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Definition of Burroughs

1. Noun. United States writer noted for his works portraying the life of drug addicts (1914-1997).

2. Noun. United States inventor who patented the first practical adding machine (1855-1898).

3. Noun. United States novelist and author of the Tarzan stories (1875-1950).

Definition of Burroughs

1. Proper noun. (surname A=An English topographical from=Middle English dot=) for someone who lived near a hill or a fort. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Burroughs

Burns' falciform process Burns' ligament Burns' space Burns night Burns stanza Burnsian Burnsians Burnside Burow's operation Burow's solution

Burow's triangle Burow's vein Burrampooter Burrhus Frederic Skinner Burrill Bernard Crohn Burroughs (current term) Burroughsian Burrows Bursa Bursa of Fabricius

Bursera Bursera microphylla Bursera simaruba Burseraceae Bursledon Burton Burton's line Burtonian Buru babirusa Buruli ulcer

Literary usage of Burroughs

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Origin of Modern Calculating Machines: A Chronicle of the Evolution of the by J. A. V. Turck (1921)
"One of the next attempts to produce a recording- adder was made by Wm. S. Burroughs, whose name sixteen years later was used to rename the American ..."

2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"JOHN Burroughs (1837-; JOHN Burroughs was born in Roxbury, New York, April 3d, ... A JOHN Burroughs Mr. Burroughs ascribes to Emerson, who stimulated his ..."

3. The Humane Movement: A Descriptive Survey, Prepared on the Henry Bergh by Roswell Cheney McCrea (1910)
"Burroughs, John. Current misconceptions in natural history. Century 67: 509-17. ... Burroughs, John. Some natural history doubts and conclusions. ..."

4. The Craftsman by Gustav Stickley (1905)
"John Burroughs; a man especially blessed and equipped of Nature to see ... It was a singular success in another line that led the young essayist, Burroughs, ..."

5. Famous Living Americans, with Portraits edited by Mary Griffin Webb, Edna Lenore Webb (1914)
"JOHN Burroughs BY EDWARD BARRETT THERE is a difference between the naturalist and the scientist. Or rather, there is a difference between the naturalist and ..."

6. Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athenaeum by Charles Ammi Cutter, Boston Athenaeum (1874)
"Burroughs, 7,Vr. Arthur T. Recommendation of readiness for suffering; sermon, ... E. Burroughs confuted by the Word of God. (In Bunyan, J. Works, v. 2. ..."

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