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BURN, _s_

1 Water, particularly that which is taken from a fountain or well S

_Ferguson_

Moes G _brunna_, Su G _brunn_, Isl _brunn-ur_, Ger _bornwater_, water from a well A rivulet, a brook S A Bor

_Douglas_

2 E bourn In this sense only A S _burn_, and _byrna_, occur; or as signifying a torrent

3 The water used in brewing, S B

_Lyndsay_

4 Urine, S B ”To ere Germ _brun_, urina

~Burnie~, ~Burny~, is so a small brook, S

_Beattie_

_To_ BURN, _v a_

1 One is said to be _burnt_, when he has suffered in any atte suffered severely, S

_Baillie_

2 To deceive, to cheat in a bargain, S One says that he has been _brunt_, when overreached These are merely oblique senses of the E v

BURNET, _adj_ Of a brown colour

_Douglas_

Fr _brunette_, a dark brown stuff formerly worn by persons of quality

BURNEWIN, _s_ A cant term for a blacksmith, S

_Burns_

”_Burn-the-wind_,--an appropriate term,” N

BURNT SILVER, BRINT SILVER, silver refined in the furnace

_Acts Ja II_