Anagrams of: BURLESQUES__

• a card game played with a pack of forty-eight cards (two of each suit for high cards); play resembles whist

• a card game played with a pack of forty-eight cards (two of each suit for high cards); play resembles whist

• a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed

• a signaling device that makes a buzzing sound

• a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed

• a signaling device that makes a buzzing sound

• A continuous, humming noise, as of bees; a confused murmur, as of general conversation in low tones.

• A whisper.

• The audible friction of voice consonants.

• A rush or feeling of energy or excitement; a feeling of slight intoxication.

• A telephone call or e-mail.

• Major topic of conversation; widespread rumor; information spread behind the scenes.

• To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings.

• To show a high level of activity and haste (alluding to the common simile "busy as a bee"). Often in the colloquial imperative "Buzz off!"

• To whisper; to communicate, as tales, in an undertone; to spread, as a report, by whispers or secretly.

• To talk to incessantly or confidentially in a low humming voice.

• To fly at high speed and at a very low altitude over a specified area, as to make a surprise pass.

• To cut the hair in a close-cropped military style, or buzzcut.

• To drink to the bottom.

• To communicate with (a person) by means of a buzzer.

• (now only in plural) Funeral rites.

• An obsolete matchlock firearm.

• A portable gun, varying in size from a small cannon to a musket. When used in the field it was supported upon a tripod or trestle.