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A kind of swindling game or scheme, by means of cards or by a sham lottery. [Written also bunco.] Bunko steerer, a person employed as a decoy in bunko. [Slang, U.S.]

The round knob of an antler next to a deer's head. [Commonly written burr.] Bur oak (Bot.), a useful and ornamental species of oak (Quercus macrocarpa) with ovoid acorns inclosed in deep cups imbricated with pointed scales. It grows in the Middle and Western United States, and its wood is tough, close-grained, and dura…

the genus Lota, having on the nose two very small barbels, and a larger one on the chin. [Written also burbolt.]

A pilgrim's staff. [Written also burden.] Rom. of R.

Originally, a desk or writing table with drawers for papers. Swift.

A kind of helmet. [Written also burganet.] Shak.

A kind of oatmeal pudding, or thick gruel, used by seamen. [Written also burgout.]

sparrow of California (Carpodacus frontalis); -- called also crimson-fronted bullfinch. [Written also burrion.]

mp, used for bagging; also, a finer variety of similar material, used for curtains, etc. [Written also burlaps.]

A combination cloak and hood worn by women. [Variously written bournous, bernouse, bornous, etc.]

The unwritten code of moral principles regulating the actions of the Japanese knighthood, or Samurai; the chivalry of Japan.

To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut. [Written also but.] And Barnsdale there doth butt on Don's well-watered ground. Drayton.

of bone, wood, or other material, which is made into a button by covering it with cloth. [Written also buttonmould.] Fossil buttonmolds, joints of encrinites. See Encrinite.

Private end or interest; secret purpose; selfish advantage. [Written also bye-end.] "Profit or some other by-end." L'Estrange.

T. Hughes. By the bye, in passing; by way of digression; apropos to the matter in hand. [Written also by the by.]

texture, used by the ancients. It is disputed whether it was of cotton, linen, or silk. [Written also byss and byssin.]

nstantinople; sometimes, applied to an inhabitant of the modern city of Constantinople. [ Written also Bizantine.] Byzantine church, the Eastern or Greek church, as distinguished from the Western or Roman or Latin church.See under Greek. -- Byzantine empire, the Eastern Roman or Greek empire from A.D. 364 or A.D. 395…

which each measure is a semibreve (four fourths or crotchets); for alla breve time it is written (c) The "C clef," a modification of the letter C, placed on any line of the staff, abows that line to be middle C.

The small and nearly cubical stone building, toward which all Mohammedans must pray. [Written also kaaba.]

or frail for figs, etc.; Hence, a lady's flat workbasket, reticule, or hand bag; -- often written caba. C. Bronté.