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rs; loose, volatile matter. Fuzz ball, a kind of fungus or mushroom, which, when pressed, bursts and scatters a fine dust; a puffball.

cles, small cavities in which the ova are developed in the ovaries of mammals, and by the bursting of which they are discharged.

A loud burst of laughter, a horse laugh. "A hearty low guffaw." Carlyle.

A sudden violent burst of passion. Bacon.

A fountain on Mount Helicon in Boeotia, fabled to have burst forth when the ground was struck by the hoof of Pegasus. Also, its waters, which were supposed to impart poetic inspiration. Keats. Nor maddening draughts of Hippocrene. Longfellow.

l species of which have very beautiful flowers; -- so called because the elastic capsules burst when touched, and scatter the seeds with considerable force. Called also touch-me-not, jewelweed, and snapweed. I. Balsamina (sometimes called lady's slipper) is the common garden balsam.

A burstion inwards, as of a vessel from which the air has been exhausted; -- contrasted with explosion.

dence into belief of truth, and are often enticed into the commission of crimes'into; she burst into tears; children are sometimes frightened into fits; all persons are liable to be seduced into error and folly.

A bursting in; a sudden, violent rushing into a place; as, irruptions of the sea. Lest evil tidings, with too rude irruption Hitting thy aged ear, should pierce too deep. Milton.

To burst forth or dart, as lightning; to shine with, or like, lightning; to display a flash or flashes of lightning; to flash. This dreadful night, That thunders, lightens, opens graves, and roars As doth the lion. Shak.

ores, forming a fine dust, which is thrown out like smoke when the plant is compressed or burst; puffball.

A bursting forth; eruption; insurrection. "Mobs and outbreaks." J. H. Newman. The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind. Shak.

That which bursts forth.

A pouring out; an outburst. A passionate outgush of emotion. Thackeray.

To bend; to yield. [Obs.] It would rather burst atwo than plye. Chaucer. The willow plied, and gave way to the gust. L'Estrange.

To burst open with a pop, when heated over a fire; as, this corn pops well.

The act or state of bursting forth; a bursting out. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

rrow orifice or from confinement; to cause to come forth. When . . . Spring protrudes the bursting gems. Thomson.

To burst pot, as a bud or shoot. To push on, to drive or urge forward; to hasten. The rider pushed on at a rapid pace. Sir W. Scott.

vely, to compose one's self; to recover self-command; as, to recollect one's self after a burst of anger; -- sometimes, formerly, in the perfect participle. The Tyrian queen . . . Admired his fortunes, more admired the man; Then recollected stood. Dryden.