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Bunsen's Burner

a form of gas burner especially adapted for heating, consisting of a tube, in which, by means of holes in the side, the gas becomes mixed with air before consumption, so that it gives a non-luminous smokeless flame.

Bunting

a thin woolen stuff, of which the colors and signals of a ship are usually formed; hence a vessel's flags collectively.

Buonarroti

MICHAEL ANGELO.

See ANGELO.

Burdock

the English name of arctium, a genus of plants belonging to BURGESS the order asteraceæ (composites), and the sub-order tubulifloræ. The common burdock, A. lappa, is well known.

Bureau

a French word signifying a writing table or desk; also an office for transacting business, a department of government, or the officials that carry it on. In the United States, it is also used in the latter sense; but is universally the word for a chest of drawers.

Burgomaster

or BÜRGER- MEISTER, the title of the chief magis- BURGOS trate of German towns or cities, corresponding to the English mayor, the Scotch provost, and the French maire. once the capital the kingdom

Burgundy Wine

the finest of all the French wines, the product of vines BURGUNDY WINE, the finest of all cultivated in the Côte-d'Or, a portion of the ancient province of Burgundy. most noted of the red wines of Burgundy white wines are less celebrated. are Richebourg and Chambertin. The

Burlington

city, port of entry and York Barge Canal, and the Central Ver-

Burnham

CLARA LOUISE, an American story writer, born in Newton, Mass., May 25, 1854. She wrote numerous novels, including "Dearly Bought" (1884); "Next Door" (1886); "Young Maids and Old" (1888); "Miss Bagg's Secretary" (1892); "Sweet Clover, a Romance of the White City" (1894); "The Right Princess" (1902); "The Inner Flame" (1912); "In Apple Blossom Time" (1919); ): etc.

Burnham

DANIEL HUDSON, an American architect, born in Henderson, N. Y., Sept. 4, 1846. He studied architecture in Chicago and designed notable He wrote

Burning Bush

in botany: (1) The artillery plant, pilea serpyllifolia, an urticaceous species; (2) euonymus atropurpureus, and E. americanus; (3) dictamnus fraxinella, a garden plant, which is said to give off so much essential oil that if a light be brought near it, it will ignite.

Burroughs

BRYSON, an American schools and studied art at the Art Stu- BURROUGHS dent's League. He afterward carried on art studies in Paris and Florence. He won silver medals at the Buffalo and Pittsburgh Expositions. He was curator of paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and was associate at the National Academy.