Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for BURS'AR
BURR'-PUMP, or BILGE'-PUMPBURS'AR-SHIP
BURS'AR, n. [See Burse.]
- A treasurer, or cash-keeper, as the bursar of a college, or of a monastery; a purser.
- A student to whom a stipend is paid out of a burse or fund appropriated for that purpose, as the exhibitioners sent to the universities in Scotland, by each presbytery. – Encyc. Johnson.
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