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A genus of perennial herbs (Poterium); 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,…

in a solution of chloride of zinc, to prevent decay; -- a process invented by Sir William Burnett.

To renounce on oath. Bp. Burnet.

An onset, attack, or fit of disease. The first access looked like an apoplexy. Burnet.

he act of informing or notifying; notification. [Archaic] An advertisement of danger. Bp. Burnet.

Tending to affect; affecting. [Obs.] Burnet.

nd trees. Tyndall. The formation of the first earth being a piece of divine architecture. Burnet. Military architecture, the art of fortifications. -- Naval architecture, the art of building ships.

Craftily; artfully. [Obs.] Sharp dissembled so artificially. Bp. Burnet.

w. "The aspect of affairs." Macaulay. The true aspect of a world lying in its rubbish. T. Burnet.

To be arrogant or pretentious; to claim more than is due. Bp. Burnet.

To call from or back again. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.

The whole body of barons or peers. The baronage of the kingdom. Bp. Burnet.

put a pair of iron boots close on the leg, and drive wedges between them and the leg. Bp. Burnet.

train; -- sometimes followed by up. But no care was taken to breed him a Protestant. Bp. Burnet. His farm may not remove his children too far from him, or the trade he breeds them up in. Locke.

my tears. Dryden. When the cold north wind bloweth, . . . it devoureth the mountains, and burneth the wilderness, and consumeth the Ecclus. xliii. 20, 21.

The quality of being canonical; canonicity. Bp. Burnet.

h, in six several cantons, the several parts of our Savior's passion are represented. Bp. Burnet.

ent. With special capitulation that neither the Scots nor the French shall refortify. Bp. Burnet.

security. He hated Barnevelt, for his getting the cautionary towns out of his hands. Bp. Burnet.

To unite or cause to adhere by means of a cement. Bp. Burnet.