BUOY-ROPE. The rope which attaches the buoy to the anchor, which should always be of sufficient strength to lift the anchor should the cable part; it should also be little more in length than equal to the depth of the water (at high-water) where the anchor lies.--_To bend the buoy-rope_, pass the running eye over one fluke, take a hitch over the other arm, and seize. Or, take a clove-hitch over the crown on each arm or fluke, stopping the end to its own part, or to the shank. BUOY-ROPE KNOT. Used where the end is lashed to the shank. A knot made by unlaying the strands of a cable-laid rope, and also the small strand of each large strand; and after single and double walling them, as for a stopper-knot, worm the divisions, and round the rope. BURBOT. A fresh-water fish (_Molva lota_) in esteem with fishermen. BURDEN. Is the quantity of contents or number of tons weight of goods or munitions which a ship will carry, when loaded to a proper sea-trim: and this is ascertained by certain fixed rules of measurement. The precise burden or burthen is about twice the tonnage, but then a vessel would be deemed deeply laden. BURG [the Anglo-Saxon _burh_]. A word connected with fortification in German, as in almost all the Teutonic languages of Europe. In Arabic the same term, with the alteration of a letter, _burj_, signifies primarily a bastion, and by extension any fortified place on a rising ground. This meaning has been retained by all northern nations who have borrowed the word; and we, with the rest, name our towns, once fortified, burghs or boroughs. BURGALL. A fish of the American coasts, from 6 to 12 inches long: it is also called the blue-perch, the chogset, and the nibbler--the last from its habit of nibbling off the bait thrown for other fishes. BURGEE. A swallow-tailed or tapered broad pendant; in the merchant service it generally has the ship's name on it. BURGOMASTER. In the Arctic Sea, a large species of gull (_Larus glaucus_). BURGONET. A steel head-piece, or kind of helmet. Shakspeare makes Cleopatra, alluding to Antony, exclaim-- "The demi-Atlas of this earth, the arm And burgonet of men." In the second part of "Henry VI." Clifford threatens Warwick-- "And from thy burgonet I'll rend thy bear, And tread it underfoot with all contempt." BURGOO. A seafaring dish made of boiled oatmeal seasoned with salt, butter, and sugar. (_See_ LOBLOLLY and SKILLY.) BURLEY. The butt-end of a lance. BURLEY-TWINE. A strong and coarse twine or small string. BURN, OR BOURNE. The Anglo-Saxon term for a small stream or brook, originating from springs, and winding through meadows, thus differing from a beck. Shakspeare makes Edgar say in "King Lear"-- "Come o'er the bourn, Bessy, to me." The word also signifies a boundary. BURNETTIZE, TO. To impregnate canvas, timber, or cordage with Sir William Burnett's fluid, a solution of chloride of zinc.