Seed vessel having hooks or prickles

Usage examples of bur.

Dandelion, Gentian and Valerian for some reason have survived and the Homeopaths use many more, but such useful plants as Agrimony, Slippery Elm, Horehound, Bistort, Poplar, Bur Marigold, Wood Betony, Wood Sanicle, Wild Carrot, Raspberry leaves, and the Sarsaparillas are now only used by Herbalists.

I own to a boyish pleasure in seeing the clouds of brown chafers in early summer clustering on the maple hedges and keeping up a continual burring.

I know that I told bur I was the brother, the rival, the enemy of the man she loved,--I know that I uttered the fiercest and the wildest menaces and execrations,--I know that my vehemence so overpowered and terrified her that her mind was scarcely less clouded--less lost, rather--than my own.

The Feoffees, as you know, have existed for five hundred years, helping the unfortunate, supporting the sick, giving burs aries and scholarships to deserving causes and I want to have a really good bash up here at Manston Hall to celebrate our achievements.

In places, herds of gaur, bur, dang, and arne milled about in mud pools up to their thick necks, mooing and lowing at the passing humans.

And when she reached the great city Inwit, a thousand bags of flowers were released upstream, and all of Burring, from shore to shore, was a pond of petals for the coming of the Flower Princess.

Fatma, a cobra which was really an iron spring -- it throbbed and jumped and burred on the Moorish coffee table if you touched it, a Rif saddle, a hubble-bubble, scimitars and daggers on the walls.

His vanes made a quiet burring noise as he roted through the gas towards them.

He sang it many times on the way down the river, the two weeks as Banning turned into Burring, and they passed the great castles of Runs, Gronskeep, Holy Bend, Sturks, and Pry.

It was dark among the outbuildings, bur Thrid moved with perfect confidence.

Those seemed content to observe, like myself, bur they had all disrobed, though three or four of them Romanly kept on a single undergarment: a strophion about the breasts, a belt around the waist, a skimpy loincloth.

The voice that had jerked her awake had been deep, burred, and she'd heard the word lass.

The question was voiced in a deep, calm, softly burred voice, and came very clear to her ears as if he stood close against the other side of the door.

The softly burred words made them spin, Parrish dragging Grace about, wrenching her arm.

The ventilation and temperature-control system burred softly in the background.