or Burdon, in Music, the drone or base, and the pipe or string which plays it: hence that part of a song that is repeated at the end of every stanza, is called the burden of it.—A chord which is to be divided, to perform the intervals of music, when open and undivided, is also called the burden.

**Burden** properly signifies a heavy weight or load. Ringelberg recommends the bearing burdens as the best sort of exercise; especially to strengthen men of study. To this end, he had a gown lined with plates of lead, which he could just lift with both his hands. This load he bore six or seven days together, either increasing or diminishing it as he found occasion; by which means he could both write and exercise at the same time.

**Burden** also denotes a fixed quantity of certain commodities. A burden of gud steel is two score, or 120 pounds.

**Burden of a Ship** is its contents, or number of tons it will carry. The burden of a ship may be determined thus: Multiply the length of the keel taken within board, by the breadth of the ship within board, taken from the midship-beam, from plank to plank; and multiply the product by the depth of the hold, taken from the plank below the keelson, to the under part of the upper deck plank; and divide the last product by 94: the quotient is the content of the tonnage required. See Freight.

**BURDOCK.** See Arctium and Xanthium, Botany Index.

**Burell**, or Civita Burella, a town of Italy in the kingdom of Naples, and in Abruzzo Citra, near the river Sangro. E. Long. 15. 5. N. Lat. 41. 36.

**Buren**, a town of the United Provinces, in Guelderland. It gives the title of count de Buren to the prince of Orange. E. Long. 5. 22. N. Lat. 52. 0.

**Buren**, a town of Germany, in the circle of Westphalia.