And tread it underfoot with all contempt."

BURGOO. A seafaring dish made of boiled oatmeal seasoned with salt,
butter, and sugar. (_See_ LOBLOLLY and SKILLY.)

BURLEY. The butt-end of a lance.

BURLEY-TWINE. A strong and coarse twine or small string.

BURN, OR BOURNE. The Anglo-Saxon term for a small stream or brook,
originating from springs, and winding through meadows, thus differing
from a beck. Shakspeare makes Edgar say in "King Lear"--

"Come o'er the bourn, Bessy, to me."

The word also signifies a boundary.

BURNETTIZE, TO. To impregnate canvas, timber, or cordage with Sir
William Burnett's fluid, a solution of chloride of zinc.

BURN THE WATER. A phrase denoting the act of killing salmon in the
night, with a lister and lighted torch in the boat.

BURN-TROUT. A northern term for a small species of river-trout.

BURR. The iris or hazy circle which appears round the moon before rain.
Also, a Manx or Gaelic term for the wind blowing across on the tide.
Also, the sound made by the Newcastle men in pronouncing the letter R.

BURREL. A langrage shot, consisting of bits of iron, bullets, nails, and
other matters, got together in haste for a sudden emergency.

BURROCK. A small weir over a river, where weals are laid for taking
fish.

BURR-PUMP. A name of the bilge-pump.

BURSER. _See_ PURSER.

BURST. The explosion of a shell or any gun.

BURTHEN. _See_ BURDEN.

BURTON. A small tackle rove in a particular manner; it is formed by two
blocks or pulleys, with a hook-block in the bight of the running part;
it is generally used to set up or tighten the shrouds, whence it is
frequently termed a top-burton tackle; but it is equally useful to move
or draw along any weighty body in the hold or on the deck, as anchors,
bales of goods, large casks, &c. (_See_ SPANISH-BURTON.) The burton
purchase, also _runner-purchase_ (which see).

BUSH, OR BOUCHE. A circular shouldered piece of metal, usually of brass,
let into the lignum vitae sheaves of such blocks as have iron pins,
thereby preventing the sheave from wearing, without adding much to its
weight. The operation of placing it in the wood is called bushing or
coaking, though the last name is usually given to smaller bushes of a
square shape. Brass bushes are also extensively applied in the marine
steam-engine work. Also, in artillery, the plug (generally of copper, on
account of the superior resistance of that metal to the flame of
exploded gunpowder),