher'd there 
More rancorous spite. Shak., 1 Hen. VI., iv. 1. 
To burst up, to explode ; hence, to fail ; become bank- 
rupt. [Colloq. and vulgar.] 
Then you think . . . that if Lammle got time he wouldn't 
II. trans. 1. To rend by force or violence 
tMe, 
-tre).] 
tl), n. [E. dial., < MUi. tnr- 
A sweeting apple. [North. 
dies. 
burseholdert, n. Same as borsholder. 
Of which tenn ech one was bounde for another, and the 
eldest or best of them, whom they called the Tithingman 
or Burtteholder, that is, the eldest pledge, became suretye 
for all the rest. Spenser, State of Ireland. 
Bursera (ber'se-ra), n. [NL., named after Jo- 
achim Burser, a German botanist of the seven- 
teenth century.] The typical genus of the or- 
der Burseracew, small trees or shrubs of Mexico 
and tropical America. There are over 40 species, 
with soft, brittle wood, yielding a fragrant resin which is 
used for varnish, incense, etc. 
Burseraceae (ber-se-ra'se-e), . pi. [NL., < Bur- 
sera + -acece. ] A natural order of polypetalpus 
exogens, shrubs or trees of warm countries, 
with compound dotted leaves. Very many abound 
in fragrant balsams or resins which have from early times 
been employed in medicine, fumigation, ami perfumery. 
Speciesof Boswellia yield olibanum or frankincense. Con- 
(that which confines or retains) ; open sudden- v-j-lli (ber'- 
ly and violently ; cause to explode : as, to burst ^) n [Origin 
one's bonds ; to burst a cannon. iUJ .. JL. 
He fasten'd on my neck, and bellow'd out 
As he'd burst heaven. Shak., Lear, v. 8. 
The well-trained apricot its bonds had burst. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, II. 176. 
2f. To break, in general. 
You will not pay for the glasses you have bunt f 
Shak., 1. of the S., Ind., i. 
= SyH. (w. i. and (.) 1. To split, separate, rend, tear. 
Qlapthorne, Wit in Constab. burst (b6rst), n. [< burst, v.] 1. A sudden 
disruption; a violent rending. 2. A sudden 
explosion or shooting forth ; a rush ; an out- 
burst : as, a burst of applause ; a burst of pas- 
sion; " burst of thunder," Milton, S. A., 1. 1651. 
Bursts of fox-hunting melody. Irving. 
3f. A rupture; a hernia. 4. A smart race ; a 
spurt. 
There are foxes that run so uncommonly short that you 
can never get a burst after them. Trollops. 
5. A sudden opening to sight or view. [Rare.] 
Here is a fine burst of country. 
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, viii. 
6. A spree. 
unknown ; per- 
haps from a 
proper name. 
Cf. aburton.] 
Naut., a tackle 
used for various 
purposes sin- 
gle burton, a tack- 
le rove with two 
single blocks, and 
largely used on 
merchant ships for 
loading and dis- 
charging cargo. 
Spanish burton, 
double Spanish 
burton, a tackle 
rove with one dou- 
ble and one or two 
single blocks. Top 
burton, a long 
tackle formed of a double and a single block, the upper 
block being hooked at the topmast-head. It is used for 
sending up or down yards or sails, setting up rigging, etc. 
Burton skate. See skate. 
bur-treCj . Same as bour-tree. 
tied), n. [< bur 1 + weed 1 .] A 
to plants of the genus Xan thium : 
also applied to the bedstraw, Galimn Aparine, 
He was born bursttn ; and yonr worship knows . TV;,,,,,A>*^. <Sao KurJuirk 
That is a pretty step to men's compassion. nd m Jamaica to Tl mnifetta. bee bur-bark. 
Beau, and Ft., Scornful Lady. BuTWell S operation. See operation. 
i. Single Burton. 2. Double Spanish Burton. 
3. Top Burton. 
