(n.) The cutting tool of an engraver on metal, used in line engraving. It is made of tempered steel, one end being ground off obliquely so as to produce a sharp point, and the other end inserted in a handle; a graver; also, the similarly shaped tool used by workers in marble.
(n.) The manner or style of execution of an engraver; as, a soft burin; a brilliant burin.
Example Sentences:
(1) What we are doing to each other is what we are doing to the planet?” Margaret Burin (@margaretburin) #VDay dance against violence towards women ends in liberating nude swim, #ByronBay .
(2) He etches with his sharp, implacable burin questions that need to be faced now more than ever in the resistance to terrorism.
Burion
Definition:
(n.) The red-breasted house sparrow of California (Carpodacus frontalis); -- called also crimson-fronted bullfinch.