BPage 439
- English Word Bucentaur Definition The state barge of Venice, used by the doge in the ceremony of espousing the Adriatic.
- English Word Buceros Definition A genus of large perching birds; the hornbills.
- English Word Bucholzite Definition Same as Fibrolite.
- English Word Buchu Definition 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.
- English Word Buck Definition Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
- English Word Buck Definition The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
- English Word Buck Definition To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching.
- English Word Buck Definition To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
- English Word Buck Definition To break up or pulverize, as ores.
- English Word Buck Definition The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.
- English Word Buck Definition A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.
- English Word Buck Definition A male Indian or negro.
- English Word Buck Definition To copulate, as bucks and does.
- English Word Buck Definition 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.
- English Word Buck Definition 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.
- English Word Buck Definition To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2.
- English Word Buck Definition A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
- English Word Buck Definition The beech tree.
- English Word Buck bean Definition 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.
- English Word Buck's-horn Definition A plant with leaves branched somewhat like a buck's horn (Plantago Coronopus); also, Lobelia coronopifolia.