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A small marine fish; -- also called cunner.

rgesses profess "the true religion professed within the realm"), the opposite party being called antiburghers.

An officer who directs and lays out the meres or boundaries for the workmen; -- called also bailiff, and barmaster. [Eng.]

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

f, a goat, or a sheep; or some vegetable substance, as bread, or ears of wheat or barley. Called also burnt sacrifice. [2 Sam. xxiv. 22.]

the extremity of the soft palate against the back part of the tongue; rotacism; -- often called the Newcastle, Northumberland, or Tweedside, burr.

A sort of pear, called also the red butter pear, from its smooth, delicious, soft pulp.

castle. [Prov. Eng.] To this very day, the chief house of a manor, or the lord's seat, is called bury, in some parts of England. Miege.

or Bush goat (Zoöl.), a beautiful South 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.…

The iron lining in the nave of a wheel. [Eng.] In the United States it is called a box. See 4th Bush.

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

A bush or lining; -- sometimes called . See 4th Bush.

or cushion worn on the back below the waist, by women, to give fullness to the skirts; -- called also bishop, and tournure.

of two shillings on every tun of wine imported into England by merchant strangers; -- so called because paid to the king's butler for the king. Blackstone.

re the ends of two objects come squarely together without scrafing or chamfering; -- also called butt joint.

a yellow flower. -- Butter print, a piece of carved wood used to mark pats of butter; -- called also butter stamp. Locke. -- Butter tooth, either of the two middle incisors of the upper jaw. -- Butter tree (Bot.), a tree of the genus Bassia, the seeds of which yield a substance closely resembling butter. The butter…

The rice bunting or bobolink; -- so called in the island of Jamaica.

e genus Ranunculus, or crowfoot, particularly R. bulbosus, with bright yellow flowers; -- called also butterflower, golden cup, and kingcup. It is the cuckoobud of Shakespeare.

An American tree (Juglans cinerea) of the Walnut family, and its edible fruit; -- so called from the oil contained in the latter. Sometimes called oil nut and white walnut.

grain, as the joints which the struts and braces form with the truss posts; -- sometimes called abutting joint.