Buat
Bu´at, n. [Scot., of uncertain origin.] A lantern; also the moon. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

Bub, n. Strong malt liquor. [Cant] Prior.

Bub, n. [Cf. 2d Bubby.] A young brother; a little boy; — a familiar term of address of a small boy.

Bub, v. t. [Abbrev. from Bubble.] To throw out in bubbles; to bubble. [Obs.] Sackville.

Bubble
Bub´ble, n. [Cf. D. bobbel, Dan. boble, Sw. bubbla. Cf. Blob, n. ]
1. A thin film of liquid inflated with air or gas; as a soap bubble; bubbles on the surface of a river.
"Beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow, Like bubbles in a late disturbed stream." - Shak.
2. A small quantity of air or gas within a liquid body; as bubbles rising in champagne or aërated waters.
3. A globule of air, or globular vacuum, in a transparent solid; as bubbles in window glass, or in a lens.
4. A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
5. The globule of air in the spirit tube of a level.
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.
"Then a soldier … Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon’s mouth." - Shak.
7. A person deceived by an empty project; a gull. [Obs.] "Ganny’s a cheat, and I’m a bubble." Prior.

Bubble
Bub´ble, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Bubbled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Bubbling .] [Cf. D. bobbelen, Dan. boble. See Bubble, n. ]
1. To rise in bubbles, as liquids when boiling or agitated; to contain bubbles.
"The milk that bubbled in the pail." - Tennyson.
2. To run with a gurgling noise, as if forming bubbles; as a bubbling stream. Pope.
3. To sing with a gurgling or warbling sound.
"At mine ear Bubbled the nightingale and heeded not." - Tennyson.

Bubbler
Bub´bler, v. t. To cheat; to deceive.
"She has bubbled him out of his youth." - Addison.
"The great Locke, who was seldom outwitted by false sounds, was nevertheless bubbled here." - Sterne.

Bubbler
Bub´bler, n.
1. One who cheats.
"All the Jews, jobbers, bubblers, subscribers, projectors, etc." - Pope.
2. (Zoöl.) A fish of the Ohio river; — so called from the noise it makes.

Bubbling Jock
Bub"bling Jock (Zoöl.) The male wild turkey, the gobbler; — so called in allusion to its notes.

Bubbly
Bub´bly, a. Abounding in bubbles; bubbling. Nash.

Bubby
Bub´by (bub"by), n. [Cf. Prov. G. bübbi, or It. poppa, Pr. popa, OF. poupe, a woman’s breast.] A woman’s breast. [Low]

Bubby
Bub´by, n. [A corruption of brother.] Bub; — a term of familiar or affectionate address to a small boy.

Bubo
Bu´bo (bu"bo), n. ; pl. Buboes (-boz). [LL. bubo the groin, a swelling in the groin, Gr. boubw•n.] (Med.) An inflammation, with enlargement, of a lymphatic gland, esp. in the groin, as in syphilis.

Bubonic
Bu•bon´ic (bu•bon"ik), a. Of or pertaining to a bubo or buboes; characterized by buboes.

Bubonocele
Bu•bon´o•cele (bu•bon"o•sel), n. [Gr. boubw•n 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.

Bubukle
Bu´bu•kle, n. A red pimple. [R.] Shak.

Buccal
Buc´cal, a. [L. bucca cheek: cf. F. buccal.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the mouth or cheeks.

Buccan
Buc´can, n. [F. 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, v. t. [F. boucaner. See Buccaneer.] To expose (meat) in strips to fire and smoke upon a buccan.

Buccaneerish
Buc•ca•neer´ish, a. Like a buccaneer; piratical.

Buccinal
Buc´ci•nal, a. [L. bucina a crooked horn or trumpet.] Shaped or sounding like a trumpet; trumpetlike.

Buccinator
Buc•ci•na´tor, 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.

Buccinoid
Buc´ci•noid, a. [ Buccinum + - oid.] (Zoöl.) Resembling the genus Buccinum, or pertaining to the Buccinidae, a family of marine univalve shells. See Whelk, and Prosobranchiata.

Bucentaur
Bu•cen´taur, n. [Gr. boy^s ox + ke•ntayros centaur.]
1. A fabulous monster, half ox, half man.
2. [It. bucentoro.] The state barge of Venice, used by the doge in the ceremony of espousing the Adriatic.

Bucephalus
Bu•ceph´a•lus, n. [L., fr. Gr., 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, n. [Gr. boy•kerws horned like an ox; boy^s ox + ke•ras horn.] (Zoöl.) A genus of large perching birds; the hornbills.

Bucholzite
Buch´ol•zite, n. [So called from Bucholz, a German chemist.] (Min.) Same as Fibrolite.

Buck (buk), n. [Akin to LG. büke, Dan. byg, Sw. byk, G. bauche: cf. It. bucato, Prov. Sp. bugada, F. buee.]
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. [Obs.] Shak.

Buck, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bucked (bukt); 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.
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, 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 buza, Skr. bukka. rad.256. Cf. Butcher, n. ]
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 (buk), v. i.
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, 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.
2. To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2.
"The brute that he was riding had nearly bucked him out of the saddle." - W. E. Norris.

Buck, n. 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, n. [See Beech, n. ] The beech tree. [Scot.] Buck mast, the mast or fruit of the beech tree. Johnson.

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

Buck’s-horn
Buck’s´-horn, n. (Bot.) A plant with leaves branched somewhat like a buck’s horn ( Plantago Coronopus); also Lobelia coronopifolia.

Buck-basket
Buck´-bas•ket, n. [See 1st Buck.] A basket in which clothes are carried to the wash. Shak.

Bucker
Buck´er, n. (Mining)
1. One who bucks ore.
2. A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore.

Bucker
Buck´er, n. A horse or mule that bucks.

Bucket
Buck´et, 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.
"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. (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.
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, 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.
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.]

Buckety
Buck´et•y, n. [A corruption of buckwheat.] Paste used by weavers to dress their webs. Buchanan.

Buckeye
Buck´eye (buk"i•), n.
1. (Bot.) A name given to several American trees and shrubs of the same genus ( AEsculus) as the horse chestnut. The Ohio buckeye, or Fetid buckeye, is AEsculus glabra. — Red buckeye is AE. Pavia. — Small buckeye is AE. paviflora. — Sweet buckeye, or Yellow buckeye, is AE. flava.
2. A cant name for a native in Ohio. [U.S.] Buckeye State, Ohio; — so called because buckeye trees abound there.

Buck-eyed
Buck´-eyed, a. Having bad or speckled eyes. "A buck-eyed horse." James White.

Buckhound
Buck´hound, n. A hound for hunting deer. Master of the buckhounds, an officer in the royal household. [Eng.]

Buckie
Buck´ie, n. (Zoöl.) A large spiral marine shell, esp. the common whelk. See Buccinum. [Scot.] Deil’s buckie, a perverse, refractory youngster. [Slang]

Buckish
Buck´ish, a. Dandified; foppish.

Buckle
Buc´kle, 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.
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, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Buckled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Buckling.] [OE. boclen, F. boucler. See Buckle, n. ]
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 (buk"k’l), v. i.
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. [Obs.]
"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, n. [OE. bocler, OF. bocler, F. bouclier, a shield with a boss, from OF. bocle, boucle, boss. See Buckle, n. ]
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. (Zoöl.) (a) One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes. (b) The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites.
3. (Naut.) 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 (Naut.), a solid buckler. — Buckler mustard (Bot.), 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 (Naut.), a buckler with a hole for the passage of a cable.

Buckler
Buc´kler, v. t. To shield; to defend. [Obs.]
"Can Oxford, that did ever fence the right, Now buckler falsehood with a pedigree?" - Shak.

Buckler-headed
Buc´kler-head•ed, a. Having a head like a buckler.

Buckling
Buc´kling, a. Wavy; curling, as hair. Latham.

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

Buckra
Buck´ra, a. White; white man’s; strong; good; as buckra yam, a white yam.

Buckram
Buck´ram, n. [OE. bokeram, bougeren, OF. boqueran, F. bougran, MHG. buckeram, LL. buchiranus, boquerannus, fr. MHG. boc, G. bock, goat (as being made of goat’s hair), or fr. F. bouracan, by transposing the letter r. See Buck, Barracan.]
1. 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. Buckram was formerly a very different material from that now known by the name. It was used for wearing apparel, etc. Beck (Draper’s Dict. ).
2. (Bot.) A plant. See Ramson. Dr. Prior.

Buckram
Buck´ram, a.
1. Made of buckram; as a buckram suit.
2. Stiff; precise. "Buckram dames." Brooke.

Buckram
Buck´ram, v. t. To strengthen with buckram; to make stiff. Cowper.

Buckshot
Buck´shot, n. A coarse leaden shot, larger than swan shot, used in hunting deer and large game.

Buckskin
Buck´skin, n.
1. The skin of a buck.
2. A soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin.
3. A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war.
"Cornwallis fought as lang’s he dought, An’ did the buckskins claw, man." - Burns.
4. pl. Breeches made of buckskin.
"I have alluded to his buckskin." - Thackeray.

Buckstall
Buck´stall, n. A toil or net to take deer.

Buckthorn
Buck´thorn, n. (Bot.) A genus ( Rhamnus) of shrubs or trees. The shorter branches of some species terminate in long spines or thorns. See Rhamnus. Sea buckthorn, a plant of the genus Hippophaë.

Buckwheat
Buck´wheat, n. [ Buck a beech tree + wheat; akin to D. boekweit, G. buchweizen.]
1. (Bot.) A plant ( Fagopyrum esculentum) of the Polygonum family, the seed of which is used for food.
2. The triangular seed used, when ground, for griddle cakes, etc.

Bucolic
Bu•col´ic, a. [L. bucolicus, Gr., fr. cowherd, herdsman; ox + (perh.) race horse; cf. Skr. kal to drive: cf. F. bucolique. See Cow the animal.] Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.

Bucolic
Bu•col´ic, n. [L. Bucolicôn poëma.] A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as the Bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil. Dryden.

Bucolical
Bu•col´ic•al, a. Bucolic.

Bucranium
Bu•cra´ni•um, n. ; pl. L. Bucrania . [L., fr. Gr. ox head.] A sculptured ornament, representing an ox skull adorned with wreaths, etc.

Bud, n. [OE. budde; cf. D. bot, G. butze, butz, the core of a fruit, bud, LG. butte in hage butte, hain butte, a hip of the dog-rose, or OF. boton, F. bouton, bud, button, OF. boter to bud, push; all akin to E. beat. See Button.]
1. (Bot.) 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.
2. (Biol.) A small protuberance on certain low forms of animals and vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or attached. See Hydra. Bud moth (Zoöl.), a lepidopterous insect of several species, which destroys the buds of fruit trees; esp. Tmetocera ocellana and Eccopsis malana on the apple tree.

Bud, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Budded; p. pr. & vb. n. Budding.]
1. To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot.
2. To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
3. To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as a budding virgin. Shak.
Syn. — To sprout; germinate; blossom.

Bud, v. t. To graft, as a plant with another or into another, by inserting a bud from the one into an opening in the bark of the other, in order to raise, upon the budded stock, fruit different from that which it would naturally bear.
"The apricot and the nectarine may be, and usually are, budded upon the peach; the plum and the peach are budded on each other." - Farm. Dict.

Buddha
Bud´dha, n. [Skr. buddha wise, sage, fr. budh to know.] The title of an incarnation of self- abnegation, virtue, and wisdom, or a deified religious teacher of the Buddhists, esp. Gautama Siddartha or Sakya Sinha (or Muni), the founder of Buddhism.

Buddhism
Bud´dhism, n. The religion based upon the doctrine originally taught by the Hindoo sage Gautama Siddartha, surnamed Buddha, "the awakened or enlightened," in the sixth century b. c., and adopted as a religion by the greater part of the inhabitants of Central and Eastern Asia and the Indian Islands. Buddha’s teaching is believed to have been atheistic; yet it was characterized by elevated humanity and morality. It presents release from existence (a beatific enfranchisement, Nirvâna) as the greatest good. Buddhists believe in transmigration of souls through all phases and forms of life. Their number was estimated in 1881 at 470,000,000.

Buddhistic
Bud•dhis´tic, a. Same as Buddhist, a.

Bude burner
Bude" burn•er . [See Bude light.] A burner consisting of two or more concentric Argand burners (the inner rising above the outer) and a central tube by which oxygen gas or common air is supplied.

Budge, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Budged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Budging.] [F. bouger to stir, move (akin to Pr. bojar, bolegar, to stir, move, It. bulicare to boil, bubble), fr. L. bullire. See Boil, v. i.] To move off; to stir; to walk away.
"I’ll not budge an inch, boy." - Shak.
"The mouse ne’er shunned the cat as they did budge From rascals worse than they." - Shak.

Budge, a. [See Budge, v. ] Brisk; stirring; jocund. [Obs.] South.

Budge, n. [OE. bouge bag, OF. boge, bouge, fr. L. bulga a leathern bag or knapsack; a Gallic word; cf. OIr. bolc, Gael. bolg. Cf. Budge, n. ] A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on; — used formerly as an edging and ornament, esp. of scholastic habits.

Budge, a.
1. Lined with budge; hence, scholastic. "Budge gowns." Milton.
2. Austere or stiff, like scholastics.
"Those budge doctors of the stoic fur." - Milton.
Budge bachelor, one of a company of men clothed in long gowns lined with budge, who formerly accompanied the lord mayor of London in his inaugural procession. — Budge barrel (Mil.), a small copper-hooped barrel with only one head, the other end being closed by a piece of leather, which is drawn together with strings like a purse. It is used for carrying powder from the magazine to the battery, in siege or seacoast service.

Budgeness
Budge´ness, n. Sternness; severity. [Obs.]
"A Sara for goodness, a great Bellona for budgeness." - Stanyhurst.

Budger
Budg´er, n. One who budges. Shak.

budgerow
budg´e•row, n. [Hindi bajra.] A large and commodious, but generally cumbrous and sluggish boat, used for journeys on the Ganges.

Budget
Budg´et, n. [OE. bogett, bouget, F. bougette bag, wallet, dim. of OF. boge, bouge, leather bag. See Budge, n. , and cf. Bouget.]
1. A bag or sack with its contents; hence, a stock or store; an accumulation; as a budget of inventions.
2. The annual financial statement which the British chancellor of the exchequer makes in the House of Commons. It comprehends a general view of the finances of the country, with the proposed plan of taxation for the ensuing year. The term is sometimes applied to a similar statement in other countries. To open the budget, to lay before a legislative body the financial estimates and plans of the executive government.

Buff (buf), n. [OE. buff, buffe, buff, buffalo, F. buffle buffalo. See Buffalo.]
1. A sort of leather, prepared from the skin of the buffalo, dressed with oil, like chamois; also the skins of oxen, elks, and other animals, dressed in like manner. "A suit of buff." Shak.
2. The color of buff; a light yellow, shading toward pink, gray, or brown.
"A visage rough, Deformed, unfeatured, and a skin of buff." - Dryden.
3. A military coat, made of buff leather. Shak.
4. (Med.) The grayish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat. See Buffy coat, under Buffy, a.
5. (Mech.) A wheel covered with buff leather, and used in polishing cutlery, spoons, etc.
6. The bare skin; as to strip to the buff. [Colloq.]
"To be in buff is equivalent to being naked." - Wright.

Buff, a.
1. Made of buff leather. Goldsmith.
2. Of the color of buff. Buff coat, a close, military outer garment, with short sleeves, and laced tightly over the chest, made of buffalo skin, or other thick and elastic material, worn by soldiers in the 17th century as a defensive covering. — Buff jerkin, originally, a leather waistcoat; afterward, one of cloth of a buff color. [Obs.] Nares. — Buff stick (Mech.), a strip of wood covered with buff leather, used in polishing.

Buff, v. t. To polish with a buff. See Buff, n. , 5.

Buff, v. t. [OF. bufer to cuff, buffet. See Buffet a blow.] To strike. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Buff, n. [See Buffet.] A buffet; a blow; — obsolete except in the phrase "Blindman’s buff."
"Nathless so sore a buff to him it lent That made him reel." - Spenser.

Buff, a. [Of uncertain etymol.] Firm; sturdy.
"And for the good old cause stood buff, ’Gainst many a bitter kick and cuff." - Hudibras.

Buffa
Buf´fa, n. fem. (Mus.) [It. See Buffoon.] The comic actress in an opera. — a. Comic, farcical. Aria buffa, a droll or comic air. — Opera buffa, a comic opera. See Opera bouffe.

Buffet
Buf•fet´ (boof•fa"), n. [F. buffet, LL. bufetum; of uncertain origin; perh. fr. the same source as E. buffet a blow, the root meaning to puff, hence (cf. puffed up) the idea of ostentation or display.]
1. A cupboard or set of shelves, either movable or fixed at one side of a room, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard.
"Not when a gilt buffet’s reflected pride Turns you from sound philosophy aside." - Pope.
2. A counter for refreshments; a restaurant at a railroad station, or place of public gathering.

Buffet
Buf´fet (buf"fet), n. [OE. buffet, boffet, OF. buffet a slap in the face, a pair of bellows, fr. buffe blow, cf. F. bouffer to blow, puff; prob. akin to E. puff. For the meaning slap, blow, cf. F. soufflet a slap, souffler to blow. See Puff, v. i., and cf. Buffet sidebroad, Buffoon]
1. A blow with the hand; a slap on the face; a cuff.
"When on his cheek a buffet fell." - Sir W. Scott.
2. A blow from any source, or that which affects like a blow, as the violence of winds or waves; a stroke; an adverse action; an affliction; a trial; adversity.
"Those planks of tough and hardy oak that used for yeas to brave the buffets of the Bay of Biscay." - Burke.
"Fortune’s buffets and rewards." - Shak.
3. A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter.
"Go fetch us a light buffet." - Townely Myst.

Buffet
Buf´fet, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Buffeted; p. pr. & vb. n. Buffeting.] [OE. buffeten, OF. buffeter. See the preceding noun.]
1. To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat; to cuff; to slap.
"They spit in his face and buffeted him." - Matt. xxvi. 67.
2. To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against; as to buffet the billows.
"The sudden hurricane in thunder roars, Buffets the bark, and whirls it from the shores." - Broome.
"You are lucky fellows who can live in a dreamland of your own, instead of being buffeted about the world." - W. Black.
3. [Cf. Buffer.] To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.

Buffet
Buf´fet, v. i.
1. To exercise or play at boxing; to strike; to smite; to strive; to contend.
"If I might buffet for my love, or bound my horse for her favors, I could lay on like a butcher." - Shak.
2. To make one’s way by blows or struggling.
"Strove to buffet to land in vain." - Tennyson.

Buffeter
Buf´fet•er, n. One who buffets; a boxer. Jonson.

Buffeting
Buf´fet•ing, n.
1. A striking with the hand.
2. A succession of blows; continued violence, as of winds or waves; afflictions; adversity.
"He seems to have been a plant of slow growth, but … fitted to endure the buffeting on the rudest storm." - Wirt.

Buffin
Buf´fin, n. [So called from resembling buff eather.] A sort of coarse stuff; as buffin gowns. [Obs.]

Buffing apparatus
Buff"ing ap•pa•ra"tus . See Buffer, 1.

Bufflehead
Buf´fle•head, n. [ Buffle + head.]
1. One who has a large head; a heavy, stupid fellow. [Obs.]
"What makes you stare so, bufflehead? Plautus (trans. 1694)."
2. (Zoöl.) The buffel duck. See Buffel duck.

Buffo
Buf´fo, n.masc. [It. See Buffoon.] (Mus.) The comic actor in an opera.

Buffoonery
Buf•foon´er•y, n. ; pl. Buffooneries . [F. bouffonnerie.] The arts and practices of a buffoon, as low jests, ridiculous pranks, vulgar tricks and postures.
"Nor that it will ever constitute a wit to conclude a tart piece of buffoonery with a "What makes you blush?"" - Spectator.

Buffoonish
Buf•foon´ish, a. Like a buffoon; consisting in low jests or gestures. Blair.

Buffoonism
Buf•foon´ism, n. The practices of a buffoon; buffoonery.

Buffoonly
Buf•foon´ly, a. Low; vulgar. [R.]
"Apish tricks and buffoonly discourse." - Goodman.

Buffy
Buff´y, a. (Med.) Resembling, or characterized by, buff. Buffy coat, the coagulated plasma of blood when the red corpuscles have so settled out that the coagulum appears nearly colorless. This is common in diseased conditions where the corpuscles run together more rapidly and in denser masses than usual. Huxley.

Bufo
Bu´fo, n. [L. bufo a toad.] (Zoöl.) A genus of Amphibia including various species of toads.

Bufonite
Bu´fon•ite, n. [L. bufo toad: cf. F. bufonite.] (Paleon.) An old name for a fossil consisting of the petrified teeth and palatal bones of fishes belonging to the family of Pycnodonts (thick teeth), whose remains occur in the oölite and chalk formations; toadstone; — so named from a notion that it was originally formed in the head of a toad.

Bug, n. [OE. bugge, fr. W. bwg, bwgan, hobgoblin, scarecrow, bugbear. Cf. Bogey, Boggle.]
1. A bugbear; anything which terrifies. [Obs.]
"Sir, spare your threats: The bug which you would fright me with I seek." - Shak.
2. (Zoöl.) A general name applied to various insects belonging to the Hemiptera; as the squash bug; the chinch bug, etc.
3. (Zoöl.) An insect of the genus Cimex, especially the bedbug ( C. lectularius). See Bedbug.
4. (Zoöl.) One of various species of Coleoptera; as the lady bug; potato bug, etc.; loosely, any beetle.
5. (Zoöl.) One of certain kinds of Crustacea; as the sow bug; pill bug; bait bug; salve bug, etc. According to present popular usage in England, and among housekeepers in America, bug, when not joined with some qualifying word, is used specifically for bedbug. As a general term it is used very loosely in America, and was formerly used still more loosely in England. "God’s rare workmanship in the ant, the poorest bug that creeps." Rogers ( Naaman). "This bug with gilded wings." Pope. Bait bug. See under Bait. — Bug word, swaggering or threatening language. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl. { Bug•a•boo´, Bug´bear• }, n. [See Bug.] Something frightful, as a specter; anything imaginary that causes needless fright; something used to excite needless fear; also something really dangerous, used to frighten children, etc. "Bugaboos to fright ye." Lloyd.
"But, to the world no bugbear is so great As want of figure and a small estate." - Pope.
"The bugaboo of the liberals is the church pray." - S. B. Griffin.
"The great bugaboo of the birds is the owl." - J. Burroughs.
Syn. — Hobgoblin; goblin; specter; ogre; scarecrow.

Bugbear
Bug´bear, n. Same as Bugaboo. — a. Causing needless fright. Locke.

Bugbear
Bug´bear, v. t. To alarm with idle phantoms.

Bugfish
Bug´fish, n. (Zoöl.) The menhaden. [U.S.]

Bugger
Bug´ger, n. [F. bougre, fr. LL. Bulgarus, a Bulgarian, and also a heretic; because the inhabitants of Bulgaria were infected with heresy. Those guilty of the crime of buggery were called heretics, because in the eyes of their adversaries there was nothing more heinous than heresy, and it was therefore thought that the origin of such a vice could only be owing to heretics.]
1. One guilty of buggery or unnatural vice; a sodomite.
2. A wretch; — sometimes used humorously or in playful disparagement. [Low]

Buggery
Bug´ger•y, n. [OF. bougrerie, bogrerie, heresy. See Bugger.] Unnatural sexual intercourse; sodomy.

Bugle
Bu´gle, n. [OE. bugle buffalo, buffalo’s horn, OF. bugle, fr. L. buculus a young bullock, steer, dim. of bos ox. See Cow the animal.] A sort of wild ox; a buffalo. E. Phillips.

Bugle
Bu´gle, n. [See Bugle a wild ox.]
1. A horn used by hunters.
2. (Mus.) A copper instrument of the horn quality of tone, shorter and more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; — called also the Kent bugle.

Bugle
Bu´gle, n. [LL. bugulus a woman’s ornament: cf. G. bügel a bent piece of metal or wood, fr. the same root as G. biegen to bend, E. bow to bend.] An elongated glass bead, of various colors, though commonly black.

Bugle
Bu´gle, a. [From Bugle a bead.] Jet black. "Bugle eyeballs." Shak.

Bugle
Bu´gle, n. [F. bugle; cf. It. bugola, L. bugillo.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Ajuga of the Mint family, a native of the Old World. Yellow bugle, the Ajuga chamaepitys.

Bugle horn
Bu"gle horn .
1. A bugle.
"One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men." - Sir W. Scott.
2. A drinking vessel made of horn. [Obs.]
"And drinketh of his bugle horn the wine." - Chaucer.

Bugled
Bu´gled, a. Ornamented with bugles.

Bugler
Bu´gler, n. One who plays on a bugle.

Bugleweed
Bu´gle•weed, n. (Bot.) A plant of the Mint family and genus Lycopus; esp. L. Virginicus, which has mild narcotic and astringent properties, and is sometimes used as a remedy for hemorrhage.

Bugloss
Bu´gloss, n. ; pl. Buglosses . [F. buglosse, L. buglossa, buglossus, fr. Gr. oxtongue ox + tongue.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Anchusa, and especially the A. officinalis, sometimes called alkanet; oxtongue. Small wild bugloss, the Asperugo procumbens and the Lycopsis arvensis. — Viper’s bugloss, a species of Echium.

Bugwort
Bug´wort, n. (Bot.) Bugbane. { Buhl, Buhl´work }, n. [From A. Ch. Boule, a French carver in wood.] Decorative woodwork in which tortoise shell, yellow metal, white metal, etc., are inlaid, forming scrolls, cartouches, etc. [Written also boule, boulework.]

Buhlbuhl
Buhl´buhl, n. (Zoöl.) See Bulbul.

Build, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Built ; p. pr. & vb. n. Building. The regular imp. & p. p. Builded is antiquated.] [OE. bulden, bilden, AS. byldan to build, fr. bold house; cf. Icel. bol farm, abode, Dan. bol small farm, OSw. bol, böle, house, dwelling, fr. root of Icel. ba to dwell; akin to E. be, bower, boor. rad.97.]
1. To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a regular structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise.
"Nor aught availed him now To have built in heaven high towers." - Milton.
2. To raise or place on a foundation; to form, establish, or produce by using appropriate means.
"Who builds his hopes in air of your good looks." - Shak.
3. To increase and strengthen; to increase the power and stability of; to settle, or establish, and preserve; — frequently with up; as to build up one’s constitution.
"I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up." - Acts xx. 32.
Syn. — To erect; construct; raise; found; frame.

Build, v. i.
1. To exercise the art, or practice the business, of building.
2. To rest or depend, as on a foundation; to ground one’s self or one’s hopes or opinions upon something deemed reliable; to rely; as to build on the opinions or advice of others.

Build, n. Form or mode of construction; general figure; make; as the build of a ship.

Builder
Build´er, n. One who builds; one whose occupation is to build, as a carpenter, a shipwright, or a mason.
"In the practice of civil architecture, the builder comes between the architect who designs the work and the artisans who execute it." - Eng. Cyc.

Building
Build´ing, n.
1. The act of constructing, erecting, or establishing.
"Hence it is that the building of our Sion rises no faster." - Bp. Hall.
2. The art of constructing edifices, or the practice of civil architecture.
"The execution of works of architecture necessarily includes building; but building is frequently employed when the result is not architectural." - Hosking.
3. That which is built; a fabric or edifice constructed, as a house, a church, etc.
"Thy sumptuous buildings and thy wife’s attire Have cost a mass of public treasury." - Shak.

Built, n. Shape; build; form of structure; as the built of a ship. [Obs.] Dryden.

Built, a. Formed; shaped; constructed; made; — often used in composition and preceded by the word denoting the form; as frigate- built, clipper- built, etc.
"Like the generality of Genoese countrywomen, strongly built." - Landor.

Buke muslin
Buke" mus"lin . See Book muslin.

Bulb (bulb), n. [L. bulbus, Gr. bolbo•s: cf. F. bulbe.]
1. (Bot.) A spheroidal body growing from a plant either above or below the ground (usually below), which is strictly a bud, consisting of a cluster of partially developed leaves, and producing, as it grows, a stem above, and roots below, as in the onion, tulip, etc. It differs from a corm in not being solid.
2. (Anat.) A name given to some parts that resemble in shape certain bulbous roots; as the bulb of the aorta. Bulb of the eye, the eyeball. — Bulb of a hair, the "root," or part whence the hair originates. — Bulb of the spinal cord, the medulla oblongata, often called simply bulb. — Bulb of a tooth, the vascular and nervous papilla contained in the cavity of the tooth.
3. An expansion or protuberance on a stem or tube, as the bulb of a thermometer, which may be of any form, as spherical, cylindrical, curved, etc. Tomlinson.

Bulb, v. i. To take the shape of a bulb; to swell.

Bulbaceous
Bul•ba´ceous, a. [L. bulbaceus. See Bulb, n. ] Bulbous. Jonson.

Bulbed, a. Having a bulb; round- headed.

Bulbel
Bulb´el, n. [Dim., fr. bulb, n.] (Bot.) A separable bulb formed on some flowering plants.

Bulbiferous
Bul•bif´er•ous, a. [ Bulb, n. + -ferous: cf. F. bulbifère.] (Bot.) Producing bulbs.

Bulbil
Bulb´il, n. [Dim. fr. bulb.]
1. (Bot.) A small or secondary bulb; hence, now almost exclusively: An aërial bulb or deciduous bud, produced in the leaf axils, as in the tiger lily, or relpacing the flowers, as in some onions, and capable, when separated, of propagating the plant; — called also bulblet and brood bud.
2. (Anat.) A small hollow bulb, such as an enlargement in a small vessel or tube.

Bulblet
Bulb´let, n. [ Bulb, n. + -let.] (Bot.) A small bulb, either produced on a larger bulb, or on some aërial part of a plant, as in the axils of leaves in the tiger lily, or replacing the flowers in some kinds of onion.

Bulbose
Bul•bose´, a. Bulbous.

Bulbo-tuber
Bul´bo-tu•ber, n. [ Bulb, n. + tuber.] (Bot.) A corm.

Bulbous
Bulb´ous, a. [L. bulbosus: cf. F. bulbeux. See Bulb, n. ] Having or containing bulbs, or a bulb; growing from bulbs; bulblike in shape or structure.

Bulbule
Bul´bule, n. [L. bulbulus, dim. of bulbus. See Bulb, n. ] A small bulb; a bulblet.

Bulge, n. [OE. bulge a swelling; cf. AS. belgan to swell, OSw. bulgja, Icel. bolginn swollen, OHG. belgan to swell, G. bulge leathern sack, Skr. bh to be large, strong; the root meaning to swell. Cf. Bilge, Belly, Billow, Bouge, n. ]
1. The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.
2. A swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, esp. when caused by pressure; as a bulge in a wall.
3. (Naut.) The bilge of a vessel. See Bilge, 2. Bulge ways. (Naut.) See Bilge ways.

Bulge, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Bulged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Bulging.]
1. To swell or jut out; to bend outward, as a wall when it yields to pressure; to be protuberant; as the wall bulges.
2. To bilge, as a ship; to founder.
"And scattered navies bulge on distant shores." - Broome.

Bulimus
Bu•li´mus (bu•li"mus), n. [L. bulimus hunger. See Bulimy.] (Zoöl.) A genus of land snails having an elongated spiral shell, often of large size. The species are numerous and abundant in tropical America.

Bulkhead
Bulk´head, n. [See Bulk part of a building.]
1. (Naut.) A partition in a vessel, to separate apartments on the same deck.
2. A structure of wood or stone, to resist the pressure of earth or water; a partition wall or structure, as in a mine; the limiting wall along a water front. Bulked line, a line beyond which a wharf must not project; — usually, the harbor line.

Bulky
Bulk´y, a. Of great bulk or dimensions; of great size; large; thick; massive; as bulky volumes.
"A bulky digest of the revenue laws." - Hawthorne.

Bull, n. [OE. bule, bul, bole; akin to D. bul, G. bulle, Icel. boli, Lith. bullus, Lett. bollis, Russ. vol’; prob. fr. the root of AS. bellan, E. bellow.]
1. (Zoöl.) The male of any species of cattle ( Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also the male of the whale. The wild bull of the Old Testament is thought to be the oryx, a large species of antelope.
2. One who, or that which, resembles a bull in character or action. Ps. xxii. 12.
3. (Astron.) (a) Taurus, the second of the twelve signs of the zodiac. (b) A constellation of the zodiac between Aries and Gemini. It contains the Pleiades.
"At last from Aries rolls the bounteous sun, And the bright Bull receives him." - Thomson.
4. (Stock Exchange) One who operates in expectation of a rise in the price of stocks, or in order to effect such a rise. See 4th Bear, n. , 5. Bull baiting, the practice of baiting bulls, or rendering them furious, as by setting dogs to attack them. — John Bull, a humorous name for the English, collectively; also an Englishman. "Good-looking young John Bull." W. D.Howells. — To take the bull by the horns, to grapple with a difficulty instead of avoiding it.

Bull, a. Of or pertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large; fierce. Bull bat (Zoöl.), the night hawk; — so called from the loud noise it makes while feeding on the wing, in the evening. — Bull calf. (a) A stupid fellow. — Bull mackerel (Zoöl.), the chub mackerel. — Bull pump (Mining), a direct single-acting pumping engine, in which the steam cylinder is placed above the pump. — Bull snake (Zoöl.), the pine snake of the United States. — Bull stag, a castrated bull. See Stag. — Bull wheel, a wheel, or drum, on which a rope is wound for lifting heavy articles, as logs, the tools in well boring, etc.

Bull, v. i. To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do. [Colloq.]

Bull, v. t. (Stock Exchange) To endeavor to raise the market price of; as to bull railroad bonds; to bull stocks; to bull Lake Shore; to endeavor to raise prices in; as to bull the market. See 1st Bull, n. , 4.

Bull, n. [OE. bulle, fr. L. bulla bubble, stud, knob, LL., a seal or stamp: cf. F. bulle. Cf. Bull a writing, Bowl a ball, Boil, v. i.]
1. A seal. See Bulla.
2. A letter, edict, or respect, of the pope, written in Gothic characters on rough parchment, sealed with a bulla, and dated "a die Incarnationis," i. e., "from the day of the Incarnation." See Apostolical brief, under Brief.
"A fresh bull of Leo’s had declared how inflexible the court of Rome was in the point of abuses." - Atterbury.
3. A grotesque blunder in language; an apparent congruity, but real incongruity, of ideas contained in a form of expression; so called, perhaps, from the apparent incongruity between the dictatorial nature of the pope’s bulls and his professions of humility.
"And whereas the papist boasts himself to be a Roman Catholic, it is a mere contradiction, one of the pope’s bulls, as if he should say universal particular; a Catholic schimatic." - Milton.
The Golden Bull, an edict or imperial constitution made by the emperor Charles IV. (1356), containing what became the fundamental law of the German empire; — so called from its golden seal.
Syn. — See Blunder.

Bull Moose. (U. S. Politics) (a) A follower of Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1912; - - a sense said to have originated from a remark made by Roosevelt on a certain occasion that he felt "like a bull moose." [Cant] (b) The figure of a bull moose used as the party symbol of the Progressive party in the presidential campaign of 1912. — Bull Mooser. [Cant]

Bull terrier
Bull" ter"ri•er . (Zoöl.) A breed of dogs obtained by crossing the bulldog and the terrier.

Bull trout
Bull" trout . (Zoöl.) (a) In England, a large salmon trout of several species, as Salmo trutta and S. Cambricus, which ascend rivers; — called also sea trout. (b) Salvelinus malma of California and Oregon; — called also Dolly Varden trout and red- spotted trout. (c) The huso or salmon of the Danube.

Bull’s-eye
Bull’s´-eye, n.
1. (Naut.) A small circular or oval wooden block without sheaves, having a groove around it and a hole through it, used for connecting rigging.
2. A small round cloud, with a ruddy center, supposed by sailors to portend a storm.
3. A small thick disk of glass inserted in a deck, roof, floor, ship’s side, etc., to let in light.
4. A circular or oval opening for air or light.
5. A lantern, with a thick glass lens on one side for concentrating the light on any object; also the lens itself. Dickens.
6. (Astron.) Aldebaran, a bright star in the eye of Taurus or the Bull.
7. (Archery & Gun.) The center of a target.
8. A thick knob or protuberance left on glass by the end of the pipe through which it was blown.
9. A small and thick old-fashioned watch. [Colloq.]

Bull’s-nose
Bull’s´-nose, n. (Arch.) An external angle when obtuse or rounded.

Bulla
Bul´la, n. ; pl. Bullae . [L. bulla bubble. See Bull an edict.]
1. (Med.) A bleb; a vesicle, or an elevation of the cuticle, containing a transparent watery fluid.
2. (Anat.) The ovoid prominence below the opening of the ear in the skulls of many animals; as the tympanic or auditory bulla.
3. A leaden seal for a document; esp. the round leaden seal attached to the papal bulls, which has on one side a representation of St. Peter and St. Paul, and on the other the name of the pope who uses it.
4. (Zoöl.) A genus of marine shells. See Bubble shell.

Bullbeggar
Bull´beg•gar, n. Something used or suggested to produce terror, as in children or persons of weak mind; a bugbear.
"And being an ill-looked fellow, he has a pension from the church wardens for being bullbeggar to all the forward children in the parish. Mountfort (1691)."

Bullcomber
Bull´comb•er, n. (Zoöl.) A scaraboid beetle; esp. the Typhaeus vulgaris of Europe.

Bulldog
Bull´dog, n.
1. (Zoöl.) A variety of dog, of remarkable ferocity, courage, and tenacity of grip; — so named, probably, from being formerly employed in baiting bulls.
2. (Metal.) A refractory material used as a furnace lining, obtained by calcining the cinder or slag from the puddling furnace of a rolling mill.

Bulldog
Bull´dog, a. Characteristic of, or like, a bulldog; stubborn; as bulldog courage; bulldog tenacity. Bulldog bat (Zo’94l.), a bat of the genus Nyctinomus; — so called from the shape of its face.

Bulldoze
Bull´doze, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bulldozed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Bulldozing.] To intimidate; to restrain or coerce by intimidation or violence; — used originally of the intimidation of negro voters, in Louisiana. [Slang, U.S.]

Bulled, a. [Cf. Boln.] Swollen. [Obs.]

Bullen-nail
Bul´len-nail, n. [ Bull large, having a large head + nail.] A nail with a round head and short shank, tinned and lacquered.

Bullet
Bul´let, n. [F. boulet, dim. of boule ball. See Bull an edict, and cf. Boulet.]
1. A small ball.
2. A missile, usually of lead, and round or elongated in form, to be discharged from a rifle, musket, pistol, or other small firearm.
3. A cannon ball. [Obs.]
"A ship before Greenwich … shot off her ordnance, one piece being charged with a bullet of stone." - Stow.
4. The fetlock of a horse. [See Illust. under Horse.]

Bullfeast
Bull´feast, n. See Bullfight. [Obs.] { Bull´fight•, Bull´fight•ing }, n. A barbarous sport, of great antiquity, in which men torment, and fight with, a bull or bulls in an arena, for public amusement, — still popular in Spain. — Bull´fight•er, n.

Bullhead
Bull´head, n.
1. (Zoöl.) (a) A fresh-water fish of many species, of the genus Uranidea, esp. U. gobio of Europe, and U. Richardsoni of the United States; — called also miller’s thumb. (b) In America, several species of Amiurus; — called also catfish, horned pout, and bullpout. (c) A marine fish of the genus Cottus; the sculpin.
2. (Zoöl.) (a) The black-bellied plover ( Squatarola helvetica); — called also beetlehead. (b) The golden plover.
3. A stupid fellow; a lubber. [Colloq.] Jonson.
4. (Zoöl.) A small black water insect. E. Phillips.Bullhead whiting (Zoöl.), the kingfish of Florida ( Menticirrus alburnus).

Bullheaded
Bull´head•ed (bul"hed•ed), a. Having a head like that of a bull. Fig.: Headstrong; obstinate; dogged.

Bullion
Bul´lion (bul"yun), n. [Cf. OE. bullyon a hook used for fastening the dress, a button, stud, an embossed ornament of various kinds, e. g., on the cover of a book, on bridles or poitrels, for purses, for breeches and doublets, LL. bullio the swelling of boiling water, a mass of gold or silver, fr. L. bulla boss, stud, bubble (see Bull an edict), or perh. corrupted fr. F. billon base coin, LL. billio bullion. Cf. Billon, Billet a stick.]
1. Uncoined gold or silver in the mass. Properly, the precious metals are called bullion, when smelted and not perfectly refined, or when refined, but in bars, ingots or in any form uncoined, as in plate. The word is often often used to denote gold and silver, both coined and uncoined, when reckoned by weight and in mass, including especially foreign, or uncurrent, coin.
2. Base or uncurrent coin. [Obs.]
"And those which eld’s strict doom did disallow, And damm for bullion, go for current now." - Sylvester.
3. Showy metallic ornament, as of gold, silver, or copper, on bridles, saddles, etc. [Obs.]
"The clasps and bullions were worth a thousand pound." - Skelton.
4. Heavy twisted fringe, made of fine gold or silver wire and used for epaulets; also any heavy twisted fringe whose cords are prominent.

Bullirag
Bul´li•rag, v. t. [Cf. bully, n. & v., and rag to scold, rail. Cf. Ballarag.] To intimidate by bullying; to rally contemptuously; to badger. [Low]

Bullist
Bull´ist, n. [F. bulliste. See Bull an edict.] A writer or drawer up of papal bulls. [R.] Harmar.

Bullock
Bul´lock, n. [AS. bulluc a young bull. See Bull.]
1. A young bull, or any male of the ox kind.
"Take thy father’s young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old." - Judges vi. 25.
2. An ox, steer, or stag.

Bullock
Bul´lock, v. t. To bully. [Obs.]
"She shan’t think to bullock and domineer over me." - Foote.

Bullock’s-eye
Bul´lock’s-eye, n. See Bull’s- eye, 3.

Bullpout
Bull´pout, n. (Zoöl.) See Bullhead, 1 (b).

Bullwort
Bull´wort, n. (Bot.) See Bishop’s-weed.

Bully tree
Bul"ly tree . (Bot.) The name of several West Indian trees of the order Sapotaceae, as Dipholis nigra and species of Sapota and Mimusops. Most of them yield a substance closely resembling gutta-percha.

Bullyrag
Bul´ly•rag, v. t. Same as Bullirag.

Bulrush
Bul´rush, n. [OE. bulrysche, bolroysche; of uncertain origin, perh. fr. bole stem + rush.] (Bot.) A kind of large rush, growing in wet land or in water. The name bulrush is applied in England especially to the cat-tail ( Typha latifolia and T. angustifolia) and to the lake club-rush ( Scirpus lacustris); in America, to the Juncus effusus, and also to species of Scirpus or club-rush.

Bulse, n. A purse or bag in which to carry or measure diamonds, etc. [India] Macaulay.

Bultel
Bul´tel, n. [LL. bultellus. See Bolt to sift.] A bolter or bolting cloth; also bran. [Obs.]

Bultow
Bul´tow, n. A trawl; a boulter; the mode of fishing with a boulter or spiller.

Bulwark
Bul´wark, n. [Akin to D. bolwerk, G. bollwerk, Sw. bolwerk, Dan. bolvärk, bulvärk, rampart; akin to G. bohle plank, and werk work, defense. See Bole stem, and Work, n. , and cf. Boulevard.]
1. (Fort.) A rampart; a fortification; a bastion or outwork.
2. That which secures against an enemy, or defends from attack; any means of defense or protection.
"The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense, … the floating bulwark of our island." - Blackstone.
3. pl. (Naut.) The sides of a ship above the upper deck.
Syn. — See Rampart.

Bulwark
Bul´wark, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bulwarked ; p. pr. & v. . n. Bulwarking.] To fortify with, or as with, a rampart or wall; to secure by fortification; to protect.
"Of some proud city, bulwarked round and armed With rising towers." - Glover.

Bumbailiff
Bum´bail´iff, n. [A corruption of bound bailiff.] [Low, Eng.] See Bound bailiff, under Bound, a.

Bumble
Bum´ble, n. [See Bump to boom.] (Zoöl.) The bittern. [Local, Eng.]

Bumble
Bum´ble, v. i. To make a hollow or humming noise, like that of a bumblebee; to cry as a bittern.
"As a bittern bumbleth in the mire." - Chaucer.

Bumblebee
Bum´ble•bee, n. [OE. bumblen to make a humming noise (dim. of bum, v. i.) + bee. Cf. Humblebee.] (Zoöl.) A large bee of the genus Bombus, sometimes called humblebee; — so named from its sound. There are many species. All gather honey, and store it in the empty cocoons after the young have come out.

Bumkin
Bum´kin, n. [ Boom a beam + - kin. See Bumpkin.] (Naut.) A projecting beam or boom; as: (a) One projecting from each bow of a vessel, to haul the fore tack to, called a tack bumpkin. (b) One from each quarter, for the main-brace blocks, and called brace bumpkin. (c) A small outrigger over the stern of a boat, to extend the mizzen. [Written also boomkin.]

Bummer
Bum´mer, n. An idle, worthless fellow, who is without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger. [Slang, U.S.]

Bummery
Bum´me•ry, n. See Bottomery. [Obs.]
"There was a scivener of Wapping brought to hearing for relief against a bummery bond." - R. North.

Bumper
Bum´per, n. [A corruption of bumbard, bombard, a large drinking vessel.]
1. A cup or glass filled to the brim, or till the liquor runs over, particularly in drinking a health or toast.
"He frothed his bumpers to the brim." - Tennyson.
2. A covered house at a theater, etc., in honor of some favorite performer. [Cant]

Bumper
Bump´er, n.
1. That which bumps or causes a bump.
2. Anything which resists or deadens a bump or shock; a buffer.

Bumpkin
Bump´kin, n. [The same word as bumkin, which Cotgrave defines thus: "Bumkin, Fr. chicambault, the luffe-block, a long and thick piece of wood, whereunto the fore-sayle and sprit-sayle are fastened, when a ship goes by the winde." Hence, a clumsy man may easily have been compared to such a block of wood; cf. OD. boomken a little tree. See Boom a pole.] An awkward, heavy country fellow; a clown; a country lout. "Bashful country bumpkins." W. Irving.

Bumptiousness
Bump´tious•ness, n. Conceitedness. [Colloq.] { Bun, Bunn }, n. [Scot. bun, bunn, OE. bunne, bonne; fr. Celtic; cf. Ir. bunna, Gael. bonnach, or OF. bugne tumor, Prov. F. bugne a kind of pancake; akin to OHG. bungo bulb, MHG. bunge, Prov. E. bung heap, cluster, bunny a small swelling.] A slightly sweetened raised cake or bisquit with a glazing of sugar and milk on the top crust.

Bunch, n. [Akin to OSw. & Dan. bunke heap, Icel. bunki heap, pile, bunga tumor, protuberance; cf. W. pwng cluster. Cf. Bunk.]
1. A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
"They will carry … their treasures upon the bunches of camels." - Isa. xxx. 6.
2. A collection, cluster, or tuft, properly of things of the same kind, growing or fastened together; as a bunch of grapes; a bunch of keys.
3. (Mining) A small isolated mass of ore, as distinguished from a continuous vein. Page.

Bunch, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Bunched ; p. pr. & vb. n. Bunching.] To swell out into a bunch or protuberance; to be protuberant or round.
"Bunching out into a large round knob at one end." - Woodward.

Bunch, v. t. To form into a bunch or bunches.

Bunch grass
Bunch" grass . (Bot.) A grass growing in bunches and affording pasture. In California, Atropis tenuifolia, Festuca scabrella, and several kinds of Stipa are favorite bunch grasses. In Utah, Eriocoma cuspidata is a good bunch grass.

Bunch-backed
Bunch´-backed, a. Having a bunch on the back; crooked. "Bunch-backed toad." Shak.

Bunchberry
Bunch´ber•ry, n. (Bot.) The dwarf cornel ( Cornus Canadensis), which bears a dense cluster of bright red, edible berries.

Bunchiness
Bunch´i•ness, n. The quality or condition of being bunchy; knobbiness.

Bunchy
Bunch´y, a.
1. Swelling out in bunches.
"An unshapen, bunchy spear, with bark unpiled." - Phaer.
2. Growing in bunches, or resembling a bunch; having tufts; as the bird’s bunchy tail.
3. (Mining) Yielding irregularly; sometimes rich, sometimes poor; as a bunchy mine. Page. { Bun´combe, Bun´kum }, n. [ Buncombe a county of North Carolina.] Speech-making for the gratification of constituents, or to gain public applause; flattering talk for a selfish purpose; anything said for mere show. [Cant or Slang, U.S.]
"All that flourish about right of search was bunkum — all that brag about hanging your Canada sheriff was bunkum … slavery speeches are all bunkum." - Haliburton.
To speak for Buncombe, to speak for mere show, or popularly. "The phrase originated near the close of the debate on the famous •Missouri Question,’ in the 16th Congress. It was then used by Felix Walker — a naïve old mountaineer, who resided at Waynesville, in Haywood, the most western country of North Carolina, near the border of the adjacent county of Buncombe, which formed part of his district. The old man rose to speak, while the house was impatiently calling for the • Question,’ and several members gathered round him, begging him to desist. He preserved, however, for a while, declaring that the people of his district expected it, and that he was bound to •make a speech for Buncombe.’" W. Darlington.

Bund, n. [G.] League; confederacy; esp. the confederation of German states.

Bund, n. [Hindi band.] An embankment against inundation. [India] S. Wells Williams.

Bunder
Bun´der, n. [Pers. bandar a landing place, pier.] A boat or raft used in the East Indies in the landing of passengers and goods.

Bundesrath
Bun´des•rath (boon"des•rät•), n. [G., from bund (akin to E. bond) confederacy + rath council, prob. akin to E. read.] The federal council of the German Empire. In the Bundesrath and the Reichstag are vested the legislative functions. The federal council of Switzerland is also so called. The Bundesrath of the German empire is presided over by a chancellor, and is composed of sixty-two members, who represent the different states of the empire, being appointed for each session by their respective governments.
"By this united congress, the highest tribunal of Switzerland, — the Bundesrath — is chosen, and the head of this is a president. J. P. Peters (Trans. Müller’s Pol. Hist.)."

Bundesrath
Bun´des•rath, n. [G.; bund confederacy + rath council.] Lit., a federal council, esp. of the German Empire. See Legislature.

Bundobust
Bun´do•bust, n. [Hind. & Per. bando-bast tying and binding.] System; discipline. [India]
"He has more bundobust than most men." Kipling.

Bung, n. [Cf. W. bwng orfice, bunghole, Ir. buinne tap, spout, OGael. buine.]
1. The large stopper of the orifice in the bilge of a cask.
2. The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bunghole.
3. A sharper or pickpocket. [Obs. & Low]
"You filthy bung, away." - Shak.

Bung, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bunged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Bunging .] To stop, as the orifice in the bilge of a cask, with a bung; to close; — with up. To bung up, to use up, as by bruising or over exertion; to exhaust or incapacitate for action. [Low]
"He had bunged up his mouth that he should not have spoken these three years. Shelton (Trans. Don Quixote)."

Bungarum
Bun´ga•rum, n. [ Bungar, the native name.] (Zoöl.) A venomous snake of India, of the genus Bungarus, allied to the cobras but without a hood.

Bunghole
Bung´hole, n. See Bung, n. , 2. Shak.

Bungler
Bun´gler, n. A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles.
"If to be a dunce or a bungler in any profession be shameful, how much more ignominious and infamous to a scholar to be such!" - Barrow.

Bungling
Bun´gling, a. Unskillful; awkward; clumsy; as a bungling workman. Swift.
"They make but bungling work." - Dryden.

Bunglingly
Bun´gling•ly, adv. Clumsily; awkwardly.

Bungo
Bun´go, n. (Naut.) A kind of canoe used in Central and South America; also a kind of boat used in the Southern United States. Bartlett.

Bunion
Bun´ion, n. (Med.) Same as Bunyon.

Bunko
Bun´ko, n. [Sf. Sp. banco bank, banca a sort of game at cards. Cf. Bank (in the commercial sense).] A kind of swindling game or scheme, by means of cards or by a sham lottery. [Written also bunco.] Bunko steerer, a person employed as a decoy in bunko. [Slang, U.S.]

Bunko
Bun´ko, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bunkoed p. pr. & vb. n. Bunkoing.] To swindle by a bunko game or scheme; to cheat or victimize in any similar way, as by a confidence game, passing a bad check, etc.

Bunt, n. (Bot.) A fungus ( Ustilago fœtida) which affects the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a fetid dust; — also called pepperbrand.

Bunt, n. [Cf. Sw. bunt bundle, Dan. bundt, G. bund, E. bundle.] (Naut.) The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard. Totten.

Bunt, v. i. (Naut.) To swell out; as the sail bunts.

Bunt, v. t. & i. To strike or push with the horns or head; to butt; as the ram bunted the boy.

Bunt, n. A push or shove; a butt; specif. (Baseball), the act of bunting the ball.

Bunt, v. t. & i. (Baseball) To bat or tap (the ball) slowly within the infield by meeting it with the bat without swinging at it.

Bunter
Bun´ter, n. A woman who picks up rags in the streets; hence, a low, vulgar woman. [Cant]
"Her … daughters, like bunters in stuff gowns." - Goldsmith.

Bunting
Bun´ting, n. [Scot. buntlin, corn-buntlin, OE. bunting, buntyle; of unknown origin.] (Zoöl.) A bird of the genus Emberiza, or of an allied genus, related to the finches and sparrows (family Fringillidae). Among European species are the common or corn bunting ( Emberiza miliaria); the ortolan ( E. hortulana); the cirl ( E. cirlus); and the black-headed ( Granitivora melanocephala). American species are the bay-winged or grass ( Poöcaetes or Poœcetes gramineus); the black- throated ( Spiza Americana); the towhee bunting or chewink ( Pipilo); the snow bunting ( Plectrophanax nivalis); the rice bunting or bobolink, and others. See Ortolan, Chewick, Snow bunting, Lark bunting. { Bun´ting, Bun´tine }, n. [Prov. E. bunting sifting flour, OE. bonten to sift, hence prob. the material used for that purpose.] A thin woolen stuff, used chiefly for flags, colors, and ships’ signals.

Buoyage
Buoy´age, n. Buoys, taken collectively; a series of buoys, as for the guidance of vessels into or out of port; the providing of buoys.

Buoyance
Buoy´ance, n. Buoyancy. [R.]

Buoyancy
Buoy´an•cy, n. ; pl. Buoyancies .
1. The property of floating on the surface of a liquid, or in a fluid, as in the atmosphere; specific lightness, which is inversely as the weight compared with that of an equal volume of water.
2. (Physics) The upward pressure exerted upon a floating body by a fluid, which is equal to the weight of the body; hence, also the weight of a floating body, as measured by the volume of fluid displaced.
"Such are buoyancies or displacements of the different classes of her majesty’s ships." - Eng. Cyc.
3. Cheerfulness; vivacity; liveliness; sprightliness; — the opposite of heaviness; as buoyancy of spirits.

Buoyant
Buoy´ant, a. [From Buoy, v. t. & i.]
1. Having the quality of rising or floating in a fluid; tending to rise or float; as iron is buoyant in mercury. "Buoyant on the flood." Pope.
2. Bearing up, as a fluid; sustaining another body by being specifically heavier.
"The water under me was buoyant." - Dryden.
3. Light-hearted; vivacious; cheerful; as a buoyant disposition; buoyant spirits. — Buoy´ant•ly, adv.

Bur marigold
Bur" mar"i•gold . See Beggar’s ticks.

Burbot
Bur´bot, n. [F. barbote, fr. barbe beard. See 1st Barb.] (Zoöl.) A fresh- water fish of the genus Lota, having on the nose two very small barbels, and a larger one on the chin. [Written also burbolt.] The fish is also called an eelpout or ling, and is allied to the codfish. The Lota vulgaris is a common European species. An American species ( L. maculosa) is found in New England, the Great Lakes, and farther north.

Burdenous
Bur´den•ous, a. Burdensome. [Obs.] "Burdenous taxations." Shak.

Burdensome
Bur´den•some, a. Grievous to be borne; causing uneasiness or fatigue; oppressive.
"The debt immense of endless gratitude So burdensome." - Milton.
Syn. — Heavy; weighty; cumbersome; onerous; grievous; oppressive; troublesome. — Bur´den•some•ly, adv. — Bur´den•some•ness, n.

Burdock
Bur´dock, n. [ Bur + dock the plant.] (Bot.) A genus of coarse biennial herbs ( Lappa), bearing small burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or wool of animals. The common burdock is the Lappa officinalis.

Burdon
Bur´don, n. [See Bourdon.] A pilgrim’s staff. [Written also burden.] Rom. of R.

Bureaucrat
Bu•reau´crat, n. An official of a bureau; esp. an official confirmed in a narrow and arbitrary routine. C. Kingsley. { Bu•reau•crat´ic, Bu•reau•crat´ic•al } a. [Cf. F. bureaucratique.] Of, relating to, or resembling, a bureaucracy.

Bureaucratist
Bu•reau´cra•tist, n. An advocate for, or supporter of, bureaucracy.

Burel
Bur´el, n. & a. Same as Borrel.

Burg, n. [AS. burh, burg, cf. LL. burgus. See 1st Borough.]
1. A fortified town. [Obs.]
2. A borough. [Eng.] See 1st Borough.

Burgamot
Bur´ga•mot, n. See Bergamot.

Burgeois
Bur•geois´ (bûr•jois"), n. (Print.) See 1st Bourgeois.

Burgeois
Bur•geois´ (boor•zhwä"), n. A burgess; a citizen. See 2d Bourgeois. [R.] Addison.

Burggrave
Burg´grave, n. [G. burggraf; burg fortress + graf count: cf. D. burggraaf, F. burgrave. See Margrave.] (Germany) Originally, one appointed to the command of a burg (fortress or castle); but the title afterward became hereditary, with a domain attached.

Burghbote
Burgh´bote, n. [ Burgh + bote.] (Old Law) A contribution toward the building or repairing of castles or walls for the defense of a city or town.

Burghbrech
Burgh´brech, n. [ Burgh + F. brèche, equiv. to E. breach.] (AS. Law) The offense of violating the pledge given by every inhabitant of a tithing to keep the peace; breach of the peace. Burrill.

Burgher
Burgh´er, n. [From burgh; akin to D. burger, G. bürger, Dan. borger, Sw. borgare. See Burgh.]
1. A freeman of a burgh or borough, entitled to enjoy the privileges of the place; any inhabitant of a borough.
2. (Eccl. Hist.) A member of that party, among the Scotch seceders, which asserted the lawfulness of the burgess oath (in which burgesses profess "the true religion professed within the realm"), the opposite party being called antiburghers. These parties arose among the Presbyterians of Scotland, in 1747, and in 1820 reunited under the name of the "United Associate Synod of the Secession Church."

Burghmaster
Burgh´mas•ter, n.
1. A burgomaster.
2. (Mining) An officer who directs and lays out the meres or boundaries for the workmen; — called also bailiff, and barmaster. [Eng.]

Burghmote
Burgh´mote, n. (AS. Law) [ Burgh + mote meeting.] A court or meeting of a burgh or borough; a borough court held three times yearly.

Burglar
Bur´glar, n. [OE. burg town, F. bourg, fr. LL. burgus (of German origin) + OF. lere thief, fr. L. latro. See Borough, and Larceny.] (Law) One guilty of the crime of burglary. Burglar alarm, a device for giving alarm if a door or window is opened from without.

Burglarious
Bur•gla´ri•ous, a. Pertaining to burglary; constituting the crime of burglary.
"To come down a chimney is held a burglarious entry." - Blackstone.

Burglariously
Bur•gla´ri•ous•ly, adv. With an intent to commit burglary; in the manner of a burglar. Blackstone.

Burglary
Bur´gla•ry, n. ; pl. Burglaries . [Fr. Burglar; cf. LL. burglaria.] (Law) Breaking and entering the dwelling house of another, in the nighttime, with intent to commit a felony therein, whether the felonious purpose be accomplished or not. Wharton. Burrill. By statute law in some of the United States, burglary includes the breaking with felonious intent into a house by day as well as by night, and into other buildings than dwelling houses. Various degrees of the crime are established.

Burgoo
Bur´goo, n. [Prov. E. burgood yeast, perh. fr. W. burym yeast + cawl cabbage, gruel.] A kind of oatmeal pudding, or thick gruel, used by seamen. [Written also burgout.]

Burgrass
Bur´grass, n. (Bot.) Grass of the genus Cenchrus, growing in sand, and having burs for fruit.

Burgrave
Bur´grave, n. [F.] See Burggrave.

Burh, n. See Burg. [Obs.] { Bur´hel, Burr´hel }, n. (Zoöl.) The wild Himalayan, or blue, sheep ( Ovis burrhel).

Burier
Bur´i•er, n. One who, or that which, buries.
"Till the buriers have buried it." - Ezek. xxxix. 15.
"And darkness be the burier of the dead." - Shak.

Burin
Bu´rin, n. [F. burin, cf. It. burino, bulino; prob. from OHG. bora borer, boron to bore, G. bohren. See 1st Bore.]
1. The cutting tool of an engraver on metal, used in line engraving. It is made of tempered steel, one end being ground off obliquely so as to produce a sharp point, and the other end inserted in a handle; a graver; also the similarly shaped tool used by workers in marble.
2. The manner or style of execution of an engraver; as a soft burin; a brilliant burin.

Burion
Bu´ri•on, n. (Zoöl.) The red-breasted house sparrow of California ( Carpodacus frontalis); — called also crimson-fronted bullfinch. [Written also burrion.]

Burke, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Burked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Burking.] [From one Burke of Edinburgh, who committed the crime in 1829.]
1. To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection.
2. To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as to burke a parliamentary question.
"The court could not burke an inquiry, supported by such a mass of a affidavits." - C. Reade.

Burl, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Burled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Burling.] [OE. burle stuffing, or a knot in cloth; cf. F. bourlet, bourrelet, OF. bourel, a wreath or a roll of cloth, linen, or leather, stuffed with flocks, etc., dim. of bourre. rad.92. See Bur.] To dress or finish up (cloth); to pick knots, burs, loose threads, etc., from, as in finishing cloth. Burling iron, a peculiar kind of nippers or tweezers used in burling woolen cloth.

Burl, n.
1. A knot or lump in thread or cloth.
2. An overgrown knot, or an excrescence, on a tree; also veneer made from such excrescences.

Burlap
Bur´lap, n. A coarse fabric, made of jute or hemp, used for bagging; also a finer variety of similar material, used for curtains, etc. [Written also burlaps.]

Burler
Burl´er, n. One who burls or dresses cloth.

Burlesque
Bur•lesque´, a. [F. burlesque, fr. It. burlesco, fr. burla jest, mockery, perh. for burrula, dim. of L. burrae trifles. See Bur.] Tending to excite laughter or contempt by extravagant images, or by a contrast between the subject and the manner of treating it, as when a trifling subject is treated with mock gravity; jocular; ironical.
"It is a dispute among the critics, whether burlesque poetry runs best in heroic verse, like that of the Dispensary, or in doggerel, like that of Hudibras." - Addison.

Burlesque
Bur•lesque´, n.
1. Ludicrous representation; exaggerated parody; grotesque satire.
"Burlesque is therefore of two kinds; the first represents mean persons in the accouterments of heroes, the other describes great persons acting and speaking like the basest among the people." - Addison.
2. An ironical or satirical composition intended to excite laughter, or to ridicule anything.
"The dull burlesque appeared with impudence, And pleased by novelty in spite of sense." - Dryden.
3. A ludicrous imitation; a caricature; a travesty; a gross perversion.
"Who is it that admires, and from the heart is attached to, national representative assemblies, but must turn with horror and disgust from such a profane burlesque and abominable perversion of that sacred institute?" - Burke.
Syn. — Mockery; farce; travesty; mimicry.

Burlesque
Bur•lesque´, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Burlesqued ; p. pr. & vb. n. Burlesquing .] To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation in action or in language.
"They burlesqued the prophet Jeremiah’s words, and turned the expression he used into ridicule." - Stillingfleet.

Burlesque
Bur•lesque´, v. i. To employ burlesque.

Burlesquer
Bur•les´quer, n. One who burlesques.

Burletta
Bur•let´ta (bûr•let"ta), n. [It., dim. of burla mockery. See Burlesque, a. ] (Mus.) A comic operetta; a music farce. Byron.

Burly
Bur´ly (bûr"ly), a. [OE. burlich strong, excellent; perh. orig. fit for a lady’s bower, hence handsome, manly, stout. Cf. Bower.]
1. Having a large, strong, or gross body; stout; lusty; — now used chiefly of human beings, but formerly of animals, in the sense of stately or beautiful, and of inanimate things that were huge and bulky. "Burly sacks." Drayton.
"In his latter days, with overliberal diet, [he was] somewhat corpulent and burly." - Sir T. More.
"Burly and big, and studious of his ease." - Cowper.
2. Coarse and rough; boisterous.
"It was the orator’s own burly way of nonsense." - Cowley.

Burmese
Bur•mese´, a. Of or pertaining to Burmah, or its inhabitants. — n. sing. & pl. A native or the natives of Burmah. Also ( sing. ), the language of the Burmans.

Burn, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Burned or Burnt ; p. pr. & vb. n. Burning.] [OE. bernen, brennen, v. t., early confused with beornen, birnen, v. i., AS. baernan, bernan, v. t., birnan, v. i.; akin to OS. brinnan, OFries. barna, berna, OHG. brinnan, brennan, G. brennen, OD. bernen, D. branden, Dan. braende, Sw. bränna, brinna, Icel. brenna, Goth. brinnan, brannjan (in comp.), and possibly to E. fervent.]
1. To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; — frequently intensified by up: as to burn up wood. "We’ll burn his body in the holy place." Shak.
2. To injure by fire or heat; to change destructively some property or properties of, by undue exposure to fire or heat; to scorch; to scald; to blister; to singe; to char; to sear; as to burn steel in forging; to burn one’s face in the sun; the sun burns the grass.
3. To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some property or properties of, by exposure to fire or heat in due degree for obtaining a desired residuum, product, or effect; to bake; as to burn clay in making bricks or pottery; to burn wood so as to produce charcoal; to burn limestone for the lime.
4. To make or produce, as an effect or result, by the application of fire or heat; as to burn a hole; to burn charcoal; to burn letters into a block.
5. To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does; as to burn the mouth with pepper.
"This tyrant fever burns me up." - Shak.
"This dry sorrow burns up all my tears." Dryden.
"When the cold north wind bloweth, … it devoureth the mountains, and burneth the wilderness, and consumeth the grass as fire. Ecclus. xliii. 20, 21."
6. (Surg.) To apply a cautery to; to cauterize.
7. (Chem.) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize; as a man burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration; to burn iron in oxygen. To burn, To burn together, as two surfaces of metal (Engin.), to fuse and unite them by pouring over them a quantity of the same metal in a liquid state. — To burn a bowl (Game of Bowls), to displace it accidentally, the bowl so displaced being said to be burned. — To burn daylight, to light candles before it is dark; to waste time; to perform superfluous actions. Shak. — To burn one’s fingers, to get one’s self into unexpected trouble, as by interfering the concerns of others, speculation, etc. — To burn out, to destroy or obliterate by burning. "Must you with hot irons burn out mine eyes?" Shak. — To be burned out, to suffer loss by fire, as the burning of one’s house, store, or shop, with the contents. — To burn up, To burn down, to burn entirely.

Burn, v. i.
1. To be of fire; to flame. "The mount burned with fire." Deut. ix. 15.
2. To suffer from, or be scorched by, an excess of heat.
"Your meat doth burn, quoth I." - Shak.
3. To have a condition, quality, appearance, sensation, or emotion, as if on fire or excessively heated; to act or rage with destructive violence; to be in a state of lively emotion or strong desire; as the face burns; to burn with fever.
"Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way?" - Luke xxiv. 32.
"The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water." - Shak.
"Burning with high hope." - Byron.
"The groan still deepens, and the combat burns." - Pope.
"The parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire." - Milton.
4. (Chem.) To combine energetically, with evolution of heat; as copper burns in chlorine.
5. In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought. [Colloq.] To burn out, to burn till the fuel is exhausted. — To burn up, To burn down, to be entirely consumed.

Burn, n.
1. A hurt, injury, or effect caused by fire or excessive or intense heat.
2. The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking; as they have a good burn.
3. A disease in vegetables. See Brand, n. , 6.

Burn, n. [See 1st Bourn.] A small stream. [Scot.]

Burned, p. p. & a. See Burnt.

Burned, p. p. Burnished. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Burner
Burn´er, n.
1. One who, or that which, burns or sets fire to anything.
2. The part of a lamp, gas fixture, etc., where the flame is produced. Bunsen’s burner (Chem.), a kind of burner, invented by Professor Bunsen of Heidelberg, consisting of a straight tube, four or five inches in length, having small holes for the entrance of air at the bottom. Illuminating gas being also admitted at the bottom, a mixture of gas and air is formed which burns at the top with a feebly luminous but intensely hot flame. — Argand burner, Rose burner, etc. See under Argand, Rose, etc.

Burning
Burn´ing, a.
1. That burns; being on fire; excessively hot; fiery.
2. Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful; as burning zeal.
"Like a young hound upon a burning scent." - Dryden.
Burning bush (Bot.), an ornamental shrub ( Euonymus atropurpureus), bearing a crimson berry.

Burning
Burn´ing, n. The act of consuming by fire or heat, or of subjecting to the effect of fire or heat; the state of being on fire or excessively heated. Burning fluid, any volatile illuminating oil, as the lighter petroleums (naphtha, benzine), or oil of turpentine (camphine), but esp. a mixture of the latter with alcohol. — Burning glass, a convex lens of considerable size, used for producing an intense heat by converging the sun’s rays to a focus. — Burning house (Metal.), the furnace in which tin ores are calcined, to sublime the sulphur and arsenic from the pyrites. Weale. — Burning mirror, a concave mirror, or a combination of plane mirrors, used for the same purpose as a burning glass.
Syn. — Combustion; fire; conflagration; flame; blaze.

Burnish
Bur´nish, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Burnished ; p. pr. & vb. n. Burnishing.] [OE. burnischen, burnissen, burnen, OF. burnir, brunir, to make brown, polish, F. brunir, fr. F. brun brown, fr. OHG. brn; cf. MHG. briunen to make brown, polish. See Brown, a. ] To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as to burnish brass or paper.
"The frame of burnished steel, that east a glare From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing air." - Dryden.
"Now the village windows blaze, Burnished by the setting sun." - Cunningham.
Burnishing machine, a machine for smoothing and polishing by compression, as in making paper collars.

Burnish
Bur´nish, v. i. To shine forth; to brighten; to become smooth and glossy, as from swelling or filling out; hence, to grow large.
"A slender poet must have time to grow, And spread and burnish as his brothers do." - Dryden.
"My thoughts began to burnish, sprout, and swell." - Herbert.

Burnish
Bur´nish, n. The effect of burnishing; gloss; brightness; luster. Crashaw.

Burnisher
Bur´nish•er, n.
1. One who burnishes.
2. A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses. { Bur´noose, Bur´nous }, n. [Ar. burnus a kind of high-crowned cap: cf. F. bournous, burnous, Sp. al-bornoz, a sort of upper garment, with a hood attached.]
1. A cloaklike garment and hood woven in one piece, worn by Arabs.
2. A combination cloak and hood worn by women. [Variously written bournous, bernouse, bornous, etc.]

Burnstickle
Burn´stic•kle, n. (Zoöl.) A stickleback ( Gasterosteus aculeatus).

Burnt, p. p. & a. Consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried, as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun. Burnt ear, a black, powdery fungus which destroys grain. See Smut. — Burnt offering, something offered and burnt on an altar, as an atonement for sin; a sacrifice. The offerings of the Jews were a clean animal, as an ox, a calf, a goat, or a sheep; or some vegetable substance, as bread, or ears of wheat or barley. Called also burnt sacrifice. [2 Sam. xxiv. 22.]

Burring machine
Burr"ing ma•chine" . A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.

Burro
Bur´ro, n. [Sp., an ass.] (Zoöl.) A donkey. [Southern U.S.]

Burrock
Bur´rock, n. [Perh. from AS. burg, burh, hill + -ock.] A small weir or dam in a river to direct the stream to gaps where fish traps are placed. Knight.

Burrow
Bur´row, n. [See 1st Borough.]
1. An incorporated town. See 1st Borough.
2. A shelter; esp. a hole in the ground made by certain animals, as rabbits, for shelter and habitation.
3. (Mining) A heap or heaps of rubbish or refuse.
4. A mound. See 3d Barrow, and Camp, n. , 5.

Burrow
Bur´row, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Burrowed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Burrowing.]
1. To excavate a hole to lodge in, as in the earth; to lodge in a hole excavated in the earth, as conies or rabbits.
2. To lodge, or take refuge, in any deep or concealed place; to hide.
"Sir, this vermin of court reporters, when they are forced into day upon one point, are sure to burrow in another." - Burke.
Burrowing owl (Zoöl.), a small owl of the western part of North America ( Speotyto cunicularia), which lives in holes, often in company with the prairie dog.

Burrstone
Burr´stone, n. See Buhrstone.

Bursa
Bur´sa, n. ; pl. Bursae . [L. See Burse.] (Anat.) Any sac or saclike cavity; especially, one of the synovial sacs, or small spaces, often lined with synovial membrane, interposed between tendons and bony prominences.

Bursar
Bur´sar, n. [LL. bursarius, fr. bursa purse. See Burse, and cf. Purser.]
1. A treasurer, or cash keeper; a purser; as the bursar of a college, or of a monastery.
2. A student to whom a stipend or bursary is paid for his complete or partial support.

Bursary
Bur´sa•ry, n. ; pl. - ries . [LL. bursaria. See Bursar.]
1. The treasury of a college or monastery.
2. A scholarship or charitable foundation in a university, as in Scotland; a sum given to enable a student to pursue his studies. "No woman of rank or fortune but would have a bursary in her gift." Southey.

Burse, n. [LL. bursa, or F. bourse. See Bourse, and cf. Bursch, Purse.]
1. A purse; also a vesicle; a pod; a hull. [Obs.] Holland.
2. A fund or foundation for the maintenance of needy scholars in their studies; also the sum given to the beneficiaries. [Scot.]
3. (Eccl.) An ornamental case of hold the corporal when not in use. Shipley.
4. An exchange, for merchants and bankers, in the cities of continental Europe. Same as Bourse.
5. A kind of bazaar. [Obs.]
"She says she went to the burse for patterns." - Old Play.

Bursitis
Bur•si´tis, n. [NL., fr. E. bursa + -itis.] (Med.) Inflammation of a bursa.

Burst, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Burst; p. pr. & vb. n. Bursting. The past participle bursten is obsolete.] [OE. bersten, bresten, AS. berstan (pers. sing. berste, imp. sing. baerst, imp. pl. burston, p. p. borsten); akin to D. bersten, G. bersten, OHG. brestan, OS. brestan, Icel. bresta, Sw. brista, Dan. briste. Cf. Brast, Break.]
1. To fly apart or in pieces; of break open; to yield to force or pressure, especially to a sudden and violent exertion of force, or to pressure from within; to explode; as the boiler had burst; the buds will burst in spring.
"From the egg that soon Bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed Their callow young." - Milton.
Often used figuratively, as of the heart, in reference to a surcharge of passion, grief, desire, etc.
"No, no, my heart will burst, an if I speak: And I will speak, that so my heart may burst." - Shak.
2. To exert force or pressure by which something is made suddenly to give way; to break through obstacles or limitations; hence, to appear suddenly and unexpectedly or unaccountably, or to depart in such manner; — usually with some qualifying adverb or preposition, as forth, out, away, into, upon, through, etc.
"Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth." - Milton.
"And now you burst (ah cruel!) from my arms." - Pope.
"A resolved villain Whose bowels suddenly burst out." - Shak.
"We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea." - Coleridge.
"To burst upon him like an earthquake." - Goldsmith.

Burst (bûrst), v. t.
1. To break or rend by violence, as by an overcharge or by strain or pressure, esp. from within; to force open suddenly; as to burst a cannon; to burst a blood vessel; to burst open the doors.
"My breast I’ll burst with straining of my courage." - Shak.
2. To break. [Obs.]
"You will not pay for the glasses you have burst?" - Shak.
"He burst his lance against the sand below. Fairfax (Tasso)."
3. To produce as an effect of bursting; as to burst a hole through the wall. Bursting charge. See under Charge.

Burst, n.
1. A sudden breaking forth; a violent rending; an explosion; as a burst of thunder; a burst of applause; a burst of passion; a burst of inspiration.
"Bursts of fox-hunting melody." - W. Irving.
2. Any brief, violent exertion or effort; a spurt; as a burst of speed.
3. A sudden opening, as of landscape; a stretch; an expanse. [R.] "A fine burst of country." Jane Austen.
4. A rupture or hernia; a breach.

Bursten
Burst´en, p. p. of Burst, v. i. [Obs.]

Burstwort
Burst´wort, n. (Bot.) A plant ( Herniaria glabra) supposed to be valuable for the cure of hernia or rupture.

Burt, n. (Zoöl.) See Birt. [Prov. Eng.]

Bury
Bur´y (ber"ry), n. [See 1st Borough.]
1. A borough; a manor; as the Bury of St. Edmond’s; — used as a termination of names of places; as Canter bury, Shrews bury.
2. A manor house; a castle. [Prov. Eng.]
"To this very day, the chief house of a manor, or the lord’s seat, is called bury, in some parts of England." - Miege.

Bury
Bur´y, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Buried ; p. pr. & vb. n. Burying .] [OE. burien, birien, berien, AS. byrgan; akin to beorgan to protect, OHG. bergan, G. bergen, Icel. bjarga, Sw. berga, Dan. bierge, Goth. baírgan. rad.95. Cf. Burrow.]
1. To cover out of sight, either by heaping something over, or by placing within something, as earth, etc.; to conceal by covering; to hide; as to bury coals in ashes; to bury the face in the hands.
"And all their confidence Under the weight of mountains buried deep." - Milton.
2. Specifically: To cover out of sight, as the body of a deceased person, in a grave, a tomb, or the ocean; to deposit (a corpse) in its resting place, with funeral ceremonies; to inter; to inhume.
"Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father." - Matt. viii. 21.
"I’ll bury thee in a triumphant grave." - Shak.
3. To hide in oblivion; to put away finally; to abandon; as to bury strife.
"Give me a bowl of wine In this I bury all unkindness, Cassius." - Shak.
Burying beetle (Zoöl.), the general name of many species of beetles, of the tribe Necrophaga; the sexton beetle; — so called from their habit of burying small dead animals by digging away the earth beneath them. The larvae feed upon decaying flesh, and are useful scavengers. — To bury the hatchet, to lay aside the instruments of war, and make peace; — a phrase used in allusion to the custom observed by the North American Indians, of burying a tomahawk when they conclude a peace.
Syn. — To intomb; inter; inhume; inurn; hide; cover; conceal; overwhelm; repress. { Bur"y•ing ground•, Bur"y•ing place }. The ground or place for burying the dead; burial place.

Busby
Bus´by (buz"by), n. ; pl. Busbies (biz). (Mil.) A military headdress or cap, used in the British army. It is of fur, with a bag, of the same color as the facings of the regiment, hanging from the top over the right shoulder.

Buscon
Bus´con, n. [Sp., a searcher, fr. buscar to search.] One who searches for ores; a prospector. [U.S.]

Bush, n. [OE. bosch, busch, buysch, bosk, busk; akin to D. bosch, OHG. busc, G. busch, Icel. buskr, buski, Dan. busk, Sw. buske, and also to LL. boscus, buscus, Pr. bosc, It. bosco, Sp. & Pg. bosque, F. bois, OF. bos. Whether the LL. or G. form is the original is uncertain; if the LL., it is perh. from the same source as E. box a case. Cf. Ambush, Boscage, Bouquet, Box a case.]
1. A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest. This was the original sense of the word, as in the Dutch bosch, a wood, and was so used by Chaucer. In this sense it is extensively used in the British colonies, especially at the Cape of Good Hope, and also in Australia and Canada; as to live or settle in the bush.
2. A shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs.
"To bind a bush of thorns among sweet-smelling flowers." - Gascoigne.
3. A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree; as bushes to support pea vines.
4. A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (as sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners’ doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.
"If it be true that good wine needs no bush, ’t is true that a good play needs no epilogue." - Shak.
5. (Hunting) The tail, or brush, of a fox. To beat about the bush, to approach anything in a round-about manner, instead of coming directly to it; — a metaphor taken from hunting. — Bush bean (Bot.), a variety of bean which is low and requires no support ( Phaseolus vulgaris, variety nanus). See Bean, 1. — Bush buck, or Bush goat (Zoöl.), a beautiful South African antelope ( Tragelaphus sylvaticus); — so called because found mainly in wooden localities. The name is also applied to other species. — Bush cat (Zoöl.), the serval. See Serval. — Bush chat (Zoöl.), a bird of the genus Pratincola, of the Thrush family. — Bush dog. (Zoöl.) See Potto. — Bush hammer. See Bushhammer in the Vocabulary. — Bush harrow (Agric.) See under Harrow. — Bush hog (Zoöl.), a South African wild hog ( Potamochœrus Africanus); — called also bush pig, and water hog. — Bush master (Zoöl.), a venomous snake ( Lachesis mutus) of Guinea; — called also surucucu. — Bush pea (Bot.), a variety of pea that needs to be bushed. — Bush shrike (Zoöl.), a bird of the genus Thamnophilus, and allied genera; — called also batarg. Many species inhabit tropical America. — Bush tit (Zoöl.), a small bird of the genus Psaltriparus, allied to the titmouse. P. minimus inhabits California.

Bush, v. i. To branch thickly in the manner of a bush. "The bushing alders." Pope.

Bush, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bushed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Bushing.]
1. To set bushes for; to support with bushes; as to bush peas.
2. To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush; as to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground.

Bush, n. [D. bus a box, akin to E. box; or F. boucher to plug.]
1. (Mech.) A lining for a hole to make it smaller; a thimble or ring of metal or wood inserted in a plate or other part of machinery to receive the wear of a pivot or arbor. Knight. In the larger machines, such a piece is called a box, particularly in the United States.
2. (Gun.) A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored. Farrow.

Bush, v. t. To furnish with a bush, or lining; as to bush a pivot hole.

Bushboy
Bush´boy, n. See Bushman.

Bushelman
Bush´el•man, n. A tailor’s assistant for repairing garments; — called also busheler. [Local, U.S.]

Bushet
Bush´et, n. [See Bosket.] A small bush.

Bushfighting
Bush´fight•ing, n. Fighting in the bush, or from behind bushes, trees, or thickets.

Bushhammer
Bush´ham•mer, n. A hammer with a head formed of a bundle of square bars, with pyramidal points, arranged in rows, or a solid head with a face cut into a number of rows of such points; — used for dressing stone.

Bushhammer
Bush´ham•mer, v. t. To dress with bushhammer; as to bushhammer a block of granite.

Bushido
Bu´shi•do (boo"she•do•), n. [Jap. bu military + shi knight + do way, doctrine, principle.] The unwritten code of moral principles regulating the actions of the Japanese knighthood, or Samurai; the chivalry of Japan.
"Unformulated, Bushido was and still is the animating spirit, the motor force of our country." Inazo Nitobe.

Bushiness
Bush´i•ness, n. The condition or quality of being bushy.

Bushing
Bush´ing, n. [See 4th Bush.]
1. The operation of fitting bushes, or linings, into holes or places where wear is to be received, or friction diminished, as pivot holes, etc.
2. (Mech.) A bush or lining; — sometimes called a thimble. See 4th Bush.

Bushman
Bush´man, n. ; pl. Bushmen . [Cf. D. boschman, boschjesman. See 1st Bush.]
1. A woodsman; a settler in the bush.
2. (Ethnol.) One of a race of South African nomads, living principally in the deserts, and not classified as allied in race or language to any other people.

Bushranger
Bush´ran•ger, n. One who roams, or hides, among the bushes; especially, in Australia, an escaped criminal living in the bush.

Bushwhacker
Bush´whack•er, n.
1. One accustomed to beat about, or travel through, bushes. [U.S.]
"They were gallant bushwhackers, and hunters of raccoons by moonlight." - W. Irving.
2. A guerrilla; a marauding assassin; one who pretends to be a peaceful citizen, but secretly harasses a hostile force or its sympathizers. [U.S.] Farrow.

Bushwhacking
Bush´whack•ing, n.
1. Traveling, or working a way, through bushes; pulling by the bushes, as in hauling a boat along the bushy margin of a stream. [U.S.] T. Flint.
2. The crimes or warfare of bushwhackers. [U.S.]

Bushy
Bush´y, a. [From 1st Bush.]
1. Thick and spreading, like a bush. "Bushy eyebrows." Irving.
2. Full of bushes; overgrowing with shrubs.
"Dingle, or bushy dell, of this wild wood." - Milton.

Business
Busi´ness, n. ; pl. Businesses . [From Busy.]
1. That which busies one, or that which engages the time, attention, or labor of any one, as his principal concern or interest, whether for a longer or shorter time; constant employment; regular occupation; as the business of life; business before pleasure.
"Wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business?" - Luke ii. 49.
2. Any particular occupation or employment engaged in for livelihood or gain, as agriculture, trade, art, or a profession. "The business of instruction." Prescott.
3. Financial dealings; buying and selling; traffic in general; mercantile transactions.
"It seldom happens that men of a studious turn acquire any degree of reputation for their knowledge of business." - Bp. Popteus.
4. That which one has to do or should do; special service, duty, or mission.
"The daughter of the King of France, On serious business, craving quick despatch, Importunes personal conference." - Shak.
"What business has the tortoise among the clouds? L’Estrange."
5. Affair; concern; matter; — used in an indefinite sense, and modified by the connected words.
"It was a gentle business, and becoming The action of good women." - Shak.
"Bestow Your needful counsel to our business." - Shak.
6. (Drama) The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal.
7. Care; anxiety; diligence. [Obs.] Chaucer. To do one’s business, to ruin one. [Colloq.] Wycherley. — To make (a thing) one’s business, to occupy one’s self with a thing as a special charge or duty. [Colloq.] — To mean business, to be earnest. [Colloq.]
Syn. — Affairs; concern; transaction; matter; engagement; employment; calling; occupation; trade; profession; vocation; office; duty.

Busk (busk), n. [F. busc, perh. fr. the hypothetical older form of E. bois wood, because the first busks were made of wood. See Bush, and cf. OF. busche, F. bûche, a piece or log of wood, fr. the same root.] A thin, elastic strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset.
"Her long slit sleeves, stiff busk, puff verdingall, Is all that makes her thus angelical." - Marston.

Busk, v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Busked (buskt).] [OE. busken, fr. Icel. buask to make one’s self ready, rexlexive of bua to prepare, dwell. Cf. 8th Bound.]
1. To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress. [Scot. & Old Eng.]
"Busk you, busk you, my bonny, bonny bride." - Hamilton.
2. To go; to direct one’s course. [Obs.]
"Ye might have busked you to Huntly banks." - Skelton.

Busk (busk), n. Among the Creek Indians, a feast of first fruits celebrated when the corn is ripe enough to be eaten. The feast usually continues four days. On the first day the new fire is lighted, by friction of wood, and distributed to the various households, an offering of green corn, including an ear brought from each of the four quarters or directions, is consumed, and medicine is brewed from snakeroot. On the second and third days the men physic with the medicine, the women bathe, the two sexes are taboo to one another, and all fast. On the fourth day there are feasting, dancing, and games.

Busked, a. Wearing a busk. Pollok.

Busket
Bus´ket, n. [See Bosket, Bouquet.]
1. A small bush; also a sprig or bouquet. [Obs.] Spenser.
2. A part of a garden devoted to shrubs. [R.]

Busky
Bus´ky, a. See Bosky, and 1st Bush, n. Shak.

Bust (bust), n. [F. buste, fr. It. busto; cf. LL. busta, bustula, box, of the same origin as E. box a case; cf., for the change of meaning, E. chest. See Bushel.]
1. A piece of sculpture representing the upper part of the human figure, including the head, shoulders, and breast.
"Ambition sighed: she found it vain to trust The faithless column, and the crumbling bust." - Pope.
2. The portion of the human figure included between the head and waist, whether in statuary or in the person; the chest or thorax; the upper part of the trunk of the body.

Buster
Bus´ter (bus"ter), n. Something huge; a roistering blade; also a spree. [Slang, U.S.] Bartlett.

Bustle
Bus´tle (bus"s’l), v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Bustled (-s’ld); p. pr. & v. . n. Bustling (-sling).] [Cf. OE. buskle, perh. fr. AS. bysig busy, bysg-ian to busy + the verbal termination -le; or Icel. bustla to splash, bustle.] To move noisily; to be rudely active; to move in a way to cause agitation or disturbance; as to bustle through a crowd.
"And leave the world for me to bustle in." - Shak.

Bustle
Bus´tle, n. Great stir; agitation; tumult from stirring or excitement.
"A strange bustle and disturbance in the world." - South.

Bustle
Bus´tle, n. A kind of pad or cushion worn on the back below the waist, by women, to give fullness to the skirts; — called also bishop, and tournure.

Bustler
Bus´tler (bus"sler), n. An active, stirring person.

Bustling
Bus´tling (bus"sling), a. Agitated; noisy; tumultuous; characterized by confused activity; as a bustling crowd. "A bustling wharf." Hawthorne.

Busto
Bus´to, n. ; pl. Bustoes . [It.] A bust; a statue.
"With some antick bustoes in the niches." - Ashmole.

Busy
Bus´y (biz"zy), a. [OE. busi, bisi, AS. bysig; akin to D. bezig, LG. besig; cf. Skr. bhush to be active, busy.]
1. Engaged in some business; hard at work (either habitually or only for the time being); occupied with serious affairs; not idle nor at leisure; as a busy merchant.
"Sir, my mistress sends you word That she is busy, and she can not come." - Shak.
2. Constantly at work; diligent; active.
"Busy hammers closing rivets up." - Shak.
"Religious motives … are so busy in the heart." - Addison.
3. Crowded with business or activities; — said of places and times; as a busy street.
"To-morrow is a busy day." - Shak.
4. Officious; meddling; foolish active.
"On meddling monkey, or on busy ape." - Shak.
5. Careful; anxious. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Syn. — Diligent; industrious; assiduous; active; occupied; engaged.

Busy
Bus´y (biz"zy), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Busied (biz"zid); p. pr. & vb. n. Busying.] [AS. bysgian.] To make or keep busy; to employ; to engage or keep engaged; to occupy; as to busy one’s self with books.
"Be it thy course to busy giddy minds With foreign quarrels." - Shak.

But (but), prep. , adv. & conj. [OE. bute, buten, AS. butan, without, on the outside, except, besides; pref. be- + utan outward, without, fr. ut out. Primarily, butan, as well as ut, is an adverb. rad.198. See By, Out; cf. About.]
1. Except with; unless with; without. [Obs.]
"So insolent that he could not go but either spurning equals or trampling on his inferiors." - Fuller.
"Touch not the cat but a glove." - Motto of the Mackintoshes.
2. Except; besides; save.
"Who can it be, ye gods! but perjured Lycon?" - E. Smith.
In this sense, but is often used with other particles; as but for, without, had it not been for. "Uncreated but for love divine." Young.
3. Excepting or excluding the fact that; save that; were it not that; unless; — elliptical, for but that.
"And but my noble Moor is true of mind … it were enough to put him to ill thinking." - Shak.
4. Otherwise than that; that not; — commonly, after a negative, with that.
"It cannot be but nature hath some director, of infinite power, to guide her in all her ways." - Hooker.
"There is no question but the king of Spain will reform most of the abuses." - Addison.
5. Only; solely; merely.
"Observe but how their own principles combat one another." - Milton.
"If they kill us, we shall but die." - 2 Kings vii. 4.
"A formidable man but to his friends." - Dryden.
6. On the contrary; on the other hand; only; yet; still; however; nevertheless; more; further; — as connective of sentences or clauses of a sentence, in a sense more or less exceptive or adversative; as the House of Representatives passed the bill, but the Senate dissented; our wants are many, but quite of another kind.
"Now abideth faith hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity." - 1 Cor. xiii. 13.
"When pride cometh, then cometh shame; but with the lowly is wisdom." - Prov. xi. 2.
All but. See under All. — But and if, but if; an attempt on the part of King James’s translators of the Bible to express the conjunctive and adversative force of the Greek .
"But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; … the lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him. Luke xii. 45, 46." But if, unless. [Obs.] Chaucer.
"But this I read, that but if remedy Thou her afford, full shortly I her dead shall see." - Spenser.
Syn. — But, However, Still. These conjunctions mark opposition in passing from one thought or topic to another. But marks the opposition with a medium degree of strength; as this is not winter, but it is almost as cold; he requested my assistance, but I shall not aid him at present. However is weaker, and throws the opposition (as it were) into the background; as this is not winter; it is, however, almost as cold; he required my assistance; at present, however, I shall not afford him aid. The plan, however, is still under consideration, and may yet be adopted. Still is stronger than but, and marks the opposition more emphatically; as your arguments are weighty; still they do not convince me. See Except, However. "The chief error with but is to use it where and is enough; an error springing from the tendency to use strong words without sufficient occasion." Bain.

But, n. [Cf. But, prep., adv. & conj.] The outer apartment or kitchen of a two-roomed house; — opposed to ben, the inner room. [Scot.]

But, n. [See 1st But.]
1. A limit; a boundary.
2. The end; esp. the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in distinction from the sharp, end. See 1st Butt. But end, the larger or thicker end; as the but end of a log; the but end of a musket. See Butt, n.

But, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Butted; p. pr. & vb. n. Butting.] See Butt, v. , and Abut, v.