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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
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†BUSS, n.5 A cant term for a bursary or scholarship (Ags. 1860 A. Whamond James Tacket xviii.).Abd. [1851] W. Anderson Rhymes, etc. (1867) 46:
He read through the Classics, and then made a shift A bursary to gain . . . Though the buss might hae lightened the pangs o' the past, What wi' watchin' an workin' his health broke at last.
