40 "Let beeves and home-bred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow; The swan on still St. Mary's Lake Float double, swan and shadow!

They leave the fisher-cat, an' the mink, an' the ermine, an' the marten; but the lynxsacré an' damn!they jump on him an' pull the fur from him like you pull the wild cotton balls from the burn-bush!

I climbed the hill above the Howe burn-head, keeping the wind on my right cheek as the girl had ordered.

The original streamlet, like most others, was naturally stocked with small "burn-trout," which never exceeded a few ounces in weight, as their ultimate term of growth.

He cuts off heads, burns villages, outrages women, and tramples children under his horses' hoofs.