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A stupid fellow; a lubber. [Colloq.] Jonson.

A small and thick old-fashioned watch. [Colloq.]

or affections of the mind; as, the bump of "veneration;" the bump of "acquisitiveness." [Colloq.]

Self-conceited; forward; pushing. [Colloq.] Halliwell.

Conceitedness. [Colloq.]

A collection, cluster, or tuft, properly of things of the same kind, growing or fastened together; as, a bunch of grapes; a bunch of keys.

ich, when united in a bundle, no strength could bend. Goldsmith. Bundle pillar (Arch.), a column or pier, with others of small dimensions attached to it. Weale.

To go to bed in a bunk; -- sometimes with in. [Colloq. U.S.] Bartlett.

A great collection of ore without any vein coming into it or going out from it.

A thin woolen stuff, used chiefly for flags, colors, and ships' signals.

Buoys, taken collectively; a series of buoys, as for the guidance of vessels into or out of port; the providing of buoys.

ibe of beetles, of the genus Buprestis and allied genera, usually with brilliant metallic colors. The larvæ are usually bores in timber, or beneath bark, and are often very destructive to trees.

den (something heavy or objectionable). [R.] It is absurd to burden this act on Cromwell. Coleridge.

Government officials, collectively.

st prepared in Burgundy, is rare, but there are many imitations. It has a yellowish brown color, is translucent and hard, but viscous. It is used in medicinal plasters.

s tyrant fever burns me up. Shak. This dry sorrow burns up all my tears. Dryden. When the cold north wind bloweth, . . . it devoureth the mountains, and burneth the wilderness, and consumeth the Ecclus. xliii. 20, 21.

nishing machine, a machine for smoothing and polishing by compression, as in making paper collars.

A treasurer, or cash keeper; a purser; as, the bursar of a college, or of a monastery.

The treasury of a college or monastery.

bowels suddenly burst out. Shak. We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea. Coleridge. To burst upon him like an earthquake. Goldsmith.