English English Dictionary

To break up or pulverize, as ores.

The beech tree.

A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.

To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2.

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.

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.

A male Indian or negro.

A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.

The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.

To copulate, as bucks and does.

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.

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

A basket in which clothes are carried to the wash.

Having bad or speckled eyes.

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.

of Buck

A horse or mule that bucks.

A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore.

One who bucks ore.

The valved piston of a lifting pump.