n. [ Akin to LG. büke, Dan. byg, Sw. byk, G. bauche: cf. It. bucato, Prov. Sp. bugada, F. buée. ] 1. Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The cloth or clothes soaked or washed. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bucked 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mining) To break up or pulverize, as ores. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 būza, Skr. bukka. √256. Cf. Butcher, n. ] 1. The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy. [ 1913 Webster ]

The leading bucks of the day. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A male Indian or negro. [ Colloq. U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The word buck is much used in composition for the names of antelopes; as, bush buck, spring buck. [ 1913 Webster ]

Blue buck. See under Blue. --
Water buck, a South African variety of antelope (Kobus ellipsiprymnus). See Illust. of Antelope. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To copulate, as bucks and does. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

The brute that he was riding had nearly bucked him out of the saddle. W. E. Norris. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck. [ 1913 Webster ]

Buck saw, a saw set in a frame and used for sawing wood on a sawhorse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Beech, n. ] The beech tree. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Buck mast, the mast or fruit of the beech tree. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. [ fr. Sp. vaquero. ]a cowboy, especially used of one who breaks broncos; -- used especially in California.
Syn. -- vaquero. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a fellow; a guy. [ slang ] [ PJC ]

n. [ See 1st Buck. ] A basket in which clothes are carried to the wash. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) A perennial plant (Menyanthes trifoliata) of Europe and America which grows in moist and boggy places, having racemes of white, reddish, or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves, sometimes used in medicine; marsh trefoil; -- called also bog bean. It often roots at the water margin and spreads across the surface.
Syn. -- water shamrock, bogbean, bog myrtle, marsh trefoil, Menyanthes trifoliata. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A four-wheeled vehicle, having a long elastic board or frame resting on the bolsters or axletrees, and a seat or seats placed transversely upon it; -- called also buck wagon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A horse or mule that bucks. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mining) 1. One who bucks ore. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket,
The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The valved piston of a lifting pump. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Mach.) one of vanes on the rotor of a turbine. [ PJC ]

6. (Mach.) a bucketfull. [ PJC ]

Fire bucket, a bucket for carrying water to put out fires. --
To kick the bucket, to die. [ Low ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. To pour over from a bucket; to drench. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

4. (Rowing) To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body. [ Eng. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a bucket filled with a substance, or the quantity which would fill a bucket.
Syn. -- bucket. [ PJC ]

An office or a place where facilities are given for betting small sums on current prices of stocks, petroleum, etc. [ Slang, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ A corruption of buckwheat. ] Paste used by weavers to dress their webs. Buchanan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Bot.) A name given to several American trees and shrubs of the same genus (Æsculus) as the horse chestnut. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Ohio buckeye, or
Fetid buckeye, is Aesculus glabra. --
Red buckeye is Aesculus Pavia. --
Small buckeye is Aesculus paviflora. --
Sweet buckeye, or
Yellow buckeye, is Aesculus flava. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A cant name for a native or resident of Ohio. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Buckeye State, Ohio; -- so called because buckeye trees abound there. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having bad or speckled eyes. “A buck-eyed horse.” James White. [ 1913 Webster ]

. Intense excitement at the sight of deer or other game, such as often unnerves a novice in hunting. [ Colloq. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A hound for hunting deer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Master of the buckhounds, an officer in the royal household. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A large spiral marine shell, esp. the common whelk. See Buccinum. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Deil's buckie, a perverse, refractory youngster. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching; also, the liquid used. Tomlinson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A washing. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bucking iron (Mining), a broad-faced hammer, used in bucking or breaking up ores. --
Bucking kier (Manuf.), a large circular boiler, or kier, used in bleaching. --
Bucking stool, a washing block. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Dandified; foppish. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled. [ 1913 Webster ]

Earlocks in tight buckles on each side of a lantern face. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lets his wig lie in buckle for a whole half year. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A contorted expression, as of the face. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

'Gainst nature armed by gravity,
His features too in buckle see. Churchill. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To prepare for action; to apply with vigor and earnestness; -- formerly, generally used reflexively, but by mid 20th century, usually used with down; -- as, the programmers buckled down and worked late hours to finish the project in time for the promised delivery date. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

Cartwright buckled himself to the employment. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To join in marriage. [ Scot. ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink. [ 1913 Webster ]

Buckled with the heat of the fire like parchment. Pepys. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To yield; to give way; to cease opposing. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The Dutch, as high as they seem, do begin to buckle. Pepys. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close fight; to struggle; to contend. [ 1913 Webster ]

The bishop was as able and ready to buckle with the Lord Protector as he was with him. Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

In single combat thou shalt buckle with me. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

To buckle to, to bend to; to engage with zeal. [ 1913 Webster ]

To make our sturdy humor buckle thereto. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Before buckling to my winter's work. J. D. Forbes. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) (a) One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes. (b) The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To shield; to defend. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Can Oxford, that did ever fence the right,
Now buckler falsehood with a pedigree? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a head like a buckler. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Wavy; curling, as hair. Latham. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. White; white man's; strong; good; as, buckra yam, a white yam. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ 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. ). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) A plant. See Ramson. Dr. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Made of buckram; as, a buckram suit. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Stiff; precise. “Buckram dames.” Brooke. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To strengthen with buckram; to make stiff. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A plant with leaves branched somewhat like a buck's horn (Plantago Coronopus); also, Lobelia coronopifolia. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A coarse leaden shot, larger than swan shot, used in hunting deer and large game. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The skin of a buck. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cornwallis fought as lang's he dought,
An' did the buckskins claw, man. Burns. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. pl. Breeches made of buckskin. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have alluded to his buckskin. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A toil or net to take deer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A genus (Rhamnus) of shrubs or trees. The shorter branches of some species terminate in long spines or thorns. See Rhamnus. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sea buckthorn, a plant of the genus Hippophaë. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Any tooth that juts out. [ 1913 Webster ]

When he laughed, two white buckteeth protruded. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The triangular seed used, when ground, for griddle cakes, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. antelope with white harnesslike markings and twisted horns.
Syn. -- guib, Tragelaphus scriptus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

(Bot.) The buckthorn (Rhamnus Purshiana) of the Pacific coast of the United States, which yields cascara sagrada. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. An eelpot or eel basket. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (a) A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out. (b) A double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a cask, gun, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Parbuckled p. pr. & vb. n. Parbuckling ] To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) (a) The springbuck. (b) The pronghorn. [ 1913 Webster ]