An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

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.

Isl. brendu silfri, id. Snorro Sturleson shews that skirt silfr, i. e. pure silver, and brennt silfr, are the same.

BURR, BURRH, s. The whirring sound made by some people in pronouncing the letter r; as by the inhabitants of Northumberland, S.
Statist. Acc.

This word seems formed from the sound.

BURRA, s. The most common kind of rush, Orkn.; there the Juncus squarrosus.

BURRACH'D, part. pa. Inclosed.
V. [Bowrach'd].

To BURRIE, v. a. To overpower in working, to overcome in striving at work, S. B.

Allied perhaps to Fr. bourrer, Isl. ber-ia, to beat.

BURRY, adj.
Henrysone.