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.
Syn. — Mockery; farce; travesty; mimicry.
Burlesque
(Bur*lesque") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Burlesqued ; p. pr. & vb. n. Burlesquing ] To ridicule,
or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation in action or in language.
They burlesqued the prophet Jeremiah's words, and turned the expression he used into ridicule.
Stillingfleet.
Burlesque
(Bur*lesque"), v. i. To employ burlesque.
Burlesquer
(Bur*les"quer) n. One who burlesques.
Burletta
(||Bur*let"ta) n. [It., dim. of burla mockery. See Burlesque, a.] (Mus.) A comic operetta; a
music farce. Byron.
Burliness
(Bur"li*ness) n. Quality of being burly.
Burly
(Bur"ly) a. [OE. burlich strong, excellent; perh. orig. fit for a lady's bower, hence handsome, manly,
stout. Cf. Bower.]
1. Having a large, strong, or gross body; stout; lusty; — now used chiefly of human beings, but formerly
of animals, in the sense of stately or beautiful, and of inanimate things that were huge and bulky. "Burly
sacks." Drayton.
In his latter days, with overliberal diet, [he was] somewhat corpulent and burly.
Sir T. More.
Burly and big, and studious of his ease.
Cowper.
2. Coarse and rough; boisterous.
It was the orator's own burly way of nonsense.
Cowley.
Burman
(Bur"man) n.; pl. Burmans ["The softened modern M'yan-ma, M'yan-ma [native name] is the
source of the European corruption Burma." Balfour.], (Ethnol.) A member of the Burman family, one
of the four great families Burmah; also, sometimes, any inhabitant of Burmah; a Burmese. — a. Of or
pertaining to the Burmans or to Burmah.
Bur marigold
(Bur" mar"i*gold) See Beggar's ticks.
Burmese
(Bur`mese") a. Of or pertaining to Burmah, or its inhabitants. — n. sing. & pl. A native or
the natives of Burmah. Also the language of the Burmans.
Burn
(Burn) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Burned or Burnt ; p. pr. & vb. n. Burning.] [OE. bernen, brennen,
v. t., early confused with beornen, birnen, v. i., AS. bærnan, bernan, v. t., birnan, v. i.; akin to OS.
brinnan, OFries. barna, berna, OHG. brinnan, brennan, G. brennen, OD. bernen, D. branden, Dan.
brænde, Sw. bränna, brinna, Icel. brenna, Goth. brinnan, brannjan and possibly to E. fervent.]
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." Shak.
