/berr"seuhr, -sahr/ , n.
1. a treasurer or business officer, esp. of a college or university.
2. (in the Middle Ages) a university student.
3. Chiefly Scot. a student attending a university on a scholarship.
[ 1400-50; bursarius a purse-keeper, treasurer (see BURSA, -AR 2 ); r. late ME bouser, var. of bourser borsier ]