| burlesque | 1. Ludicrous representation; exaggerated parody; grotesque satire. "Burlesque is therefore of two kinds; the first represents mean persons in the accouterments of heroes, the other describes great persons acting and speaking like the basest among the people." (Addison) 2. An ironical or satirical composition intended to excite laughter, or to ridicule anything. "The dull burlesque appeared with impudence, And pleased by novelty in spite of sense." (Dryden) 3. A ludicrous imitation; a caricature; a travesty; a gross perversion. "Who is it that admires, and from the heart is attached to, national representative assemblies, but must turn with horror and disgust from such a profane burlesque and abominable perversion of that sacred institute?" (Burke) Synonym: Mockery, farce, travesty, mimicry. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| Burlew disk | An abrasive-impregnated rubber wheel used in dentistry for polishing. Synonym: Burlew wheel. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Burlew wheel | An abrasive-impregnated rubber wheel used in dentistry for polishing. Synonym: Burlew wheel. (05 Mar 2000) |
| burman | Origin: "The softened modern M'yan-ma, M'yan-ma [native name] is the source of the European corruption Burma. <ethnology> "], A member of the Burman family, one of the four great families Burmah; also, sometimes, any inhabitant of Burmah; a Burmese. Of or pertaining to the Burmans or to Burmah. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| burn | 1. A hurt, injury, or effect caused by fire or excessive or intense heat. 2. The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking; as, they have a good burn. 3. A disease in vegetables. See Brand. 1. To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood. "We'll burn his body in the holy place." 2. To injure by fire or heat; to change destructively some property or properties of, by undue exposure to fire or heat; to scorch; to scald; to blister; to singe; to char; to sear; as, to burn steel in forging; to burn one's face in the sun; the sun burns the grass. 3. To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some property or properties of, by exposure to fire or heat in due degree for obtaining a desired residuum, product, or effect; to bake; as, to burn clay in making bricks or pottery; to burn wood so as to produce charcoal; to burn limestone for the lime. 4. To make or produce, as an effect or result, by the application of fire or heat; as, to burn a hole; to burn charcoal; to burn letters into a block. 5. To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does; as, to burn the mouth with pepper. "This tyrant fever burns me up." (Shak) "This dry sorrow burns up all my tears." (Dryden) "When the cold north wind bloweth, . . . It devoureth the mountains, and burneth the wilderness, and consumeth the ass as fire." (Ecclus. Xliii. 20, 21) 6. <surgery> To apply a cautery to; to cauterize. 7. <chemistry> To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize; as, a man burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration; to burn iron in oxygen. <engineering> To burn, To burn together, as two surfaces of metal, to fuse and unite them by pouring over them a quantity of the same metal in a liquid state. To burn a bowl, to displace it accidentally, the bowl so displaced being said to be burned. To burn daylight, to light candles before it is dark; to waste time; to perform superfluous actions. To burn one's fingers, to get one's self into unexpected trouble, as by interfering the concerns of others, speculation, etc. To burn out, to destroy or obliterate by burning. "Must you with hot irons burn out mine eyes?" . To be burned out, to suffer loss by fire, as the burning of one's house, store, or shop, with the contents. To burn up, To burn down, to burn entirely. Origin: OE. Bernen, brennen, v.t, early confused with beornen, birnen, v.i, AS. Baernan, bernan, v.t, birnan, v.i.; akin to OS. Brinnan, OFries. Barna, berna, OHG. Brinnan, brennan, G. Brennen, OD. Bernen, D. Branden, Dan. Braende, Sw. Branna, brinna, Icel. Brenna, Goth. Brinnan, brannjan (in comp), and possibly to E. Fervent. 1. To be of fire; to flame. "The mount burned with fire." 2. To suffer from, or be scorched by, an excess of heat. "Your meat doth burn, quoth I." (Shak) 3. To have a condition, quality, appearance, sensation, or emotion, as if on fire or excessively heated; to act or rage with destructive violence; to be in a state of lively emotion or strong desire; as, the face burns; to burn with fever. "Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way?" (Luke xxiv. 32) "The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water." (Shak) "Burning with high hope." (Byron) "The groan still deepens, and the combat burns." (Pope) "The parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire." (Milton) 4. <chemistry> To combine energetically, with evolution of heat; as, copper burns in chlorine. 5. In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought. To burn out, to burn till the fuel is exhausted. To burn up, To burn down, to be entirely consumed. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Burn and Rand theory | That stimulation of sympathetic fibres results first in the production of acetylcholine in the postganglionic nerve endings, which then release norepinephrine to act on the active site of the effector cell. (05 Mar 2000) |
| burn units | Specialised hospital facilities which provide intensive care for burn patients. (12 Dec 1998) |
| burner | 1. One who, or that which, burns or sets fire to anything. 2. The part of a lamp, gas fixture, etc, where the flame is produced. <chemistry> Bunsen's burner, a kind of burner, invented by Professor Bunsen of Heidelberg, consisting of a straight tube, four or five inches in length, having small holes for the entrance of air at the bottom. Illuminating gas being also admitted at the bottom, a mixture of gas and air is formed which burns at the top with a feebly luminous but intensely hot flame. Argand burner, Rose burner, etc. See Argand, Rose, etc. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| burner syndrome | <syndrome> Multiple episodes of upper extremity burning pain, sometimes accompanied by shoulder girdle weakness, experienced during contact sports, especially football, with each forceful blow to the head or shoulder; attributed to an upper trunk brachial plexopathy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| burners | Episodes of upper extremity burning pain. See: burner syndrome. Synonym: stingers. (05 Mar 2000) |
| burnet | <botany> A genus of perennial herbs (Poterium); especially, P.Sanguisorba, the common, or garden, burnet. <zoology> Burnet moth, in England, a handsome moth (Zygaena filipendula), with crimson spots on the wings. Burnet saxifrage. <botany> See Saxifrage. Canadian burnet, a marsh plant (Poterium Canadensis). Great burnet, Wild burnet, Poterium (or Sanguisorba) oficinalis. Origin: OE. Burnet burnet; also, brownish (the plant perh. Being named from its colour), fr. F. Brunet, dim. Of brun brown; cf. OF. Brunete a sort of flower. See Brunette. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Burnett's syndrome | <syndrome> A form of metabolic acidosis that can result from the excessive consumption of milk (calcium) and antacids (sodium bicarbonate) over a prolonged period of time. This can result in calcium deposits in the kidneys and body tissues. Symptoms include nausea, vomiting and weakness. May be seen as a complication of peptic ulcer therapy. (27 Sep 1997) |
| Burnett, Charles | <person> U.S. Physician, 1901-1967. See: Burnett's syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| burnettize | To subject (wood, fabrics, etc) to a process of saturation in a solution of chloride of zinc, to prevent decay; a process invented by Sir William Burnett. Origin: Burnettized; . Burnettizing. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| burning | 1. That burns; being on fire; excessively hot; fiery. 2. Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful; as, burning zeal. "Like a young hound upon a burning scent. <botany>" (Dryden) Burning bush, an ornamental shrub (Euonymus atropurpureus), bearing a crimson berry. The act of consuming by fire or heat, or of subjecting to the effect of fire or heat; the state of being on fire or excessively heated. Burning fluid, any volatile illuminating oil, as the lighter petroleums (naphtha, benzine), or oil of turpentine (camphine), but especially. A mixture of the latter with alcohol. Burning glass, a conxex lens of considerable size, used for producing an intense heat by converging the sun's rays to a focus. <chemistry> Burning house, the furnace in which tin ores are calcined, to sublime the sulphur and arsenic from the pyrites. Weale. Burning mirror, a concave mirror, or a combination of plane mirrors, used for the same purpose as a burning glass. Synonym: Combustion, fire, conflagration, flame, blaze. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
Synonyms : Burn
Synonyms : Chemical Burns, Burn, Chemical, Chemical Burn
Synonyms : Burn, Electric, Electric Burn
Synonyms : Burn, Inhalation, Inhalation Burn
Synonyms : Fabricius Bursa
| Burow's vein |
an inconstant vessel formed by the two inferior epigastric veins and a branch from the bladder; it joins the portal vein.
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| bursal cyst |
a cyst derived from a serous bursa.
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| bursting fracture |
a comminuted fracture of the distal phalanx; called also tuft f.
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| bursitis |
Bursitis is the inflammation of one or more bursa, or small sacks of oil, in the body. The bursa rest at the points where internal functionaries, like muscles and tendons, slide across bone. In the bursa’s proper state, they create a smooth and almost frictionless surface over which to glide. With hundreds of them throughout the body they provide this surface for all human motion, making movement ideally painless. ...
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| burst |
A sudden increase in brightness along the path of a meteor.
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| bur | the bureau of the Commerce Department responsible for taking the census |
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| bur | nonelective government officials |
| bur | an official of a bureaucracy |
| bur | of or relating to or resembling a bureaucrat or bureaucracy |
| bur | needlessly time-consuming procedure |
| bur | with respect to bureaucracy |
| bur | in a bureaucratic manner |
| bur | nonelective government officials |
| bur | measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube with a tap at the bottom |
| bur | measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube with a tap at the bottom |
| bur | colloquial American term for a town |
| bur | grow and flourish |