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 1880. Blackwood's Mag., June, p. 775. He became a madman when drunk. Once 'on the burst,' as he phrased it, money, horses, cows, furniture, even his wife's wearing apparel, went to feed the insatiable and cruel demon who possessed him.

1881. Praed, Policy and Passion, vol. I., p. 228. When his men go on the burst, what can he do but make his daughters help?

2. (sporting.)—A sudden and vigorous access or display of energy; a lively pace or spurt.

Bursted, ppl. adj. (general).—Hard up. [From burst, failure or collapse, + ed.]

1873. Chicago Daily Tribune, June 30. At the far end [of the room] four lank and bursted frontiersmen sang with a doleful want of melody or attention the celebrated ballad by John Hay on the fate of Little Breeches.

Burster, subs. (racing).—1. A heavy fall; a 'cropper.'

1863. Evening Standard, 24 April. Benedict came down a burster, and was out of the race.

2. See also Buster, sense 1.

Bury. Go bury yourself! phr. (American).—A Californianism which has more of the fortiter than the suaviter in its composition. Equivalent to 'Go! hide your diminished head.' Cf., Carry me out and bury me decently.

To bury or dig up the hatchet, verbal phr. (American).—Amongst Indian tribes certain symbolic ceremonies are connected with the war-hatchet or tomahawk, which are equivalent to a declaration of war, or a compact of peace.—To bury the hatchet is the emblem of the putting away of strife and enmity; on the other hand, the red skin, before he commences hostilities, digs up afresh the fateful symbol. This picturesque imagery has passed into the colloquial inheritance of the American people, and the expressions of burying or digging up the hatchet are frequently applied to the affairs of everyday life. This symbolism though new in form is old in idea. Shakspeare in The Tempest, v., 1, 55, says, 'I'le breake my staffe, bury it certaine fadomes in the earth.'

1855-59. Washington Irving, Life of Washington, I., p. 361. 'They smoked the pipe of peace together, and the colonel claimed the credit of having, by his diplomacy, persuaded the sachem to bury the hatchet.'

1855. Longfellow, Hiawatha, 13.

Buried was the bloody hatchet; Buried was the dreadful war-club; Buried were all warlike weapons, And the war-cry was forgotten; Then was peace among the nations.

1873. Carleton Ballads.

I don't know what you'll think, sir—I didn't come to inquire— But I picked up that agreement and stuffed it in the fire; And I told her we'd bury the hatchet alongside of the cow; And we struck an agreement never to have another row.

To bury a moll, phr. (general).—To desert or forsake a wife or mistress. [Moll = woman, wife, or prostitute.]

French Synonyms. Envoyer une ouistiti (ouistiti signifies properly a striated monkey); lâcher une femme (literally to cast off a woman); balancer une largue.

To bury a Quaker, phr. (Irish slang).—To evacuate; to ease oneself.

English Synonyms. To go to the crapping castle, casa, or ken (castle, casa, and ken are old canting terms for a place or