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- English Word Burked Definition of Burke
- English Word Burking Definition of Burke
- English Word Burkism Definition The practice of killing persons for the purpose of selling their bodies for dissection.
- English Word Burl Definition To dress or finish up (cloth); to pick knots, burs, loose threads, etc., from, as in finishing cloth.
- English Word Burl Definition A knot or lump in thread or cloth.
- English Word Burl Definition An overgrown knot, or an excrescence, on a tree; also, veneer made from such excrescences.
- English Word Burlap Definition A coarse fabric, made of jute or hemp, used for bagging; also, a finer variety of similar material, used for curtains, etc.
- English Word Burled Definition of Burl
- English Word Burler Definition One who burls or dresses cloth.
- English Word Burlesque Definition Tending to excite laughter or contempt by extravagant images, or by a contrast between the subject and the manner of treating it, as when a trifling subject is treated with mock gravity; jocular; ironical.
- English Word Burlesque Definition Ludicrous representation; exaggerated parody; grotesque satire.
- English Word Burlesque Definition An ironical or satirical composition intended to excite laughter, or to ridicule anything.
- English Word Burlesque Definition A ludicrous imitation; a caricature; a travesty; a gross perversion.
- English Word Burlesque Definition To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation in action or in language.
- English Word Burlesque Definition To employ burlesque.
- English Word Burlesqued Definition of Burlesque
- English Word Burlesquer Definition One who burlesques.
- English Word Burlesquing Definition of Burlesque
- English Word Burletta Definition A comic operetta; a music farce.
- English Word Burliness Definition Quality of being burly.