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Burr

noun
1.
Seed vessel having hooks or prickles.  Synonym: bur.
2.
Rough projection left on a workpiece after drilling or cutting.
3.
United States politician who served as vice president under Jefferson; he mortally wounded his political rival Alexander Hamilton in a duel and fled south (1756-1836).  Synonym: Aaron Burr.
4.
Rotary file for smoothing rough edges left on a workpiece.
5.
Small bit used in dentistry or surgery.  Synonym: bur.
verb
(past & past part. burred; pres. part. burring)
1.
Remove the burrs from.  Synonym: bur.



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"Burr" Quotes from Famous Books



... swelling and broadening the line under pressure. A thin dry line may be obtained by turning the pen over and drawing with the back of the nib, although if the pen so used be worn it is apt to have a "burr" over the point that may prevent its working satisfactorily in this way. A new hard pen is likely to be the cause of a "niggling" line; a too limber one of a careless or undesirably broad line. On rare occasions, and for obtaining ...
— Letters and Lettering - A Treatise With 200 Examples • Frank Chouteau Brown
... the result that the surface of the ovum speedily loses its smooth, regular outline. Projections from the capsule appear; they increase in number and in length; and by the end of four weeks the ovum, as yet less than an inch in diameter, resembles a miniature chestnut-burr. To make the comparison more accurate, we must imagine such a burr covered with limp threads instead ...
— The Prospective Mother - A Handbook for Women During Pregnancy • J. Morris Slemons
... him sourly. "The Brunswick-Balke people never turned out anything half so round and half so hard. That burr of yours is a curio. I told you Chiquita was small and beautiful and dainty and—Oh, what's the use! This dame is a truck-horse. She's the color of ...
— The Ne'er-Do-Well • Rex Beach
... please, ma'am," answered Billy Burr serenely, "it's not my donkey. That's why he won't go, ma'am! It's Dickie Lowe's donkey, but he's got a cold and he had to save up for to-night, ma'am, to sing in the Stainer. Whoa—there—get on, you! ...
— The Girls of St. Olave's • Mabel Mackintosh
... Burr contributes an exhaustive paper on hemiatrophy of the tongue with report of a case as follows: "L. B., female, mulatto, thirty-one years old, married, came to the Medico-Chirurgical Hospital, Philadelphia, ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould


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