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burns

n. (plural of burn English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: burn)

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Burns, WY -- U.S. town in Wyoming
Population (2000): 285
Housing Units (2000): 117
Land area (2000): 3.056620 sq. miles (7.916608 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.056620 sq. miles (7.916608 sq. km)
FIPS code: 11265
Located within: Wyoming (WY), FIPS 56
Location: 41.191962 N, 104.358163 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 82053
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Headwords:
Burns, WY
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Burns, OR -- U.S. city in Oregon
Population (2000): 3064
Housing Units (2000): 1487
Land area (2000): 3.556672 sq. miles (9.211739 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.556672 sq. miles (9.211739 sq. km)
FIPS code: 09800
Located within: Oregon (OR), FIPS 41
Location: 43.586827 N, 119.057114 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 97720
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Headwords:
Burns, OR
Burns
Burns, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
Population (2000): 268
Housing Units (2000): 116
Land area (2000): 0.354685 sq. miles (0.918629 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.354685 sq. miles (0.918629 sq. km)
FIPS code: 09450
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 38.090692 N, 96.887103 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 66840
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Burns, KS
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Burns, TN -- U.S. town in Tennessee
Population (2000): 1366
Housing Units (2000): 582
Land area (2000): 2.600880 sq. miles (6.736247 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.002272 sq. miles (0.005885 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.603152 sq. miles (6.742132 sq. km)
FIPS code: 09880
Located within: Tennessee (TN), FIPS 47
Location: 36.054264 N, 87.315978 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 37029
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Burns, TN
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Burns

Burns may refer to:

  • Burn, an injury (plural)

People:

  • Burns (surname), includes list of people and characters

Business:

  • Burns London, a British guitar maker

Places:

  • Burns, Colorado, unincorporated community in Eagle County
  • Burns, Kansas, city in Marion County
  • Burns, New York, town in Allegany County
  • Burns, Oregon, city in Harney County
  • Burns, Tennessee, town in Dickson County
  • Burns, Wisconsin, town in La Crosse County
    • Burns (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
  • Burns, Wyoming, town in Laramie County

Buildings:

  • H.B. Burns Memorial Building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C.

Ships:

  • USS Burns (DD-171), a United States Navy destroyer in commission from 1919 to 1930
  • USS Burns (DD-588), a United States Navy destroyer in commission from 1943 to 1946
  • USS W. W. Burns (1861), a schooner acquired by the United States Navy in 1861
Burns (surname)

The surname Burns has several origins. In some cases it derived from the Middle English burn, and originated as a topographic name for an individual who lived by a stream. In other cases the surname is a variant form of the surname Burnhouse, which originated as habitational name, derived from a place name made up of the word elements burn and house. In other cases the surname Burns originated as a nickname meaning "burn house". In other cases, the surname Burns is an Anglicised form of the Gaelic Ó Broin, which means "descendant of Bran". In some cases the surname Burns is an Americanized form of the Jewish surname Bernstein, which is derived from the German bernstein (" amber").

An early form of the surname when derived from the place name Burnhouse is "Burnis", recorded in 1526. An early form of the surname when derived from a nickname meaning "burn house" is "Brenhus", recorded in 1286 and 1275.

Burns (crater)

Burns is a crater on Mercury. It has a diameter of 45 kilometers. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1985. Burns is named for the Scottish poet Robert Burns, who lived from 1759 to 1796.

Burns (musician)

Matthew James Burns (born 31 October 1985), better known by the stage name Burns is an English DJ, record producer and singer and songwriter. His recent writing and production credits include Britney Spears, Kelis, Pitbull, Ellie Goulding and others.

Usage examples of "burns".

The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Complete works of Robert Burns, by Allan Cunningham.

Robert Burns and Allan Cunningham This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.

Scottish Dialect, by Robert Burns, printed for the Author, and sold by William Creech, 1787.

I have deliberately omitted several pieces of verse ascribed to Burns by other editors, who too hastily, and I think on insufficient testimony, admitted them among his works.

These productions, with the exception of the last, were never seen by any one even in the handwriting of Burns, and are one and all wanting in that original vigour of language and manliness of sentiment which distinguish his poetry.

This suspicion of Jacobitism, revived by Burns himself, when he rose into fame, seems not to have influenced either the feelings, or the tastes of Agnes Brown, a young woman on the Doon, whom he wooed and married in December, 1757, when he was thirty-six years old.

Farmer Attention, as the proverb says, is a good farmer, all the world over, and Burns was such by fits and by starts.

The dreams of Burns were of the muses, and not of rising markets, of golden locks rather than of yellow corn: he had other faults.

Here, too, Burns was the president, and the members were chiefly the sons of husbandmen, whom he found, he said, more natural in their manners, and more agreeable than the self-sufficient mechanics of villages and towns, who were ready to dispute on all topics, and inclined to be convinced on none.

Some of the princes, it has been satirically hinted, behaved afterwards in such a way as if they wished that the scripture of the Burns should be fulfilled: in this strain, he has imitated the license and equalled the wit of some of the elder Scottish Poets.

He could speak fluently of leas, and faughs, and fallows, of change of seed and rotation of crops, but practical knowledge and application were required, and in these Burns was deficient.

Before he printed the whole, he, with the consent of his brother, altered his name from Burness to Burns, a change which, I am told, he in after years regretted.

Even this step was to Burns one of danger: some ill-advised person had uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at his heels, and he was obliged to shelter himself as he best could, in woods, it is said, by day and in barns by night, till the final hour of his departure came.

Lord Buchan, instructing him to pull birks on the Yarrow, broom on the Cowden-knowes, and not to neglect to admire the ruins of Drybrugh Abbey, Burns set out on a border tour, accompanied by Robert Ainslie, of Berrywell.

With the freedom of Jedburgh, handsomely bestowed by the magistrates, in his pocket, Burns made his way to Wauchope, the residence of Mrs.