1. A sudden breaking forth; a violent rending; an explosion; as, a burst of thunder; a burst of applause; a
burst of passion; a burst of inspiration.
Bursts of fox-hunting melody.
W. Irving.
2. Any brief, violent exertion or effort; a spurt; as, a burst of speed.
3. A sudden opening, as of landscape; a stretch; an expanse. [R.] "A fine burst of country." Jane Austen.
4. A rupture or hernia; a breach.
Bursten
(Burst"en) p. p. of Burst, v. i. [Obs.]
Burster
(Burst"er) n. One that bursts.
Burstwort
(Burst"wort`) n. (Bot.) A plant (Herniaria glabra) supposed to be valuable for the cure of
hernia or rupture.
Burt
(Burt) n. (Zoöl.) See Birt. [Prov. Eng.]
Burthen
(Bur"then) n. & v. t. See Burden. [Archaic]
Burton
(Bur"ton) n. [Cf. OE. & Prov. E. bort to press or indent anything.] (Naut.) A peculiar tackle,
formed of two or more blocks, or pulleys, the weight being suspended to a hook block in the bight of the
running part.
Bury
(Bur"y) n. [See 1st Borough.]
1. A borough; a manor; as, the Bury of St. Edmond's; — used as a termination of names of places; as,
Canterbury, Shrewsbury.
2. A manor house; a castle. [Prov. Eng.]
To this very day, the chief house of a manor, or the lord's seat, is called bury, in some parts of England.
Miege.
Bury
(Bur"y) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Buried ; p. pr. & vb. n. Burying ] [OE. burien, birien, berien, AS.
byrgan; akin to beorgan to protect, OHG. bergan, G. bergen, Icel. bjarga, Sw. berga, Dan. bierge,
Goth. baírgan. &radic95. Cf. Burrow.]
1. To cover out of sight, either by heaping something over, or by placing within something, as earth,
etc.; to conceal by covering; to hide; as, to bury coals in ashes; to bury the face in the hands.
And all their confidence
Under the weight of mountains buried deep.
Milton.
2. Specifically: To cover out of sight, as the body of a deceased person, in a grave, a tomb, or the ocean; to
deposit (a corpse) in its resting place, with funeral ceremonies; to inter; to inhume.
Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
Matt. viii. 21.
I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave.
Shak.
3. To hide in oblivion; to put away finally; to abandon; as, to bury strife.
Give me a bowl of wine
In this I bury all unkindness, Cassius.
Shak.
Burying beetle (Zoöl.), the general name of many species of beetles, of the tribe Necrophaga; the sexton
beetle; — so called from their habit of burying small dead animals by digging away the earth beneath
