English English Dictionary

A plant. See Ramson.

A coarse cloth of linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise.

A coarse leaden shot, larger than swan shot, used in hunting deer and large game.

Breeches made of buckskin.

A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war.

A soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin.

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.

The triangular seed used, when ground, for griddle cakes, etc.

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.

Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.

Bucolic.

of Bucranium

A sculptured ornament, representing an ox skull adorned with wreaths, etc.

To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot.

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.

A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an undeveloped branch or flower.