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 BUR ( <>93 ) BUR parture, and therefore were purified with fire. The cold would turn to alhes fecond reafon is, that the foul, being feparated from the are not luted clofe. ; and fo it will be, if the joints grofs and unadtive matter, might be at liberty to take around, polilhed piece of flee!, ferving its flight into heaven. The body was, rarely burnt BURNISHER, and give a luftre to metals. without company, for befides the various anir..als they tofmooth Of thefe there are different kinds of different fithrew upon the pile, we feldom find a man of quality gures, crooked, &c. Plalfburnilhers are ufed copfumed without a number of flaves and captives, to folderftrait, which, in barbarous times, they ufed to murder for dering. filver, as well as to give a luftre. See Solthat purpofe : and in fome parts of the Eaft Indies it BURNISHING, the art of fmoothing or polilhfng a is cuftomary, at this day, for wives to throw them- metalline body, by a brifk rubbing of it with a burfelves into the funeral pile with their deceafed hufbands. At the funerals of emperors, generals, <bc. nilher. Book-binders burniffi the edges of their books, by who had their arms burnt with them, the foldiers rubbing a dog’s tooth. Gold and filver are made proceffion three times round the funeral pile burnifhed,themby with rubbing them with a wolf’s tooth, or by with (bouts and trumpets, to exprefs their refpedt to the bloody ftone, or by tripoli, a piece of white wood, the dead. During the burning alfo, the dead perfon’s emery, and the like. Deer are faid to burnilh their friends flood by, called on the deceafed, and poured by rubbing off a downy white fkin from their out libations of wine, with which, when the pile was heads, horns, againft a tree. burnt down, they extinguifhed the remains of the fire; BURNLEY, a market-town of Lancalhire, 0about 27 and having colledted the bones of the deceafed, walk- miles fouth-eaft ed them with wine, and anointed them with oil. N. lat. J3° 4c/. of Lancafter : W. long. 2 f, and When the bones were difcovered, they gathered the BURR, the round knob of a horn next a deer’s head. allies that lay clofe to them, and both were repofited or Boree, a kind of dance comin urns, either of wood, ftone, earth, filver, or gold, BURRE,of Bouree, three fteps joined together in two motions, according to the quality of the deceafed. See Urn. pofed begun with a crotchet riling. The firft couplet conBurning, among furgeons. See Cauterization. Burning is much pra&ifed by the people of the Eaft tains twice four meafures, the fecond twice eight. It Indies, particularly thofe of Japan, who ufe the moxa confifts of a balance and coupee. BURREGREG, a confiderable river of the kingdom of for this purpofe. See Moxa. Burning-^/c?/}, a Convex or concave glafs, commonly Fez, in Africa; which-taking its rife in the Atlas falls into the ocean not far from the ftraits fpherical, which being expofed diredly to the fun, mountains, col lefts all the rays falling thereon into a very fmall of Gibraltar. fpace, called the focus ; where wood, or any other BURR-PUMP, or Bildge-pump, differs from the combuftible mattei being put, will be fet on fire. See common pump, in having a ftaff 6, 7, or 8 feet long, with a bar of wood, whereto the leather is nailed, Optics. and this ferves inftead of a box; So two men, HandBuRNiNG-WMKW/a/w/. See Volcano. Burning of colours, among painters. There are fe- ing over the pump, thruft down this ftaff, to the midveral colours that require burning; as firft, lamp- dle whereof is faftened a rope, for 6, 8, or 10 to hale black, udiich is a colour of fo greafy a nature, that, by, thus pulling it up and down. except it is burnt, it will require a long time to dry. BURROCK, a fmall wier or dam, where wheels are laid The method of burning, or rather drying, lamp- in a river, for the taking of filh. black, is as follows : Put it into a crucible over a BURROW, orBoRouGH. See Borough. clear fire, letting it remain till it be red hot, or fo BURROWS, holes in.a warren, which ferve as a conear it that there is no' manner of fmoke arifes from it. vert for hares, rabbits, <&c. Secondly, Umber, which if it be intended for co- BURSA, orPausA, in geography, the capital of Bilour fgr a horfe, or to be a lhadow for gold, then thinia, in Alia Minor, fituated in a fine fruitful plain, burning fits it for both thefe purpofes. at the foot of mount Olympus, about a-n hundred miles In order to burn umber, you muft put it into the fouth of Conftantinople : E. long. 29°, and N. lat. naked fire, in large lumps, and not take it ojjt till it 40° 30'. is thoroughly red hot; if you have a mind to be more 'BvKSh-paJioris, in botany. SeeTHLASPi. curious, put it into a crucible, and keep it over the BURSAR, in a general fenfe, fignifies a treafurer or fire till it be red hot. efpecially in a monafteiy. Ivory alfo muft be burnt to make black, thus : fill pdrfe-keeper, in a commercial fenfe, a place for merchants two crucibles with lhavings of ivory, then clap their BURSE, to meet in, and negotiate their bufinefs publicly, with two mouths together, and bind them fall with an iron us called exchange. See Exchange. wire, and lute the joints clofe with clay, fait, and BURSTEN, denotes a perfon who has a rupture. See horfe-dung, well beaten together ; then fet it over Rupture. the fire, covering it all over with coals : let it remain BURTON, in geog'raphy, the name of two marketin the fire, till you are fure that the matter inclofed towns, the one in Staffordftiire, and the other in is thoroughly red hot: then take it out of the fire ; Lincolnlhire ; the former being lituated about0 18 but do not open the crucibles till they a^e perfeftly miles tall of Stafford, in i° 36' W. long, and 52 40' Vol. I. Numb. 29. 3 8N N. lat.
 * for were they opened while hot, the matfer