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A borough or incorporated town, especially, one in Scotland. See Borough.

A chief magistrate of a municipal town in Holland, Flanders, and Germany, corresponding to mayor in England and the United States; a burghmaster.

um); especially, P.Sanguisorba, the common, or garden, burnet. Burnet moth (Zoöl.), in England, a handsome moth (Zygæna filipendula), with crimson spots on the wings. -- Burnet saxifrage. (Bot.) See Saxifrage. -- Canadian burnet, a marsh plant (Poterium Canadensis). -- Great burnet, Wild burnet, Poterium (or Sanguis…

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

A scholarship or charitable foundation in a university, as in scotland; a sum given to enable a student to pursue his studies. "No woman of rank or fortune but would have a bursary in her gift." Southey.

A purse; also, a vesicle; a pod; a hull. [Obs.] Holland.

A sudden opening, as of landscape; a stretch; an expanse. [R.] "A fine burst of country." Jane Austen.

day, the chief house of a manor, or the lord's seat, is called bury, in some parts of England. Miege.

To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush; as, to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground.

A duty 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.

A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field. The hay was growing upon headlands and butts in cornfields. Burrill.

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

d-leaved plant (Petasites vulgaris) of the Composite family, said to have been used in England for wrapping up pats of butter.

the Epinephelus punctatus of the southern coast, the rock eel, and the kelpfish of New Zealand.

as an imitation of butter. The manufacturers ship large quantities of oleomargarine to England, Holland, and other countries, to be manufactured into butter, which is sold as butterine or suine. Johnson's Cyc.

A genus of low herbs (Pinguicula) having simple leaves which secrete from their glandular upper surface a viscid fluid, to which insects adhere, after which the margin infolds and the insects are digested by the plant. The species are found mostly in the North Temperate zone.

On; along; in traversing. Compare 5. Long labors both by sea and land he bore. Dryden. By land, by water, they renew the charge. Pope.

e bye.] The Synod of Dort condemneth upon the bye even the discipline of the Church of England. Fuller.

An ancient Spanish land tenure similar to the English knight's fee; hence, in Spain and countries settled by the Spanish, a land measure of varying size. In Cuba it is about 33 acres; in Porto Rico, about 194 acres; in the Southwestern United States, about 108 acres.

Of or pertaining to landed property. Cadastral survey, or Cadastral map, a survey, map, or plan on a large scale (Usually topographical map, which exaggerates the dimensions of houses and the breadth of roads and streams, for the sake of distinctness. Brande & C.