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BURR, BURRH, _s._ The whirring sound made by some people in p.r.o.nouncing the letter _r_; as by the inhabitants of Northumberland, S.

_Statist. Acc._

This word seems formed from the sound.

BURRA, _s._ The most common kind of rush, Orkn.; there the Juncus squarrosus.

BURRACH'D, _part. pa._ Inclosed.

V. ~Bowrach'd.~

_To_ BURRIE, _v. a._ To overpower in working, to overcome in striving at work, S. B.

Allied perhaps to Fr. _bourrer_, Isl. _ber-ia_, to beat.

BURRY, _adj._

_Henrysone._

Either rough, s.h.a.ggy, from Fr. _bourru_, ”flockie, hairie, rugged,”

Cotgr. or savage, cruel, from Fr. _bourreau_, an executioner.

V. ~Burio~.

BURROWE-MAIL,

V. ~Mail~.

BURSAR, _s._ One who receives the benefit of an endowment in a college, for bearing his expences during his education there, S.

_Buik of Discipline_.

L. B. _Bursar-ius_, a scholar supported by a pension; Fr.

_boursier_, id. from L. B. _bursa_, an ark, Fr. _bourse_, a purse.

_Bourse_ also signifies ”the place of a pensioner in a college,” Cotgr.

~Bursary~, ~Burse~, _s._ The endowment given to a student in a university, an exhibition, S.

_Statist. Acc._

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