Balbucinate :: Balbucinate (v. i.) To stammer.

Buccal :: Buccal (a.) Of or pertaining to the mouth or cheeks.

Buccaneer :: Buccaneer (n.) A robber upon the sea; a pirate; -- a term applied especially to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on the Spaniards in America in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Buccaneer :: Buccaneer (v. i.) To act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical adventurer or sea robber.

Buccaneerish :: Buccaneerish (a.) Like a buccaneer; piratical.

Buccinal :: Buccinal (a.) Shaped or sounding like a trumpet; trumpetlike.

Buccinator :: Buccinator (n.) A muscle of the cheek; -- so called from its use in blowing wind instruments.

Buccinoid :: Buccinoid (a.) Resembling the genus Buccinum, or pertaining to the Buccinidae, a family of marine univalve shells. See Whelk, and Prosobranchiata..

Buccinum :: Buccinum (n.) A genus of large univalve mollusks abundant in the arctic seas. It includes the common whelk (B. undatum).

Bucentaur :: Bucentaur (n.) A fabulous monster, half ox, half man..

Bucentaur :: Bucentaur (n.) The state barge of Venice, used by the doge in the ceremony of espousing the Adriatic..

Buceros :: Buceros (n.) A genus of large perching birds; the hornbills.

Bucholzite :: Bucholzite (n.) Same as Fibrolite.

Buchu :: Buchu (n.) 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..

Buck :: Buck (n.) Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed..

Buck :: Buck (n.) The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.

Buck :: Buck (v. t.) To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching..

Buck :: Buck (v. t.) To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water..

Buck :: Buck (v. t.) To break up or pulverize, as ores..

Buck :: Buck (n.) The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits..

Buck :: Buck (n.) A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy..

Buck :: Buck (n.) A male Indian or negro.

Buck :: Buck (v. i.) To copulate, as bucks and does..

Buck :: Buck (v. i.) 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 :: Buck (v. t.) 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..

Buck :: Buck (v. t.) To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2..

Buck :: Buck (n.) A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.

Buck :: Buck (n.) The beech tree.

Buck Bean :: Buck bean () A plant (Menyanthes trifoliata) which grows in moist and boggy places, having racemes of white or reddish flowers and intensely bitter leaves, sometimes used in medicine; marsh trefoil; -- called also bog bean..

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

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