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4 words match “BURSAR”

BURSAR n. 2 definitions
A treasurer, or cash keeper; a purser; as, the bursar of a college, or of a monastery.
BURSARSHIP n.
The office of a bursar.
BURSARY n. 2 definitions
to enable a student to pursue his studies. "No woman of rank or fortune but would have a bursary in her gift." Southey.
B n.
letters representing sounds having a close organic affinity to its own sound; as in Eng. bursar and purser; Eng. bear and Lat. pear; Eng. silver and Ger. silber; Lat. cubitum and It. gomito; Eng. seven, Anglo-Saxon seofon, Ger. sieben, Lat. septem, Gr.ptan. The form of letter B is Roman, from Greek B (Beta), of Semiti…