BPage 473
- English Word Burnish Definition To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper.
- English Word Burnish Definition To shine forth; to brighten; to become smooth and glossy, as from swelling or filling out; hence, to grow large.
- English Word Burnish Definition The effect of burnishing; gloss; brightness; luster.
- English Word Burnished Definition of Burnish
- English Word Burnisher Definition One who burnishes.
- English Word Burnisher Definition A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses.
- English Word Burnishing Definition of Burnish
- English Word Burnoose Definition Alt. of Burnous
- English Word Burnous Definition A cloaklike garment and hood woven in one piece, worn by Arabs.
- English Word Burnous Definition A combination cloak and hood worn by women.
- English Word Burnstickle Definition A stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).
- English Word Burnt Definition of Burn
- English Word Burnt Definition Consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried, as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun.
- English Word Burr Definition Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and burdock. Also, any weed which bears burs.
- English Word Burr Definition The thin ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal. See Burr, n., 2.
- English Word Burr Definition A ring of iron on a lance or spear. See Burr, n., 4.
- English Word Burr Definition The lobe of the ear. See Burr, n., 5.
- English Word Burr Definition The sweetbread.
- English Word Burr Definition A clinker; a partially vitrified brick.
- English Word Burr Definition A small circular saw.