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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 a seed vessel having hooks or prickles Also any weed which bears burs...
Bur fish
A spinose plectognath fish of the Allantic coast of the United States esp Chilo mycterus geometricus having the power of distending its body with water or air so as to resemble a chestnut bur called also ball fish balloon fish and swellfish...
Burring machine
A machine for cleansing wool of burs seeds and other substances...
Burry
Abounding in burs or containing burs resembling burs as burry wool...
burgle
burgle bur·gled bur·gling : burglarize ...
abstention
abstention : the staying of the exercise of federal jurisdiction in a case that involves a question of state law or policy which the federal court prefers to have resolved by a state court or agency Bur·ford abstention [bər-fərd-] : an abstention grounded on the involvement in the federal case of a challenge to the exercise of a usually complex state administrative function Col·o·ra·do Riv·er abstention [kÄ -lə-ra-dō-, -rÄ -] : an abstention grounded esp. on the involvement in the federal case of questions of state concern that are also at issue in a parallel case in state court Pull·man abstention [pl-mən-] : an abstention grounded on the involvement in the federal case of the interpretation of an ambiguously worded state law whose constitutionality would have to be determined by the federal court NOTE: A party to a case subjected to a Pullman abstention may reserve the right to return to federal court once the st...
burglary
burglary pl: -glar·ies [Anglo-French burglarie, modification of Medieval Latin burgaria, from burgare to break into (a house)] : the act of breaking and entering an inhabited structure (as a house) esp. at night with intent to commit a felony (as murder or larceny) ;also : the act of entering or remaining unlawfully (as after closing to the public) in a building with intent to commit a crime (as a felony) NOTE: The crime of burglary was originally defined under the common law to protect people, since there were other laws (as those defining larceny and trespass) that protected property. State laws have broadened the common-law crime. Entering at night is often no longer required and may be considered an aggravating factor. The building may be something other than a dwelling, such as a store or pharmacy. Some states (as Louisiana) have included vehicles under their burglary statute. There are degrees of burglary, and some of the usual aggravating factors are the presence of pe...
reimburse
reimburse -bursed -burs·ing 1 : to pay back (a sum lost or expended) to someone [will the court costs] 2 : to make restoration or payment of an equivalent to [ the employee for travel expenses] re·im·burse·ment n ...
balloonfish
A fish of the genus Diodon such as Diodon holocanthus or the genus Tetraodon having the power of distending its body by taking air or water into its dilatable esophagus It is similar to but smaller than the porcupinefish See Globefish and Bur fish...
Beggars ticks
The bur marigold Bidens and its achenes which are armed with barbed awns and adhere to clothing and fleeces with unpleasant tenacity also called beggar ticks...
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