Index of English words, starting with "bu"

(1) - Burden (n.) A club.
(2) - Burden (n.) The drone of a bagpipe.
(3) - Burden (n.) The verse repeated in a song, or the return of the theme at the end of each stanza; the chorus; refrain. Hence: That which is often repeated or which is dwelt upon; the main topic; as, the burden of a prayer.
(4) - Burden (v. t.) To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).
(5) - Burden (v. t.) To oppress with anything grievous or trying; to overload; as, to burden a nation with taxes.
(6) - Burden (v. t.) To encumber with weight (literal or figurative); to lay a heavy load upon; to load.
(7) - Burden (n.) A birth.
(8) - Burden (n.) A fixed quantity of certain commodities; as, a burden of gad steel, 120 pounds.
(9) - Burden (n.) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
(10) - Burden (n.) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
(11) - Burden (n.) The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry; as, a ship of a hundred tons burden.
(12) - Burden (n.) That which is borne with labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
(13) - Burden (n.) That which is borne or carried; a load.

(1) - Burdensome (a.) Grievous to be borne; causing uneasiness or fatigue; oppressive.

(1) - Burdock (n.) A genus of coarse biennial herbs (Lappa), bearing small burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or wool of animals.