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e graver, in plowing furrows in the surface of the copper, raises corresponding ridges or burrs. Tomlinson.

See Buhrstone.

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

The botfly or gadfly of cattle (Hypoderma bovis). See Gadfly.

A mixture of shot, nails, stones, pieces of old iron, etc., fired from a cannon at short range, in an emergency. [R.]

A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.

A donkey. [Southern U.S.]

A small weir or dam in a river to direct the stream to gaps where fish traps are placed. Knight.

this vermin of court reporters, when they are forced into day upon one point, are sure to burrow in another. Burke. Burrowing owl (Zoöl.), a small owl of the western part of North America (Speotyto cunicularia), which lives in holes, often in company with the prairie dog.

One who, or that which, burrows; an animal that makes a hole under ground and lives in it.

See Buhrstone.

Abounding in burs, or containing burs; resembling burs; as, burry wool.

Same as Anbury.

The thin ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal. See Burr, n., 2.

The wild Himalayan, or blue, sheep (Ovis burrhel).

To force from a burrow; to unearth.

genus Orycteropus, somewhat resembling a pig, common in some parts of Southern Africa. It burrows in the ground, and feeds entirely on ants, which it catches with its long, slimy tongue.

One who makes an affidavit. [U. S.] Burrill.

claration in writing, signed and made upon oath before an authorized magistrate. Bouvier. Burrill.

t, upon her divorce or legal separation from him, or during a suit for the same. Wharton. Burrill.