BPage 295
- English Word Buckler-headed Definition Having a head like a buckler.
- English Word Buckling Definition of Buckle
- English Word Buckling Definition Wavy; curling, as hair.
- English Word Buckra Definition A white man; -- a term used by negroes of the African coast, West Indies, etc.
- English Word Buckra Definition White; white man's; strong; good; as, buckra yam, a white yam.
- English Word Buckram Definition A coarse cloth of linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise.
- English Word Buckram Definition A plant. See Ramson.
- English Word Buckram Definition Made of buckram; as, a buckram suit.
- English Word Buckram Definition Stiff; precise.
- English Word Buckram Definition To strengthen with buckram; to make stiff.
- English Word Buckshot Definition A coarse leaden shot, larger than swan shot, used in hunting deer and large game.
- English Word Buckskin Definition The skin of a buck.
- English Word Buckskin Definition A soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin.
- English Word Buckskin Definition A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war.
- English Word Buckskin Definition Breeches made of buckskin.
- English Word Buckstall Definition A toil or net to take deer.
- English Word Buckthorn Definition A genus (Rhamnus) of shrubs or trees. The shorter branches of some species terminate in long spines or thorns. See Rhamnus.
- English Word Bucktooth Definition Any tooth that juts out.
- English Word Buckwheat Definition A plant (Fagopyrum esculentum) of the Polygonum family, the seed of which is used for food.
- English Word Buckwheat Definition The triangular seed used, when ground, for griddle cakes, etc.
- English Word Bucolic Definition Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.
- English Word Bucolic Definition A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil.
- English Word Bucolical Definition Bucolic.
- English Word Bucrania Definition of Bucranium
- English Word Bucranium Definition A sculptured ornament, representing an ox skull adorned with wreaths, etc.
- English Word Bud Definition A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an undeveloped branch or flower.
- English Word Bud Definition A small protuberance on certain low forms of animals and vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or attached. See Hydra.
- English Word Bud Definition To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot.
- English Word Bud Definition To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
- English Word Bud Definition To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin.