Word Meanings - ELECTORESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An electress. Bp. Burnet.

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• BURNET
  A genus of perennial herbs ; especially, P.Sanguisorba, the common, or garden, burnet. Burnet moth , in England, a handsome moth , with crimson spots on the wings. -- Burnet saxifrage. See Saxifrage. -- Canadian burnet, a marsh plant . --
• ELECTRESS
  The wife or widow of an elector in the old German empire. Burke.
• BURNETTIZE
  To subject to a process of saturation in a solution of chloride of zinc, to prevent decay; -- a process invented by Sir William Burnett.