Webster's practical dictionaryA practical dictionary of the English language, giving the correct spelling, pronunciation and definitions of words based on the Unabridged dictionary of Noah Webster .. . n. Lye for soaking cloth, in bleaching;also liquor in which clothes are washed: cloth orclothes washed, —r. t. To steep in lye; to wash inlye or suds. (Mining.) To break up or pulverize, asores. — Buck-basket, -bas^ket, n. A basket for ear-rving clothes to the wash. Buck, buk, 11. The male of the fallow deer, goat,sheep, rabbit, and hare,— also applied to maleIndians and negroes ; agay, dashing,
Webster's practical dictionaryA practical dictionary of the English language, giving the correct spelling, pronunciation and definitions of words based on the Unabridged dictionary of Noah Webster .. . n. Lye for soaking cloth, in bleaching;also liquor in which clothes are washed: cloth orclothes washed, —r. t. To steep in lye; to wash inlye or suds. (Mining.) To break up or pulverize, asores. — Buck-basket, -bas^ket, n. A basket for ear-rving clothes to the wash. Buck, buk, 11. The male of the fallow deer, goat,sheep, rabbit, and hare,— also applied to maleIndians and negroes ; agay, dashing, young fel-low. — V. I. To ]umpviciouslj-, with the headdown, as if butting, —said of mules, etc. — v. confine, by passing astick under the bentknees, and over thewrists, the hands beingtied together before theshins. — Buckshot, n. Coarse shot used for largegame. skin, n. Leather of deer, goats, etc. Buckboard, bukbord, -wagon, n. A rude vehicle,having a board resting on two axletrees. Bucket, buk^et, ??. A vessel to hold liquids, etc.(Mack.) One of the cavities on the rim of a water-wheel ; the float of a paddle-wheel. See Water-wheel. — Buck^etfnl, ?«. Contents of, Buck. Sm, fame, far, pass or opera, fSre ; 6nd, 5ve, term ; In, ice ; 8dd, tone, 6r: BUCKEYE 47 BUMPER Backeye, bukI, n. A tree indigenous in the WesternStates; a nickname for a resident of Ohio. Buckle, biik^l, n. A frame with tongue or catch tofasten things togetlier; a curl, or state of being curledor crisped, as hair.— r. t. [bickled (bukld), blck-LIXG.] To fasten with a buckle ; to prepare for ac-tion ; set stoutly at work. — v. i. To bend, bow ; tostruggle, contend. — Buck^er, n. A kind of shield.(3a«<.) A cover fitted to the hawse-holes, to excludewater. Buckram, bukram, /}. A coarse linen cloth, stiffenedwith irlue. — a. Alade of buckram ; stiff, precise. Buckthorn, bukthfirn, n. {Bot.) A genus of plants. Buckwheat, bukhwet, ti. A plant, whose seed isused as grain. Bu
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