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Bryony (brī�n�), n. [L. bryonia, Gr. brywnia, fr. bryein to swell, esp. of plants.] (Bot.) The common name of several cucurbitaceous plants of the genus Bryonia. The root of Bryonia alba (rough bryony or white bryony) and of Bryonia dioica is a strong, irritating cathartic.
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Coloq. Black bryony , a plant (Tamus communis) so named from its dark glossy leaves and black root; black bindweed.
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Bryophyta (�), n. pl. See .
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bryophyte n. any of numerous plants of the division .
Syn. -- nonvascular plant.
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bryophytic adj. of or pertaining to bryophytes.
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Bryopsida n. the class of plants comprising the true mosses, having leafy rather than thalloid gametophytes; it comprises the orders Andreaeales; Bryales; Dicranales; Eubryales; and Sphagnales.
Syn. -- class Bryopsida, Musci, class Musci.
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Bryozoa (�), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. � moss + � animal.] (Zoöl.) A class of Molluscoidea, including minute animals which by budding form compound colonies; -- called also Polyzoa.
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☞ They are often coralike in form and appearance, each small cell containing an individual zooid. Other species grow in delicate, flexible, branched forms, resembling moss, whence the name. Some are found in fresh water, but most are marine. The three principal divisions are Ectoprocta, Entoprocta, and Pterobranchia. See , , and .
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Bryozoan (�), a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Bryozoa. -- n. One of the Bryozoa.
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Bryozoum (�), n. [NL. See .] (Zoöl.) An individual zooid of a bryozoan coralline, of which there may be two or more kinds in a single colony. The zoœcia usually have a wreath of tentacles around the mouth, and a well developed stomach and intestinal canal; but these parts are lacking in the other zooids (Avicularia, Oœcia, etc.).
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Buansuah (�), n. [Native name.] (Zoöl.) The wild dog of northern India (Cuon primævus), supposed by some to be an ancestral species of the domestic dog.
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Buat (�), n. [Scot., of uncertain origin.] A lantern; also, the moon. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.
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Bub (�), n. Strong malt liquor. [Cant] Prior.
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Bub, n. [Cf. 2d .] A young brother; a little boy; -- a familiar term of address of a small boy.
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Bub, v. t. [Abbrev. from .] To throw out in bubbles; to bubble. [Obs.] Sackville.
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Bubale (�), n. [Cf. F. bubale. See , n.] (Zoöl.) A large antelope (Alcelaphus bubalis) of Egypt and the Desert of Sahara, supposed by some to be the fallow deer of the Bible.
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Bubaline (�), a. (Zoöl.) Resembling a buffalo.
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Coloq. Bubaline antelope (Zoöl.), the bubale.
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Bubalus n. a genus of ruminants which in some classification systems is included in the genus Bos; the water buffaloes.
Syn. -- genus Bubalus, tribe Bubalus.
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Bubble (�), n. [Cf. D. bobbel, Dan. boble, Sw. bubbla. Cf. , n.] 1. A thin film of liquid inflated with air or gas; as, a soap bubble; bubbles on the surface of a river.
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Beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow,
Like bubbles in a late disturbed stream. Shak.
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2. A small quantity of air or gas within a liquid body; as, bubbles rising in champagne or aërated waters.
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3. A globule of air, or globular vacuum, in a transparent solid; as, bubbles in window glass, or in a lens.
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4. A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
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5. The globule of air in the spirit tube of a level.
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6. Anything that wants firmness or solidity; that which is more specious than real; a false show; a cheat or fraud; a delusive scheme; an empty project; a dishonest speculation; as, the South Sea bubble.
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Then a soldier . . .
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. Shak.
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7. A person deceived by an empty project; a gull. [Obs.] “Ganny's a cheat, and I'm a bubble.” Prior.
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Bubble, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bubbled (�); p. pr. & vb. n. Bubbling (�).] [Cf. D. bobbelen, Dan. boble. See , n.] 1. To rise in bubbles, as liquids when boiling or agitated; to contain bubbles.
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The milk that bubbled in the pail. Tennyson.
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2. To run with a gurgling noise, as if forming bubbles; as, a bubbling stream. Pope.
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3. To sing with a gurgling or warbling sound.
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At mine ear
Bubbled the nightingale and heeded not. Tennyson.
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Bubbler, v. t. To cheat; to deceive.
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She has bubbled him out of his youth. Addison.
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The great Locke, who was seldom outwitted by false sounds, was nevertheless bubbled here. Sterne.
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Bubbler (�), n. 1. One who cheats.
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All the Jews, jobbers, bubblers, subscribers, projectors, etc. Pope.
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2. (Zoöl.) A fish of the Ohio river; -- so called from the noise it makes.
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Bubble shell (�). (Zoöl.) A marine univalve shell of the genus Bulla and allied genera, belonging to the Tectibranchiata.
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bubbling adj. 1. giving off bubbles; -- of a liquid. [Narrower terms: foaming, frothing; effervescent; boiling]
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2. stimulatingly lively, witty, and entertaining; -- of people.
Syn. -- effervescent, scintillating, sparkling, sparkly, vivacious.
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Bubbling Jock (�) (Zoöl.) The male wild turkey, the gobbler; -- so called in allusion to its notes.
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Bubbly (�), a. Abounding in bubbles; bubbling. Nash.
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Bubby (bŭbb�), n. [Cf. Prov. G. bübbi, or It. poppa, Pr. popa, OF. poupe, a woman's breast.] A woman's breast. [Low]
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Bubby, n. [A corruption of brother.] Bub; -- a term of familiar or affectionate address to a small boy.
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Bubo (būb�), n.; pl. Buboes (-b�z). [LL. bubo the groin, a swelling in the groin, Gr. boubwn.] (Med.) An inflammation, with enlargement, of a lymphatic gland, esp. in the groin, as in syphilis.
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Bubonic (b�bŏnĭk), a. Of or pertaining to a bubo or buboes; characterized by buboes.
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Bubonic plague. (Med.) a severe and often fatal disease caused by infection with the bacterium Yersinia pestis (formerly Pasteurella pestis), transmitted to man by the bite of fleas, themselves usually infected by biting infected rodents. It is characterized by the formation of buboes, most notably on the groin and armpits, and accompanied by weakness and high fever. The disease was known as the black death, and was responsible for several devastating plagues throughout the middle ages. When lungs became infected, the disease was called the pneumonic plague. It is still found occasionally in poor areas of undeveloped countries but is rare in developed countries.
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Bubonocele (b�bŏn�sēl), n. [Gr. boubwn groin + � tumor: cf. F. bubonocèle.] (Med.) An inguinal hernia; esp. that incomplete variety in which the hernial pouch descends only as far as the groin, forming a swelling there like a bubo.
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Bubukle (�), n. A red pimple. [R.] Shak.
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Buccal (�), a. [L. bucca cheek: cf. F. buccal.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the mouth or cheeks.
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Buccan (?), n. [F. boucan. See .] 1. A wooden frame or grid for roasting, smoking, or drying meat over fire.
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2. A place where meat is smoked.
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3. Buccaned meat.
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Buccan, v. t. [F. boucaner. See .] To expose (meat) in strips to fire and smoke upon a buccan.
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Buccaneer (�), n. [F. boucanier, fr. boucaner to smoke or broil meat and fish, to hunt wild beasts for their skins, boucan a smoking place for meat or fish, gridiron for smoking: a word of American origin.] A robber upon the sea; a pirate; -- a term applied especially to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on the Spaniards in America in the 17th and 18th centuries. [Written also bucanier.]
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☞ Primarily, one who dries and smokes flesh or fish after the manner of the Indians. The name was first given to the French settlers in Haiti or Hispaniola, whose business was to hunt wild cattle and swine.
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Buccaneer, v. i. To act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical adventurer or sea robber.
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Buccaneerish, a. Like a buccaneer; piratical.
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Buccinal (�), a. [L. bucina a crooked horn or trumpet.] Shaped or sounding like a trumpet; trumpetlike.
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Buccinator (�), n. [L., a trumpeter, fr. bucinare to sound the trumpet.] (Anat.) A muscle of the cheek; -- so called from its use in blowing wind instruments.
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Buccinoid (�), a. [Buccinum + -oid.] (Zoöl.) Resembling the genus Buccinum, or pertaining to the Buccinidæ, a family of marine univalve shells. See , and .
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Buccinum (�), prop. n. [L., a trumpet, a trumpet shell.] (Zoöl.) A genus of large univalve mollusks abundant in the arctic seas. It includes the common whelk (Buccinum undatum).
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Bucentaur (�), n. [Gr. boy^s ox + kentayros centaur.] 1. A fabulous monster, half ox, half man.
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2. [It. bucentoro.] The state barge of Venice, used by the doge in the ceremony of espousing the Adriatic.
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Bucephalus (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. �, lit., ox-headed; � ox + � head.] 1. The celebrated war horse of Alexander the Great.
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2. Hence, any riding horse. [Jocose] Sir W. Scott.
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Buceros (�), n. [Gr. boykerws horned like an ox; boy^s ox + keras horn.] (Zoöl.) A genus of large perching birds; the hornbills.
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Buchloe n. a genus of grasses comprising buffalo grass.
Syn. -- genus Buchloe.
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Bucholzite (�), n. [So called from Bucholz, a German chemist.] (Min.) Same as .
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Buchu (�), n. (Bot.) A South African shrub (Barosma) with small leaves that are dotted with oil glands; also, the leaves themselves, which are used in medicine for diseases of the urinary organs, etc. Several species furnish the leaves.
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Buck (bŭk), n. [Akin to LG. büke, Dan. byg, Sw. byk, G. bauche: cf. It. bucato, Prov. Sp. bugada, F. buée.] 1. Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
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2. The cloth or clothes soaked or washed. [Obs.] Shak.
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Buck, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bucked (bŭkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Bucking.] [OE. bouken; akin to LG. büken, Dan. byge, Sw. byka, G. bauchen, beuchen; cf. OF. buer. Cf. the preceding noun.] 1. To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching.
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2. To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
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3. (Mining) To break up or pulverize, as ores.
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Buck (bŭk), n. [OE. buk, bucke, AS. bucca, bua, he-goat; akin to D. bok, OHG. pocch, G. bock, Ir. boc, W. bwch, Corn. byk; cf. Zend būza, Skr. bukka. √256. Cf. , n.] 1. The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.
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☞ A male fallow deer is called a fawn in his first year; a pricket in his second; a sorel in his third; a sore in his fourth; a buck of the first head in his fifth; and a great buck in his sixth. The female of the fallow deer is termed a doe. The male of the red deer is termed a stag or hart and not a buck, and the female is called a hind. Brande & C.
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2. A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.
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The leading bucks of the day. Thackeray.
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3. A male Indian or negro. [Colloq. U.S.]
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☞ The word buck is much used in composition for the names of antelopes; as, bush buck, spring buck.
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Coloq. Blue buck . See under . -- Coloq. Water buck , a South African variety of antelope (Kobus ellipsiprymnus). See Illust. of .
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Buck (bŭk), v. i. 1. To copulate, as bucks and does.
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2. To spring with quick plunging leaps, descending with the fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; -- said of a vicious horse or mule.
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Buck, v. t. 1. (Mil.) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.
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2. To throw by bucking. See , v. i., 2.
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The brute that he was riding had nearly bucked him out of the saddle. W. E. Norris.
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Buck, n. A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
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Coloq. Buck saw , a saw set in a frame and used for sawing wood on a sawhorse.
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Buck, n. [See , n.] The beech tree. [Scot.]
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Coloq. Buck mast , the mast or fruit of the beech tree. Johnson.
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buckaroo n. 1. [fr. Sp. vaquero.]a cowboy, especially used of one who breaks broncos; -- used especially in California.
Syn. -- vaquero.
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2. a fellow; a guy. [slang]
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Buck-basket (�), n. [See 1st .] A basket in which clothes are carried to the wash. Shak.
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buckbean, Buck bean (bēn). (Bot.) A perennial plant (Menyanthes trifoliata) of Europe and America which grows in moist and boggy places, having racemes of white, reddish, or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves, sometimes used in medicine; marsh trefoil; -- called also bog bean. It often roots at the water margin and spreads across the surface.
Syn. -- water shamrock, bogbean, bog myrtle, marsh trefoil, Menyanthes trifoliata.
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Buckboard (�), n. A four-wheeled vehicle, having a long elastic board or frame resting on the bolsters or axletrees, and a seat or seats placed transversely upon it; -- called also buck wagon.
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Bucker (�), n. (Mining) 1. One who bucks ore.
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2. A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore.
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Bucker, n. A horse or mule that bucks.
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Bucket (�), n. [OE. boket; cf. AS. buc pitcher, or Corn. buket tub.] 1. A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids.
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The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket,
The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well. Wordsworth.
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2. A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc.
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3. (Mach.) One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddle wheel.
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4. The valved piston of a lifting pump.
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5. (Mach.) one of vanes on the rotor of a turbine.
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6. (Mach.) a .
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Coloq. Fire bucket , a bucket for carrying water to put out fires. -- Coloq. To kick the bucket , to die. [Low]
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Bucket (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bucketed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Bucketing.] 1. To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets; as, to bucket water.
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2. To pour over from a bucket; to drench.
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3. To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
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4. (Rowing) To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body. [Eng.]
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Bucket shop (�). An office or a place where facilities are given for betting small sums on current prices of stocks, petroleum, etc. [Slang, U.S.]
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bucketful, Bucketfull (�). a bucket filled with a substance, or the quantity which would fill a bucket.
Syn. -- bucket.
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Buckety (�), n. [A corruption of buckwheat.] Paste used by weavers to dress their webs. Buchanan.
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Buckeye (bŭkī), n. 1. (Bot.) A name given to several American trees and shrubs of the same genus (Æsculus) as the horse chestnut.
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Coloq. The Ohio buckeye , or Coloq. Fetid buckeye , is Aesculus glabra. -- Coloq. Red buckeye is Aesculus Pavia. -- Coloq. Small buckeye is Aesculus paviflora. -- Coloq. Sweet buckeye , or Coloq. Yellow buckeye , is Aesculus flava.
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2. A cant name for a native or resident of Ohio. [U.S.]
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Coloq. Buckeye State , Ohio; -- so called because buckeye trees abound there.
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Buck-eyed (�), a. Having bad or speckled eyes. “A buck-eyed horse.” James White.
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Buck fever. Intense excitement at the sight of deer or other game, such as often unnerves a novice in hunting. [Colloq.]
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Buckhound (�), n. A hound for hunting deer.
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Coloq. Master of the buckhounds , an officer in the royal household. [Eng.]
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Buckie (�), n. (Zoöl.) A large spiral marine shell, esp. the common whelk. See . [Scot.]
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Coloq. Deil's buckie , a perverse, refractory youngster. [Slang]
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Bucking, n. 1. The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching; also, the liquid used. Tomlinson.
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2. A washing.
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3. The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores.
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Coloq. Bucking iron (Mining), a broad-faced hammer, used in bucking or breaking up ores. -- Coloq. Bucking kier (Manuf.), a large circular boiler, or kier, used in bleaching. -- Coloq. Bucking stool , a washing block.
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Buckish, a. Dandified; foppish.
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Buckle (�), n. [OE. bocle buckle, boss of a shield, OF. bocle, F. boucle, boss of a shield, ring, fr. L. buccula a little cheek or mouth, dim. of bucca cheek; this boss or knob resembling a cheek.] 1. A device, usually of metal, consisting of a frame with one more movable tongues or catches, used for fastening things together, as parts of dress or harness, by means of a strap passing through the frame and pierced by the tongue.
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2. A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal. Knight.
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3. A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.
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Earlocks in tight buckles on each side of a lantern face. W. Irving.
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Lets his wig lie in buckle for a whole half year. Addison.
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4. A contorted expression, as of the face. [R.]
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'Gainst nature armed by gravity,
His features too in buckle see. Churchill.
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Buckle (�), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Buckled (�); p. pr. & vb. n. Buckling.] [OE. boclen, F. boucler. See , n.] 1. To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles; as, to buckle a harness.
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2. To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted.
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3. To prepare for action; to apply with vigor and earnestness; -- formerly, generally used reflexively, but by mid 20th century, usually used with down; -- as, the programmers buckled down and worked late hours to finish the project in time for the promised delivery date.
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Cartwright buckled himself to the employment. Fuller.
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4. To join in marriage. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.
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