English English Dictionary

English English Dictionary

The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg

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Bugbane (n.)

A perennial white-flowered herb of the order Ranunculaceae and genus Cimiciguga; bugwort. There are several species.

Bugbear (n.)

Same as Bugaboo.

Bugbear (n.)

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.

Bugbear (a.)

Causing needless fright.

Bugbear (v. t.)

To alarm with idle phantoms.

Bugfish (n.)

The menhaden.

Bugger (n.)

A wretch; -- sometimes used humorously or in playful disparagement.

Bugger (n.)

One guilty of buggery or unnatural vice; a sodomite.

Buggery (n.)

Unnatural sexual intercourse; sodomy.

Buggies (pl. )

of Buggy

Bugginess (a.)

The state of being infested with bugs.

Buggy (n.)

A light one horse two-wheeled vehicle.

Buggy (a.)

Infested or abounding with bugs.

Buggy (n.)

A light, four-wheeled vehicle, usually with one seat, and with or without a calash top.

Bugle (n.)

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more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle.

Bugle (n.)

An elongated glass bead, of various colors, though commonly black.

Bugle (a.)

Jet black.

Bugle (n.)

A plant of the genus Ajuga of the Mint family, a native of the Old World.

Bugle (n.)

A horn used by hunters.

Bugle (n.)

A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.