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Scottish and northern English
Scottish and northern English : variant of Small.English : habitational name from a lost place in eastern Sussex named Smeghel, from Old English smēagel ‘burrow’, or from Brooksmarle (now Broxmead) in Sussex (named with Old English brocc ‘badger’ + smēagel).
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English
English : probably a variant of Burrows. Compare Burriss.Probably also an Americanized spelling of German Börries (see Burres).
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English : habitational name from any of various places, such as Foscott (Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire), Foscote (Northamptonshire, Wiltshire), Foxcott (Hampshire), Foxcote (Gloucestershire, Warwickshire), so named from Old English fox ‘fox’ + cot ‘shelter’, ‘burrow’.
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English : variant of Burrows.Possibly an altered form of German Börries or Borr(i)es (see Burress).
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English : topographic name for someone who lived by a hill or tumulus, Old English beorg, a cognate of Old High German berg ‘hill’, ‘mountain’ (see Berg). This name has become confused with derivatives of Old English burh ‘fort’ (see Burke). Reaney suggests a further derivation from Old English būr ‘bower’ + hūs ‘house’.
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Scottish : patronymic from Small.English : possibly a topographic name for someone who lived by a rabbit warren, from the plural of Middle English smyle ‘burrow’ (Old English smygels).
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English : nickname for someone supposedly resembling a mole (the burrowing mammal), Middle English mol(le) (from Dutch or Low German mol), for example in having poor eyesight.English : nickname for someone with a prominent mole or blemish on the face, from Middle English mole (Old English mÄl).English : from an Old English masculine personal name, Moll.English : from Old Norse moli ‘crumb’, ‘grain’, possibly a nickname for a small man.French : metonymic occupational name for a knife grinder or a maker of whetstones, from a variant of meule ‘whetstone’, ‘grindstone’, ‘millstone’.Italian : variant of Mule.Slovenian : probably a nickname for a extremely religious man, from mole ‘zealot’, a derivative of moliti ‘to pray’.
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English : variant spelling of Burrow.
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English : unexplained; perhaps a variant of Burrows. Compare Burris.
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English : variant spelling of Burrows.
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English : probably a variant of Burrows. Compare Burris.
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English : variant of Burrows.Possibly an altered form of German Börries or Borr(i)es (see Burress).
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English : variant of Burrows.
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English : variant spelling of Burrows.
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The blind mole rat (Spalax typhlus), native of Eastern Europe and Asia. Its eyes and ears are rudimentary, and its fur is soft and brownish, more or less tinged with gray. It constructs extensive burrows.
v. t.
To force from a burrow; to unearth.
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Any species of Thalaassinidae, a family of burrowing macrurous Crustacea, having a long and soft abdomen.
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A large burrowing South American rodent (Lagostomus trichodactylus) allied to the chinchillas, but much larger. Its fur is soft and rather long, mottled gray above, white or yellowish white beneath. There is a white band across the muzzle, and a dark band on each cheek. It inhabits grassy plains, and is noted for its extensive burrows and for heaping up miscellaneous articles at the mouth of its burrows. Called also biscacha, bizcacha, vischacha, vishatscha.
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Any one of numerous species of batrachians belonging to the genus Bufo and allied genera, especially those of the family Bufonidae. Toads are generally terrestrial in their habits except during the breeding season, when they seek the water. Most of the species burrow beneath the earth in the daytime and come forth to feed on insects at night. Most toads have a rough, warty skin in which are glands that secrete an acrid fluid.
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A burrow made by a worm.
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Any botfly larva which burrows in or beneath the skin of domestic and wild animals, thus producing sores. They belong to various species of Hypoderma and allied genera. Domestic cattle are often infested by a large species. See Gadfly. Called also warble, and worble.
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An Asiatic burrowing rodent (Siphneus aspalax) resembling the mole rat. It is native of the Altai Mountains.
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A class of marine cephalate Mollusca having a tubular shell open at both ends, a pointed or spadelike foot for burrowing, and many long, slender, prehensile oral tentacles. It includes Dentalium, or the tooth shells, and other similar shells. Called also Prosopocephala, and Solenoconcha.
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A burrowing South American rodent (Ctenomys Braziliensis). It has small eyes and ears and a short tail. It resembles the pocket gopher in size, form, and habits, but is more nearly allied to the porcupines.
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Boring, or hollowing out, rocks; -- said of certain mollusks which live in holes which they burrow in rocks. See Illust. of Lithodomus.
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One who, or that which, burrows; an animal that makes a hole under ground and lives in it.
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The giant armadillo (Priodontes gigas) of tropical South America. It becomes nearly five feet long including the tail. It is noted for its burrowing powers, feeds largely upon dead animals, and sometimes invades human graves.
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Any one of numerous species of scaraboid beetles belonging to Scarabaeus, Copris, Phanaeus, and allied genera. The female lays her eggs in a globular mass of dung which she rolls by means of her hind legs to a burrow excavated in the earth in which she buries it.
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A tubular structure found in Potsdam sandstone, and believed to be the fossil burrow of a marine worm.
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Any one of numerous species of annelids which burrow in the sand of the seashore.
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A small, footless, burrowing, snakelike lizard (Rhineura Floridana) allied to Amphisbaena, native of Florida; -- so called because it leaves its burrows after a thundershower.
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A South African burrowing mammal (Suricata tetradactyla), allied to the civets. It is grayish brown, with yellowish transverse stripes on the back. Called also suricat.