To act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical adventurer or sea robber.
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Like a buccaneer; piratical.
Shaped or sounding like a trumpet; trumpetlike.
A muscle of the cheek; -- so called from its use in blowing wind instruments.
Resembling the genus Buccinum, or pertaining to the Buccinid/, a family of marine univalve shells. See Whelk, and Prosobranchiata.
A genus of large univalve mollusks abundant in the arctic seas. It includes the common whelk (Buccinum undatum).
A fabulous monster, half ox, half man.
The celebrated war horse of Alexander the Great.
A genus of large perching birds; the hornbills.
The capital city of Romania. Population (2000) = 2,351,000.
a genus of grasses comprising buffalo grass.
Same as Fibrolite.
A South African shrub (Barosma) with small leaves that are dotted with oil glands; also, the leaves themselves, which are used in medicine for diseases of the urinary organs, etc. Several species furnish the leaves.
The beech tree.
A basket in which clothes are carried to the wash.
Having bad or speckled eyes.
A plant with leaves branched somewhat like a buck's horn (Plantago Coronopus); also, Lobelia coronopifolia.
a cowboy, especially used of one who breaks broncos; -- used especially in California.
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.
A horse or mule that bucks.
To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets; as, to bucket water.
Paste used by weavers to dress their webs.
A name given to several American trees and shrubs of the same genus (/sculus) as the horse chestnut.
A hound for hunting deer.
A large spiral marine shell, esp. the common whelk. See Buccinum.
The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching; also, the liquid used.
Dandified; foppish.
To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink.
To shield; to defend.
Having a head like a buckler.
Wavy; curling, as hair.
White; white man's; strong; good; as, buckra yam, a white yam.
To strengthen with buckram; to make stiff.
A coarse leaden shot, larger than swan shot, used in hunting deer and large game.
The skin of a buck.
A toil or net to take deer.
A genus (Rhamnus) of shrubs or trees. The shorter branches of some species terminate in long spines or thorns. See Rhamnus.
Any tooth that juts out.
A plant (Fagopyrum esculentum) of the Polygonum family, the seed of which is used for food.
A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil.
Bucolic.
A sculptured ornament, representing an ox skull adorned with wreaths, etc.
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 capital city of Hungary. Population (2000) = 2,008,546.
The title of an incarnation of self-abnegation, virtue, and wisdom.
The religion based upon the doctrine originally taught by the Hindu 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, Nirv/na) 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.
Of or pertaining to Buddha, Buddhism, or the Buddhists.
Same as Buddhist, a.
The act or process of producing buds.
To wash ore in a buddle.
Lined with budge; hence, scholastic.
Sternness; severity.
One who budges.
A large and commodious, but generally cumbrous and sluggish boat, used for journeys on the Ganges.
small Australian parakeet (Melopsittacus undulatus) usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors.
A bag or sack with its contents; hence, a stock or store; an accumulation; as, a budget of inventions.
of or pertaining to a budget; as, budgetary considerations.
small Australian parakeet (Melopsittacus undulatus) usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors.
Consisting of fur.
A little bud springing from a parent bud.
a genus of mammals comprising the gnu goats.
The capital city of Argentina. Population (2000) = 3,000,000.
Firm; sturdy.
The comic actress in an opera. Comic, farcical.
A species of the genus Bos or Bubalus (Bubalus bubalus), originally from India, but now found in most of the warmer countries of the eastern continent. It is larger and less docile than the common ox, and is fond of marshy places and rivers.
any of several large carplike North American fish.
An elastic apparatus or fender, for deadening the jar caused by the collision of bodies; as, a buffer at the end of a railroad car. A pad or cushion forming the end of a fender, which receives the blow; -- sometimes called buffing apparatus.
to add a buffer{5} to (a solution), so as to reduce unwanted fluctuation of acidity.
containing a buffer{5}; -- of solutions, usually aqueous solutions.
The head of a buffer, which recieves the concussion, in railroad carriages.
a brand of aspirin tablets coated with a substance capable of neutralizing acid (a /buffer/); -- sometimes applied generically to any buffered aspirin preparation.
To exercise or play at boxing; to strike; to smite; to strive; to contend.
struck repeatedly; -- used especially of impact from winds, and sometimes metaphorically; as, buffeted by criticism.
One who buffets; a boxer.
A striking with the hand.
A sort of coarse stuff; as, buffin gowns.
To puzzle; to be at a loss.
Having a large head, like a buffalo; dull; stupid; blundering.
One who has a large head; a heavy, stupid fellow.
The comic actor in an opera.
To act the part of a buffoon.
To treat with buffoonery.
The arts and practices of a buffoon, as low jests, ridiculous pranks, vulgar tricks and postures.
Like a buffoon; consisting in low jests or gestures.
The practices of a buffoon; buffoonery.
Low; vulgar.
Resembling, or characterized by, buff.
A genus of Amphibia including various species of toads.
a natural family comprising the true toads.
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 o/lite and chalk formations; toadstone; -- so named from a notion that it was originally formed in the head of a toad.
to annoy; to bother or pester.
A perennial white-flowered herb of the order Ranunculace/ and genus Cimiciguga; bugwort. There are several species.
To alarm with idle phantoms.
Something frightful, as a specter; anything imaginary that causes needless fright; something used to excite needless fear; also, something really dangerous, or an imaginary monster, used to frighten children, etc.
The menhaden.
One guilty of buggery or unnatural vice; a sodomite.
Unnatural sexual intercourse; sodomy.
The state of being infested with bugs.
A light one horse two-wheeled vehicle.
A plant of the genus Ajuga of the Mint family, a native of the Old World.
Ornamented with bugles.
One who plays on a bugle.
A plant of the Mint family and genus Lycopus; esp. Lycopus Virginicus, which has mild narcotic and astringent properties, and is sometimes used as a remedy for hemorrhage.
A plant of the genus Anchusa, and especially the Anchusa officinalis, sometimes called alkanet; oxtongue.
Bugbane.
See Bulbul.
Decorative woodwork in which tortoise shell, yellow metal, white metal, etc., are inlaid, forming scrolls, cartouches, etc.
A cellular, flinty rock, used for mill stones.
Form or mode of construction; general figure; make; as, the build of a ship; a great build on a man.
the act of building up an accumulation.
One who builds; one whose occupation is to build, as a carpenter, a shipwright, or a mason.
The act of constructing, erecting, or establishing.
Formed; shaped; constructed; made; -- often used in composition and preceded by the word denoting the form; as, frigate-built, clipper-built, etc.
strong and heavily built; -- of people.
The capital city of Burundi. Population (2000) = 300,000.
See Backsheesh.
An East Indian insectivorous mammal (Gymnura Rafflesii), somewhat like a rat in appearance, but allied to the hedgehog.
To take the shape of a bulb; to swell.
Bulbous.
Of or pertaining to bulb; especially, in medicine, pertaining to the bulb of the spinal cord, or medulla oblongata; as, bulbar paralysis.
Having a bulb; round-headed.
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