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A perennial white-flowered herb of the order Ranunculaceae and genus Cimiciguga; bugwort. There are several species.
Same as Bugaboo.
Something frightful, as a specter; anything imaginary that causes needless fright; something used to excite needless fear; also, something really dangerous, used to frighten children, etc.
Causing needless fright.
To alarm with idle phantoms.
The menhaden.
A wretch; -- sometimes used humorously or in playful disparagement.
One guilty of buggery or unnatural vice; a sodomite.
Unnatural sexual intercourse; sodomy.
of Buggy
The state of being infested with bugs.
A light one horse two-wheeled vehicle.
Infested or abounding with bugs.
A light, four-wheeled vehicle, usually with one seat, and with or without a calash top.
A copper instrument of the horn quality of tone, shorter and more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle.
An elongated glass bead, of various colors, though commonly black.
Jet black.
A plant of the genus Ajuga of the Mint family, a native of the Old World.
A horn used by hunters.
A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.