Search the Dictionary

mmonly 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 durable. -- Bur reed (Bot.), a plant of the genus Spargan…

An advocate for , or supporter of, bureaucracy.

To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection.

in 1815) to support liberal ideas, or the organization formed by the affiliation of the local bodies. The organization was suppressed by the government in 1819, but was secretly revived, and is now openly maintained as a social organization, the restrictive laws having been repealed prior to

h African antelope (Tragelaphus sylvaticus); -- so called because found mainly in wooden localities. The name is also applied to other species. -- Bush cat (Zoöl.), the serval. See Serval. -- Bush chat (Zoöl.), a bird of the genus Pratincola, of the Thrush family. -- Bush dog. (Zoöl.) See Potto. -- Bush hammer. See…

A tailor's assistant for repairing garments; -- called also busheler. [Local, U.S.]

An inflammable gaseous hydrocarbon, C4H10, of the marsh gas, or paraffin, series.

The nut of the Caryocar butyrosum and C. nuciferum, of S. America; -- called also Souari nut.

, narrow leaves, and flowers in dense heads. -- Button tree (Bot.), a genus of trees (Conocarpus), furnishing durable timber, mostly natives of the West Indies. -- To hold by the button, to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; to buttonhole.

Any one of three metameric hydrocarbons, C4H8, of the ethylene series. They are gaseous or easily liquefiable.

A local or subordinate law; a private law or regulation made by a corporation for its own government. There was likewise a law to restrain the by-laws, or ordinances of corporations. Bacon. The law or institution; to which are added two by-laws, as a comment upon the general law. Addison.

A small cañon; a narrow valley or glen; also, but less frequently, an open valley. [Local, Western U. S.]

uid, obtained by destructive distillation of the inner wood of the cade. It is used as a local application in skin diseases.

om, as Cæsar or emperor, it has been committed by the popular will; imperialism; also, advocacy or support of such a system of government.

A prison; a jail. [Local, U. S.]

A curved ridge in the floor of the leteral ventricle of the brain; the calcar avis, hippocampus minor, or ergot.

To plan; to expect; to think. [Local, U. S.]

A divine vocation or summons. St. Paul himself believed he did well, and that he had a call to it, when he persecuted the Christians. Locke.

A summoning or convocation, as of Parliament. The frequent calling and meeting of Parlaiment. Macaulay.

chid, having a flower variegated with purple, pink, and yellow. It grows in cold and wet localities in the northern part of the United States. The Calypso borealis is the only orchid which reaches 68º N.