bur's Usage Examples:

1553) was printed at London by William Copland; an Edinburgh edition, from the press of Henry Charteris, followed in 1 579.

"You probably won't—" The pulse that burst from the baton's tip dropped him.

The houses are mostly one-storeyed, built of unburned bricks, and have flat roofs.

Among the more illustrious of his pupils may be mentioned South, Dryden, Locke, Prior and Bishop Atterbury.

Thanks to its lyrical content - Franklin demands that a man better think about what he's trying to do and repeats "freedom" over and over in the chorus - the song was embraced by the burgeoning feminist movement of the time.

The fire burned brightly beneath the mantel.

I burned the other one.

GIDEON WELLES (1802-1878), American political leader, was born at Glastonbury, Connecticut, on the 1st of July 1802.

He also received the right to appoint bishops, who - except in Rome and the suburbicarian districts - were to be Italian subjects; and, with a significant exception, the exequatur, placet regium, and every form of government permission for the publication and execution of acts of ecclesiastical authority were abolished.

Often tables and chairs have little burrs that can catch your dress.

But when he filled his court with them, made them earls and bishops, and appointed one of them, Robert of Jumiges, to the archbishopric of Canterbury, his undisguised preference for strangers gave no small offence to his English subjects.

The finest cattle are of the humped variety, the bulls of the Baggara being trained to the saddle and to carry burdens.

A very curious function sometimes discharged by the antennules or antennae of Decapods is that of forming a respiratory siphon in sand-burrowing species.

Synonyms:

pericarp, seed vessel, beggar-ticks, burr, Spanish needles,

Antonyms:

iodinate, pack, calcify, ionate, charge,