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burnet (medicine)


burnet
<botany> A genus of perennial herbs (Poterium); especially, P.Sanguisorba, the common, or Garden, burnet.

<zoology> Burnet moth, in England, a handsome moth (Zygaena filipendula), with crimson spots on the wings. Burnet saxifrage.

<botany> See Saxifrage. Canadian burnet, a marsh plant (Poterium Canadensis). Great burnet, Wild burnet, Poterium (or Sanguisorba) oficinalis.

Origin: OE. Burnet burnet; also, brownish (the plant perh. Being named from its colour), fr. F. Brunet, dim. Of brun brown; cf. OF. Brunete a sort of flower. See Brunette.

Source: Websters Dictionary


bracket(1) (iou)



bracket noun. Orig. braget, bragget. L16.

A flat-topped, usu. decorated, projection from a wall, serving as a support to a statue, arch, etc. L16.
b. A small (ornamental) shelf with a slanting underprop for fixing to a wall. M17.
A wooden or metal angular support; a support for a lamp, projecting from a wall. E17.
Either of the two side-pieces of a gun-carriage. M18.
A mark used, usu. in pairs ( ), [ ], { }, < >, for enclosing a word or words, figures, etc., so as to separate them from the context; spec. (Typography) a square bracket. M18.
angle bracket, round bracket, square bracket, etc.
Military. (The distance between) shots fired short of and over the target in rangefinding. L19.
A group (of people) classed together as similar or as falling between certain limits (of income etc.). L19.
M. Innes They were both from the same social bracket. J. K. Galbraith Tax reductions affecting the upper surtax brackets.
Skating. A series of turns resembling a bracket { L19.
Comb.: bracket clock: designed to stand on a wall-bracket; bracket fungus: forming shelflike projections on tree-trunks etc.