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91bur|ble — «BUR buhl», verb, bled, bling, noun. –v.i. 1. to make a bubbling noise. 2. to speak in a confused, excited manner. –n. 1. a bubble; bubbling. 2. Aeronautics. an induced turbulence of the air around a wing or other airfoil, especially when the… …
92bur|bly — «BUR blee», adjective. 1. full of bubbles; bubbly. 2. turbulent …
93bur|bot — «BUR buht», noun, plural bots or (collectively) bot. a freshwater fish related to the cod, having an elongated, slender body, and one barbel on the chin and two on the nose; eelpout. ╂[< Middle French bourbette, altered < barbote < barbe …
94Bur|chell's zebra — «BUR chuhlz», = dauw. (Cf. ↑dauw) ╂[< William Burchell, an English naturalist of the 1800 s] …
95bur´eau|crat´i|cal|ly — bur|eau|crat|ic «BYUR uh KRAT ihk», adjective. 1. having to do with a bureaucracy or a bureaucrat: »Big business, big foundations and big education easily slip into a bureaucratic routine (Wall Street Journal). 2. arbitrary: »a bureaucratic… …
96bur|eau|crat|ic — «BYUR uh KRAT ihk», adjective. 1. having to do with a bureaucracy or a bureaucrat: »Big business, big foundations and big education easily slip into a bureaucratic routine (Wall Street Journal). 2. arbitrary: »a bureaucratic decision against… …
97bur|gall — «BUR gl», noun. = bergall. (Cf. ↑bergall) …
98bur|gee — «BUR jee», noun. 1. a small, swallow tailed flag or pennant, used in the international code of flag signals and as a distinguishing flag on merchant ships and yachts. 2. a kind of small coal used for burning in the furnaces of engines. ╂[origin… …
99bur|geon — «BUR juhn», verb, noun. –v.i. 1. to bud; grow or shoot forth; sprout. 2. Figurative. to grow or develop rapidly; flourish: »New suburbs burgeoned all around the city. –v.t. to shoot out; put forth as buds. –n. a bud; sprout. Also, bourgeon …
100bur|gess — «BUR jihs», noun. 1. a member of the lower house of the colonial legislature in Virginia or Maryland. 2. British. a citizen of a borough. 3. (formerly) a representative of a borough, corporate town, or university in the British Parliament. ╂[< …
