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Either one of the Bears. See the Phrases below. Ursa Major Etym: [L.], the Great Bear, one of the most conspicuous of the northern constellations. It is situated near the pole, and contains the stars which form the Dipper, or Charles's Wain, two of which are the Pointers, or stars which point towards the North Star. -…

The ursine seal. See the Note under 1st Seal.

Any sac or saclike cavity; especially, one of the synovial sacs, or small spaces, often lined with synovial membrane, interposed between tendons and bony prominences.

Of or pertaining to a bursa or to bursæ.

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

The office of a bursar.

to enable a student to pursue his studies. "No woman of rank or fortune but would have a bursary in her gift." Southey.

The act of running about; also, rambling language. [Obs.] Barrow.

A public hall or room, for the use of visitors at watering places and health resorts in Germany.

Displayed with the back toward the spectator; -- said especially of an eagle.

Capable of being repaid; repayable. A loan has been made of two millions of dollars, reimbursable in ten years. A. Hamilton.

apel of ease; tributary. [R.] Not a city was without its cathedral, surrounded by its succursal churches, its monasteries, and convents. Milman.

A wound healed or healing outwardly only. [Obs.] Of a sursanure In surgery is perilous the cure. Chaucer.

That can be passed over in a single course; -- said of a curve when the coördinates of the point on the curve can be expressed as rational algebraic functions of a single parameter th.

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 Semitic…

ns in the northern hemisphere, called respectively the Great Bear and the Lesser Bear, or Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.

Inflammation of a bursa.

The group of seven stars, commonly called the Dipper, in the constellation Ursa Major, or Great Bear. See Ursa major, under Ursa.

called from their arrangement in the form of a dipper; -- called also Charles's Wain. See Ursa Major, under Ursa.

e rooms. Housemaid's knee (Med.), a swelling over the knee, due to an enlargement of the bursa in the front of the kneepan; -- so called because frequently occurring in servant girls who work upon their knees.