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A mountain.
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A hill.
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A mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.
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A heap of rubbish, attle, or other such refuse.
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A castrated boar.
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A long sleeveless flannel garment for infants.
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A fortified town.
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A town or city.
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A town having a municipal corporation and certain traditional rights.
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An administrative district in some cities, e.g., London.
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An administrative unit of a city which, under most circumstances according to state or national law, would be considered a larger or more powerful entity; most commonly used in American English to define the five counties that make up New York City.
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Other similar administrative units in cities and states in various parts of the world.
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A district in Alaska having powers similar to a county.
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An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behaviour of each other.
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The pledge or surety thus given.
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A tunnel or hole, often as dug by a small creature.
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A heap or heaps of rubbish or refuse.
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To dig a tunnel or hole
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(with adverbial of direction) to move underneath or press up against in search of safety or comfort
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The young girl burrowed into the bed.
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(with into) to investigate thoroughly
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The journalist burrowed into the origins of the mayor's corruption.
Examples of burrow in a Sentence
They burrow among tall grass.
Most earthworms live in the soil, which they devour as they burrow through it.
The male does not burrow, but wanders freely on the surface of the skin.
Thus there were coarbs of Columba at Iona, Kells, Derry, burrow and other places.
My instinct tells me that my head is an organ for burrowing, as some creatures use their snout and fore paws, and with it I would mine and burrow my way through these hills.
In both there are species which form no nest or burrow, others which construct a simple silk-lined tunnel in the soil, and others which close the aperture of the burrow with a hinged door; while both share the habit of lining the burrow with silk to prevent the infall of loose sand or mould; and the species which make an open burrow close the aperture with a sheet of silk in the winter during hibernation and open it again in the spring.
It lives in a burrow, generally excavated by itself; but when pursued, seeks safety in flight, rather than by a retreat to its hole.
If its mouth be taken as between St Bee's Head on the English and Burrow Head on the Scottish coast, its length is 50 m.
The female, instead of provisioning her burrow with a supply of food that will suffice the larva for its whole life, brings fresh flies with which she regularly feeds her young.
The burrow of the young hamster is only about a foot in depth, while that of the adult descends 4 or 5 ft.
A fox earth can be an enlarged rabbit burrow, a dug out under a tree or similar.
Any saboteur activity experienced by the Four Burrow usually involves people being bused into the County from far afield.
Reg Bamford lost to Matthew Burrow after completing a sextuple against the Beast.
E The burrow swats idly at a fly with his tail.
Worker bees collect nectar and pollen for the queen and new larvae to eat, and keep the burrow tidy.
The towels and rags will also allow the kittens to burrow in between the layers of cloth to keep the warmth inside the box.
However, mites also burrow into the skin of the ear and cause irritation.
Oakwood rides include popular fare such as Speed, Hydro, The Bounce, Vertigo, Spooky 3D, Snake River Falls, Brer Rabbit's Burrow and more.
Body lice appear similar to head lice; however, they burrow into the skin and are rarely seen except on clothing where they lay their nits in seams.
When a human comes in contact with the female mite, the mite burrows under the skin, laying eggs along the line of its burrow.
The female mite may be seen at one end of the burrow, as a tiny pearl-like bump underneath the skin.
A sterilized needle can be used to explore the pearly bump at the end of a burrow, remove its contents, and place it on a slide to be examined.
When lice lay their eggs, expect that they can burrow in pillowcase, bedding, sheets, clothing, and couches.
Professional surfer Taj Burrow is known as the "aerial surfing master."
Inspired and endorsed by Burrow, the Billabong Lux board shorts are part of the Signature series and feature a unique print with embroidered and appliquéd logos.
Even better, Professor Dumbledore himself will be the one to escort him to the Burrow.
Some fly through the air, others burrow in the earth, while several families have become fully adapted to life in fresh water.
Trap-door nests are made by spiders belonging to two widely different groups, namely the Lycosidae or wolf-spiders, to which the true tarantula belongs, and the Mygalomorphae, containing the species which construct the best-known types of this style of burrow.
If an attempt be made by any enemy to lift the lid, the spider seizes its inner side with his fangs and striking his claws into the walls of the burrow offers the greatest possible resistance to the efforts of the intruder.
As a rule terrestrial spiders guard the cocoon in the permanent burrow, as in the trap-door spiders, or in the silken retreat which acts as a temporary nursery, as in the Salticidae.
The fifth pair of prosomatic appendages is used by these scorpions when burrowing, to kick back the sand as the burrow is excavated by the great chelae.
Like most other young animals, fox-cubs are exceedingly playful, and may be seen chasing one another in front of the mouth of the burrow, or even running after their own tails.
Other caterpillars, "budworms" (Heliothis, spp.), attack the buds or burrow into the seed-pods.
These tail-shielded snakes, of which about 40 species are known, are viviparous and burrow in the ground, preferring damp mountainforests.
Some species, however, are alleged to be carnivorous, and a North American form of the genus Hydropsyche is said to spin around the mouth of its burrow a silken net for the capture of small animal organisms living in the water.
Fabre states that the lastnamed insect uses a stone for the temporary closing of her burrow, and the Peckhams have seen a female Ammophila take a stone between her mandibles and use it as a hammer for pounding down the earth over her finished nest.
Yet it may be thought that the usual instinct of the " diggingwasps " to capture and store up food in an underground burrow for the benefit of offspring which they will never see is even more surprising.
They are very prolific, the female producing several litters in the year, each consisting of over a dozen blind young; and these, when not more than three weeks old, are turned out of the parental burrow to form underground homes for themselves.
All the skinks seem to be viviparous, and they prefer dry, sandy ground, in which they burrow and move quickly about in search of their animal food.
Here in the spring the half-dozen or more coyote pups are brought forth; and it is said that at this season the old ones systematically drive any large game they may be chasing as near to their burrow, where the young coyotes are waiting to be fed, as possible before killing it, in order to save the labour of dragging it any great distance.
The genus is common to the northern half of both hemispheres, and its members burrow and hibernate.
It is nowhere abundant, but is found over the northern parts of Europe and Asia, and is a quiet, inoffensive animal, nocturnal and solitary in its habits, sleeping by day in its burrow, and issuing forth at night to feed on roots, beech-mast, fruits, the eggs of birds, small quadrupeds, frogs and insects.
In 1805 he married Harriet Burrow, whose mother, a widow, kept an establishment for lunatics in Hoxton.
During the daytime the hillock at the entrance to the burrow is frequently occupied by one or more members of the family, which at the approach of strangers sit up on their hind-legs in order to get a better view.
If alarmed they utter a shrill loud whistle, and rush down the burrow, but reappear after a few minutes to see if the danger is past.
Many - like the common "solitary" bees Halictus and Andrena - burrow in the ground; the holes of species of Andrena are commonly seen in springtime opening on sandy banks, grassy lawns or gravel paths.
Others have the power of producing sounds, one use to which they put this faculty being apparently to signal from their burrow in the sand that they are "not at home" to an inopportune visitor.
The prairie species (C. ludovicianus) makes a raised, funnel-shaped entrance to its burrow.
Others cause much damage in forests, by boring under the bark and through the wood of trees, whilst some even burrow in the tissue of the leaves.
It lives on dry, welldrained ground, and digs a deep burrow lined with silk to prevent the infall of loose particles of soil.