burrow

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A hole or tunnel dug in the ground by a small animal, such as a rabbit or mole, for habitation or refuge.
2. n. A narrow or snug place.
3. v. To dig a hole or tunnel for habitation or refuge.
4. v. To live or hide in such a place.
5. v. To move or progress by or as if by digging or tunneling: "Suddenly the train is burrowing through the pinewoods” ( William Styron).
6. v. To make by or as if by tunneling.
7. v. To dig a hole or tunnel in or through.
8. v. Archaic To hide in or as if in a burrow.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. An obsolete spelling of borough.
2. n. A barrow; a mound. Sir T. Browne. See barrow.
3. n. In mining, the heap of refuse rock at the mouth of a shaft, or entrance of an adit-level or tunnel.
4. n. A hole in the ground excavated by an animal, as a rabbit or a marmot, as a refuge and habitation.
5. n. [Perhaps in ref. to the usually circular shape of mounds; cf. the equiv. Sc. brough, otherwise referred to burrow = borough = brough, q. v. In mod. English dial. abbr. burr.] A circle. Compare bur, burr, 2.
6. To make a hole or burrow to lodge in, as in the earth; work a way into or under something.
7. To lodge in a burrow; in a more general sense, to lodge in any deep or concealed place; hide.
8. To perforate with a burrow or as with burrows.
9. n. A variant of borrow.

Wiktionary

1. n. A tunnel or hole, often as dug by a small creature.
2. v. To dig a tunnel or hole.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. An incorporated town. See 1st borough.
2. n. A shelter; esp. a hole in the ground made by certain animals, as rabbits, for shelter and habitation.
3. n. (Mining) A heap or heaps of rubbish or refuse.
4. n. A mound. See 3d Barrow, and Camp, n., 5.
5. v. To excavate a hole to lodge in, as in the earth; to lodge in a hole excavated in the earth, as conies or rabbits.
6. v. To lodge, or take refuge, in any deep or concealed place; to hide.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. move through by or as by digging
2. n. a hole made by an animal, usually for shelter