[f. BUR sb. + -Y1.]

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  1.  a. Full of burs (see BUR sb.). b. Of the nature of a bur; rough, prickly.

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1468.  Medulla Gram., in Cath. Angl., 48. Lappetum, a burry place.

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1597.  Gerard, Herbal, I. xxx. § 2. 41. They bring foorth their burrie bullets … in August.

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1676.  T. Glover, in Phil. Trans., II. 629. Another [nut] … like a Chesnut, with a Burry husk.

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1737.  Miller, Gard. Dict. (1768), I. 4. Seeds armed with three burry prickles.

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1865.  Times, 13 Feb. Wool … gray, 21/2d. to 5d., burry and refuse, 1/2d. to 6d.

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  † 2.  Shaggy, rough. Obs.

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c. 1450.  Henryson, in Bannatyne Poems, 109 (Jam.). That he [the sheep] … heir quhat burry Dog wald say him till.

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