Bucker (n.) A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore.
Bucker (n.) A horse or mule that bucks.
Bucket (n.) A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids.
Bucket (n.) A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc.
Bucket (n.) 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.
Bucket (n.) The valved piston of a lifting pump.
Bucket shop () An office or a place where facilities are given for betting small sums on current prices of stocks, petroleum, etc.
Buckety (n.) Paste used by weavers to dress their webs.
Buckeye (n.) A name given to several American trees and shrubs of the same genus (Aesculus) as the horse chestnut.
Buckeye (n.) A cant name for a native in Ohio.
Buck-eyed (a.) Having bad or speckled eyes.
Buckhound (n.) A hound for hunting deer.
Buckie (n.) A large spiral marine shell, esp. the common whelk. See Buccinum.
Bucking (n.) The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching; also, the liquid used.
Bucking (n.) A washing.
Bucking (n.) The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores.
Buckish (a.) Dandified; foppish.
Buckle (n.) 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.
Buckle (n.) A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal.
Buckle (n.) A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.
Buckle (n.) A contorted expression, as of the face.
Buckled (imp. & p. p.) of Buckle
Buckling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Buckle
Buckle (n.) To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles; as, to buckle a harness.
Buckle (n.) To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted.
Buckle (n.) To prepare for action; to apply with vigor and earnestness; -- generally used reflexively.
Buckle (n.) To join in marriage.
Buckle (v. i.) To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink.
Buckle (v. i.) To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall.
Buckle (v. i.) To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.
Buckle (v. i.) To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close fight; to struggle; to contend.
Buckler (n.) 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.
Buckler (n.) One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.
Buckler (n.) The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites.
Buckler (n.) 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.
Buckler (v. t.) To shield; to defend.
Buckler-headed (a.) Having a head like a buckler.
Buckling (a.) Wavy; curling, as hair.
Buckra (n.) A white man; -- a term used by negroes of the African coast, West Indies, etc.
Buckra (a.) White; white man's; strong; good; as, buckra yam, a white yam.
Buckram (n.) 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 (n.) A plant. See Ramson.
Buckram (a.) Made of buckram; as, a buckram suit.
Buckram (a.) Stiff; precise.
Buckram (v. t.) To strengthen with buckram; to make stiff.
Buck's-horn (n.) A plant with leaves branched somewhat like a buck's horn (Plantago Coronopus); also, Lobelia coronopifolia.
Buckshot (n.) A coarse leaden shot, larger than swan shot, used in hunting deer and large game.
Buckskin (n.) The skin of a buck.
Buckskin (n.) A soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin.
Buckskin (n.) A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war.
Buckskin (n.) Breeches made of buckskin.
Buckstall (n.) A toil or net to take deer.
Buckthorn (n.) A genus (Rhamnus) of shrubs or trees. The shorter branches of some species terminate in long spines or thorns. See Rhamnus.
Bucktooth (n.) Any tooth that juts out.
Buckwheat (n.) A plant (Fagopyrum esculentum) of the Polygonum family, the seed of which is used for food.
Buckwheat (n.) The triangular seed used, when ground, for griddle cakes, etc.
Bucolic (a.) Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.
Bucolic (n.) A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil.
Bucolical (a.) Bucolic.
Bucrania (pl. ) of Bucranium
Bucranium (n.) A sculptured ornament, representing an ox skull adorned with wreaths, etc.
Bud (n.) 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.
Bud (n.) A small protuberance on certain low forms of animals and vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or attached. See Hydra.
Budded (imp. & p. p.) of Bud
Budding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bud
Bud (v. i.) To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot.
Bud (v. i.) To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
Bud (v. i.) To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin.
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.
Buddha (n.) 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 (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, Nirvana) 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.
Buddhist (n.) One who accepts the teachings of Buddhism.
Buddhist (a.) Of or pertaining to Buddha, Buddhism, or the Buddhists.
Buddhistic (a.) Same as Buddhist, a.
Budding (n.) The act or process of producing buds.
Budding (n.) A process of asexual reproduction, in which a new organism or cell is formed by a protrusion of a portion of the animal or vegetable organism, the bud thus formed sometimes remaining attached to the parent stalk or cell, at other times becoming free; gemmation. See Hydroidea.
Budding (n.) The act or process of ingrafting one kind of plant upon another stock by inserting a bud under the bark.
Buddle (n.) An apparatus, especially an inclined trough or vat, in which stamped ore is concentrated by subjecting it to the action of running water so as to wash out the lighter and less valuable portions.
Buddle (v. i.) To wash ore in a buddle.
Bude burner () 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.
Bude light () A light in which high illuminating power is obtained by introducing a jet of oxygen gas or of common air into the center of a flame fed with coal gas or with oil.
Budged (imp. & p. p.) of Budge
Budging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Budge
Budge (v. i.) To move off; to stir; to walk away.
Budge (v.) Brisk; stirring; jocund.
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.) Lined with budge; hence, scholastic.
Budge (a.) Austere or stiff, like scholastics.
Budgeness (n.) Sternness; severity.
Budger (n.) One who budges.
budgerow (n.) A large and commodious, but generally cumbrous and sluggish boat, used for journeys on the Ganges.
Budget (n.) A bag or sack with its contents; hence, a stock or store; an accumulation; as, a budget of inventions.
Budget (n.) 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.
Budgy (n.) Consisting of fur.
Budlet (n.) A little bud springing from a parent bud.
Buff (n.) 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.
Buff (n.) The color of buff; a light yellow, shading toward pink, gray, or brown.
Buff (n.) A military coat, made of buff leather.
Buff (n.) The grayish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat. See Buffy coat, under Buffy, a.
Buff (a.) A wheel covered with buff leather, and used in polishing cutlery, spoons, etc.