Bubonic Bu·bon"ic (bu*bŏn"ĭk) adjective Of or pertaining to a bubo or buboes; characterized by buboes.

Bubonocele Bu·bon"o·cele (bu*bŏn"o*sēl) noun [ Greek boubw`n groin + ... tumor: confer French bubonocèle .] (Medicine) 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.

Bubukle Bu"bu·kle noun A red pimple. [ R.] Shak.

Buccal Buc"cal adjective [ Latin bucca cheek: confer French buccal .] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the mouth or cheeks.

Buccan Buc"can noun [ French boucan . See Buccaneer .] 1. A wooden frame or grid for roasting, smoking, or drying meat over fire.

2. A place where meat is smoked.

3. Buccaned meat.

Buccan Buc"can transitive verb [ French boucaner . See Buccaneer .] To expose (meat) in strips to fire and smoke upon a buccan.

Buccaneer Buc`ca·neer" noun [ French boucanier , from 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 .]

» 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 Hayti or Hispaniola, whose business was to hunt wild cattle and swine.

Buccaneer Buc`ca·neer" intransitive verb To act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical adventurer or sea robber.

Buccaneerish Buc`ca·neer"ish adjective Like a buccaneer; piratical.

Buccinal Buc"ci·nal adjective [ Latin bucina a crooked horn or trumpet.] Shaped or sounding like a trumpet; trumpetlike.

Buccinator Buc`ci·na"tor noun [ Latin , a trumpeter, from bucinare to sound the trumpet.] (Anat.) A muscle of the cheek; -- so called from its use in blowing wind instruments.

Buccinoid Buc"ci·noid adjective [ Buccinum + - oid .] (Zoology) Resembling the genus Buccinum, or pertaining to the Buccinidæ , a family of marine univalve shells. See Whelk , and Prosobranchiata .

Buccinum Buc"ci·num noun [ Latin , a trumpet, a trumpet shell.] (Zoology) A genus of large univalve mollusks abundant in the arctic seas. It includes the common whelk ( B. undatum ).

Bucentaur Bu·cen"taur noun [ Greek boy^s ox + ke`ntayros centaur.] 1. A fabulous monster, half ox, half man.

2. [ Italian bucentoro .] The state barge of Venice, used by the doge in the ceremony of espousing the Adriatic.

Bucephalus Bu·ceph"a·lus noun [ Latin , from Greek ..., lit., ox-headed; ... ox + ... head.] 1. The celebrated war horse of Alexander the Great.

2. Hence, any riding horse. [ Jocose] Sir W. Scott .

Buceros Bu"ce·ros noun [ Greek boy`kerws horned like an ox; boy^s ox + ke`ras horn.] (Zoology) A genus of large perching birds; the hornbills.

Bucholzite Buch"ol·zite noun [ So called from Bucholz , a German chemist.] (Min.) Same as Fibrolite .

Buchu Bu"chu noun (Botany) 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.

Buck Buck (bŭk) noun [ Akin to LG. büke , Danish byg , Swedish byk , German bauche : confer Italian bucato , Prov. Spanish bugada , French buée .] 1. Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.

2. The cloth or clothes soaked or washed. [ Obsolete] Shak.

Buck Buck transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Bucked (bŭkt); present participle & verbal noun Bucking .] [ Middle English bouken ; akin to LG. büken , Danish byge , Swedish byka , German bauchen , beuchen ; confer Old French buer . Confer the preceding noun.] 1. To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching.

2. To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.

3. (Mining) To break up or pulverize, as ores.

Buck Buck noun [ Middle English buk , bucke , Anglo-Saxon bucca , bua , he-goat; akin to Dutch bok , Old High German pocch , German bock , Ir. boc , W. bwch , Corn. byk ; confer Zend būza , Sanskrit bukka . √256. Confer Butcher , noun ] 1. The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.

» 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.

2. A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.

The leading bucks of the day.
Thackeray.

3. A male Indian or negro. [ Colloq. U.S.]

» The word buck is much used in composition for the names of antelopes; as, bush buck , spring buck .

Blue buck . See under Blue . -- Water buck , a South African variety of antelope ( Kobus ellipsiprymnus ). See Illust. of Antelope .

Buck Buck (bŭk) intransitive verb 1. To copulate, as bucks and does.

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.

Buck Buck transitive verb 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.

2. To throw by bucking. See Buck , intransitive verb , 2.

The brute that he was riding had nearly bucked him out of the saddle.
W. E. Norris.

Buck Buck noun A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.

Buck saw , a saw set in a frame and used for sawing wood on a sawhorse.

Buck Buck noun [ See Beech , noun ] The beech tree. [ Scot.]

Buck mast , the mast or fruit of the beech tree. Johnson.

Buck bean Buck" bean` (bēn`). (Botany) A plant ( Menyanthes trifoliata ) which grows in moist and boggy places, having racemes of white or reddish flowers and intensely bitter leaves, sometimes used in medicine; marsh trefoil; -- called also bog bean .

Buck fever Buck fever Intense excitement at the sight of deer or other game, such as often unnerves a novice in hunting. [ Colloq.]

Buck-basket Buck"-bas`ket noun [ See 1st Buck .] A basket in which clothes are carried to the wash. Shak.

Buck-eyed Buck"-eyed` adjective Having bad or speckled eyes. "A buck-eyed horse." James White.

Buck's-horn Buck's"-horn` noun (Botany) A plant with leaves branched somewhat like a buck's horn ( Plantago Coronopus ); also, Lobelia coronopifolia .

Buckboard Buck"board` noun 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 .

Bucker Buck"er noun (Mining) 1. One who bucks ore.

2. A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore.

Bucker Buck"er noun A horse or mule that bucks.

Bucket Buck"et noun [ Middle English boket ; confer Anglo-Saxon 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.

The old oaken bucket , the iron-bound bucket ,
The moss-covered bucket , which hung in the well.
Wordsworth.

2. A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc.

3. (Machinery) 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.

4. The valved piston of a lifting pump.

Fire bucket , a bucket for carrying water to put out fires. -- To kick the bucket , to die. [ Low]

Bucket Buck"et transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Bucketed ; present participle & verbal noun Bucketing .] 1. To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets; as, to bucket water.

2. To pour over from a bucket; to drench.

3. To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.

4. (Rowing) To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body. [ Eng.]

Bucket shop Buck"et shop` An office or a place where facilities are given for betting small sums on current prices of stocks, petroleum, etc. [ Slang, U.S.]

Buckety Buck"et·y noun [ A corruption of buckwheat .] Paste used by weavers to dress their webs. Buchanan.

Buckeye Buck"eye` (bŭk"ī`) noun 1. (Botany) A name given to several American trees and shrubs of the same genus ( Æsculus ) as the horse chestnut.

The Ohio buckeye , or Fetid buckeye , is Æsculus glabra . -- Red buckeye is Æ. Pavia . -- Small buckeye is Æ. paviflora . -- Sweet buckeye , or Yellow buckeye , is Æ. flava .

2. A cant name for a native in Ohio. [ U.S.]

Buckeye State , Ohio; -- so called because buckeye trees abound there.

Buckhound Buck"hound` noun A hound for hunting deer.

Master of the buckhounds , an officer in the royal household. [ Eng.]

Buckie Buck"ie noun (Zoology) A large spiral marine shell, esp. the common whelk. See Buccinum . [ Scot.]

Deil's buckie , a perverse, refractory youngster. [ Slang]

Bucking Buck"ing noun 1. The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching; also, the liquid used. Tomlinson.

2. A washing.

3. The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores.

Bucking iron (Mining) , a broad-faced hammer, used in bucking or breaking up ores. -- Bucking kier (Manuf.) , a large circular boiler, or kier, used in bleaching. -- Bucking stool , a washing block.

Buckish Buck"ish adjective Dandified; foppish.

Buckle Buc"kle noun [ Middle English bocle buckle, boss of a shield, Old French bocle , French boucle , boss of a shield, ring, from Latin 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.

2. A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal. Knight.

3. A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.

Earlocks in tight buckles on each side of a lantern face.
W. Irving.

Lets his wig lie in buckle for a whole half year.
Addison.

4. A contorted expression, as of the face. [ R.]

'Gainst nature armed by gravity,
His features too in buckle see.
Churchill.

Buckle Buc"kle transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Buckled ; present participle & verbal noun Buckling .] [ Middle English boclen , French boucler . See Buckle , noun ] 1. To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles; as, to buckle a harness.

2. To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted.

3. To prepare for action; to apply with vigor and earnestness; -- generally used reflexively.

Cartwright buckled himself to the employment.
Fuller.

4. To join in marriage. [ Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

Buckle Buc"kle (bŭk"k'l) intransitive verb 1. To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink.

Buckled with the heat of the fire like parchment.
Pepys.

2. To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall.

3. To yield; to give way; to cease opposing. [ Obsolete]

The Dutch, as high as they seem, do begin to buckle .
Pepys.

4. To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close fight; to struggle; to contend.

The bishop was as able and ready to buckle with the Lord Protector as he was with him.
Latimer.

In single combat thou shalt buckle with me.
Shak.

To buckle to , to bend to; to engage with zeal.

To make our sturdy humor buckle there to .
Barrow.

Before buckling to my winter's work.
J. D. Forbes.

Buckler Buc"kler noun [ Middle English bocler , Old French bocler , French bouclier , a shield with a boss, from Old French bocle , boucle , boss. See Buckle , noun ] 1. A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, worn on one of the arms (usually the left) for protecting the front of the body.

» In the sword and buckler play of the Middle Ages in England, the buckler was a small shield, used, not to cover the body, but to stop or parry blows.

2. (Zoology) (a) One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes. (b) The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites.

3. (Nautical) A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches.

Blind buckler (Nautical) , a solid buckler. -- Buckler mustard (Botany) , a genus of plants ( Biscutella ) with small bright yellow flowers. The seed vessel on bursting resembles two bucklers or shields. -- Buckler thorn , a plant with seed vessels shaped like a buckler. See Christ's thorn . -- Riding buckler (Nautical) , a buckler with a hole for the passage of a cable.

Buckler Buc"kler transitive verb To shield; to defend. [ Obsolete]

Can Oxford, that did ever fence the right,
Now buckler falsehood with a pedigree?
Shak.

Buckler-headed Buc"kler-head`ed adjective Having a head like a buckler.

Buckling Buc"kling adjective Wavy; curling, as hair. Latham.

Buckra Buck"ra noun [ In the language of the Calabar coast, buckra means "demon, a powerful and superior being." J. Latin Wilson. ] A white man; -- a term used by negroes of the African coast, West Indies, etc.

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