English English Dictionary

Of or pertaining to a bubo or buboes; characterized by buboes.

An inguinal hernia; esp. that incomplete variety in which the hernial pouch descends only as far as the groin, forming a swelling there like a bubo.

A red pimple.

Of or pertaining to the mouth or cheeks.

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.

To act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical adventurer or sea robber.

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 Buccinidae, 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 (B. undatum).

A fabulous monster, half ox, half man.

The state barge of Venice, used by the doge in the ceremony of espousing the Adriatic.

A genus of large perching birds; the hornbills.

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.

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

To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching.

The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.

Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.