B U R 
the name of fajoicularis , ‘bearing bundles,’ becaufe the 
elytra, as far as fhe betid, are ornamented with numerous 
tufts, pointed, and (landing upright, in one pa'it yellow, 
and in another orange. Thele injects aie (aid to be loine- 
times found in timber-yards. 
BU'QUOI, a town of France, in the department ot the 
Straits of Calais, five nvles well of Bapaume. 
BUR, Bouu, Bor, /', [from bur, 'Sax.] An inner cham¬ 
ber, or place of (hade and retirement. 
BUR,/, {lappa: bourre, Fr. is ‘down;’ the bur being 
filled with a (oft tcmentum, or down.] A rou'gh head of a 
plant called a burdock , which (licks to the hair or clothes. 
._Dependents and fuitors are alw-ays the burs, and fome- 
the briers, of favourites. IVotton. 
And, where the vales with violets once were.crown’d, 
Now knotty burs and thorns difgrace the ground. Drydcn. 
' BUR,/ a broad ring of iron behind the place made 
for the hand on the (pears ufed formerly in tilting ; which 
bur was brought to red when the tilter charged his (pear. 
BU'RA, one of the (mailer Orkney idands, between 
Pomona and Ronald (ha. 
BU'RAZ, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the province 
of Natolia, twenty-eight miles, (outh-eaft of Degnizlu. 
BUR'BACH, a town of Hungary, celebrated for its 
wine : eight miles eafl of Eilenltadt. 
BUR'BAS,/. a (mall coin at Algiers, with the arms of 
the dey (truck on bothTides. It is worth half an afper. 
BURCAR'Dl A,/, [in memory of Jo. Hen. Burckhard, 
M. D. who publifhed Charaft. Plant, 170,2.] In botany, 
a genus of the clafs pentandria, order pentagynia. The 
generic characters are—Calyx : perianthium five-leaved ; 
leaflets ovate, externally villofe, acute, deciduous. Co¬ 
rolla : petals five, roundifh, obtufe, fpreadiiig, almoft the 
length of the calyx. Stamina: filaments five, capillary; 
antheras ovate. Piftilium : germ three-cornered ; (ivies 
five or fix, long; (ligmas flat,ibroadi(h, fiefliy, with'five 
prominent (freaks. Pericarpium: capfule three-fided, 
one-celled, three-valved ; receptacle linear, faftened lon¬ 
gitudinally to the middle ot each valve. Seeds : (even or 
eight, fubovate, adhering to each receptacle. The cap- 
fule is lometimes. four-cornered.— EJfential Char abler. Ca¬ 
lyx, five-leaved ; corolla, five-petalled ; capfule, angular, 
one-celled, three- valved, feven or eight feeded. 
Only one fpecies, burcardia villofa. It is ajn annual 
plant, with a branched (tern, two feet high, hirfute; with 
reddiflr brown hairs ; leaves alternate, fubfefltle, ovate-o'b- 
long, wrinkled, toothed, covered with hairs of the fame 
colour with thofe on the liem ; flowers at the-end of the 
Item and branches, axillary, Solitary, on long hairy pedun¬ 
cles ; the vvhol'e plant indeed is covered with ftift hairs. 
It is found on the fandy coafts ot Cayenne and Guiana. 
See' Cadlicarpa. 
BURCH IE]-.'LO, an Italian poet, better known under 
this name than bv that of Dominicp, which was his true 
one. Aurliors.d.fier concerning his country and the time 
of his birth. The general opinion is, that he was born at 
Florence about 1380, and died at Rome in 1448. This 
.poet wasVi barber at Florence, and his (hop the common 
rendezvous of all the, literati of that tow n. His poems, 
which moltly confift of fonnets, are of the comic and bur- 
Je.fque fpecies, but fo truly original, that many poets have 
fince endeavoured to imitate him, by com poling verfes 
alia Burchiellefca. The belt editions of his poems are 
thole of Florence,. 1552 and 1368, 8vo. Hisfoijnets were 
printed for the firfi time at Venice, 410. 1477. 
BURCKL'ERSDO 1 <b, a town of Germany, in the cir¬ 
cle of. Upper Saxony, and territory of New(tadt: two miles 
north-weft of Weyda. 1 
BUR'DA, a river of Hindooftan, which runs into the 
Godavery, Sixty miles eaft of Neermul. 
BUR'DAH, a town of Africa, near the river Gambia, 
in the kingdom of Tomani. 
BURDEGA'LA, or Bus.dig ala, anciently a town .of 
BUR SU 
Aquitania, fituated on a lake of the fea, formed by the 
mouth of the Garumna. It was a famous feat of the 
Mules, as appears by Aufonius’s book entitled Profrjfores^ 
and birth-place of Aufonius; now Bourdeaux, on the ri¬ 
ver Garonne. 
BUR'DEN, /. [lyrthen, Sax. and therefore properly 
written burthen. It is (uppofed to come from burdo, Lat. 
a mule.] A load ; fomething to be carried: 
Capiels have their provender 
Only for bearing burdens, and fore blows 
For finking under them. Shakefpeare , 
Something grievous or wearifome : 
Collid'd thou fupport 
That burden, heavier than the earth to bear? Milton. 
A birth : nozv obfolete : 
Thou haaft a wife once, call’d '/Emilia, 
That bore thee at a burden two fair fons. Shakefpeare . 
The verfe repeated in a fong; the bob; the chorus: 
At ev’ry clole (he made, th’ attending throng 
Reply’d, and bore the burden of the long. Dryden. 
“ No one knows the weight of another’s Burden.” To 
which anfwers another Epglifh proverb : “ None knoweth 
where the (hoe pincheth fo well as him that weareth it.” 
Generally ufed when people make light of others misfor¬ 
tunes, or think them not fo great qs they in reality are. 
BURDEN of a Ship, is its content, or number of tons 
it will carry. The burden of a (hip may be determined 
thus: Multiply the length of the keel, taken within 
board, by the breadth of the (hip, within board, taken 
from the mid-lhip beam, from plank to plank; and mul¬ 
tiply the pr6du6t by the depth of the hold, taken from 
the plank below the keelfon, to the under part of the up¬ 
per-deck plank ; and divide the lad.product-.by 94: the 
quotient is the content of the tonnage required. 
To BUR'DEN, v. a. To load; to incumber. —Burden 
not thyfelf above thy power. Ecclus. xiii. 2. 
BUR'DENKR,/ A loader; an oppreflor. 
BUR'DENOUS, adj. Grievous; oppreflive ; wearifome.. 
—Make no jell of that which hath fo'earneftly pierced me 
through, nor let that be light to thee which to me is fo 
burdenous. Sidney. —Ufelefs-; cumberfome: 
To what can I be ufeful, wherein ferve, 
But to fit idle on the houfehofd hearth, 
A burd’nou$ drone, to vifitants a gaze. Milton. 
BUR'DENSOME, adj. Grievous; troublefome, to be 
borne: 
Could I but live till burdenfome they prove,. 
My life would be immortal as my love. Dryden. 
. BUR'DENSO MEN ESS,/ Weight; lveavinefs; unea- 
finefs to be borne. 
BUR'DOCK,/ in botany. See Arctium and Xan- 
THIUM. 
BURD'WAN, a town of Hindooflan, .in the country of 
Bengal: fixty-two miles (outh-fouth-weft ot Moorlheda- 
bad, and fifty north-weft of Calcutta. 
BURE (Guillaume Francois de), bookfeller of Paris,, 
died July 15, 1782, had a great reputation arn'Ong' the 
book-colledtors for his knowledge in (carte books. His . 
Bibliographic Inftrudtil, or .Treatile of fcarce and extra¬ 
ordinary Books, 1763 et feq. 7 vuls. 8vo; and Mufaeum 
Typographicum, 1775, lamo, are great helps in the choice 
of books'. 
BUREAU',/. [ bureau , Fr.] A cited of'drawers with, a 
writing-board. It is pronounced as if (pelt bnro. 
BURED'GIAT (El), a town of Egypt, ten miles, weft ; 
of Menuf. ' 1 
BURE IL',, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the province 
of Caramania : ten miles fonth of Yurcup. 
BUREL'LO, a town of Italy, in the kingdom, cvf Na¬ 
ples, anti province of Calabria Ultra; .nine miles eaft of 
Nicotera,. 
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