BUB'BLE, noun

1. A small bladder or vesicle of water or other fluid inflated with air.

2. Any thing that wants firmness or solidity; a vain project; that which is more specious than real. Hence, a false show; a cheat or fraud.

3. A delusive scheme of speculation; an empty project to raise money or imaginary grounds; as the South Sea bubble

4. A person deceived by an empty project.

BUB'BLE, verb intransitive To rise in bubbles, as liquors when boiling or agitated.

1. To run with a gurgling noise; as a bubbling stream.

BUB'BLE, verb transitive To cheat; to deceive or impose on.

BUB'BLER, noun One who cheats.

BUB'BY, noun [from the same root as bubble and bubo.] A woman's breast.

BU'BO, noun [Latin bubo a swelling.] A tumor or abscess with inflammation, which rises in certain glandular parts of the body, as in the groin, or armpit.

BU'BONOCELE, noun [Gr.the groin, and a tumor.] Hernia inguinalis, or inguinal rupture; a tumor in the groin, formed by a prolapsus of the intestines or omentum or both, through the processes of the peritoneum and rings of the abdominal muscles.

BU'BUKLE, noun A red pimple. [Not used.]

BUBUL'CA, noun A flat fresh-water fish, of a circular form and a silvery color.

BUCANEE'R,

BUCANIE'R, noun Primarily, a buccaneer is said to one who dries and smokes flesh or fish after the manner of the Indians. The name was first given to the French settlers in Haiti or Hispaniola, whose business was to hunt wild cattle and swine. It was afterwards applied to the piratical adventurers, English and French, who combined to make depredations on the Spaniards in America.

BUCANIE'R, n. Primarily, a buccaneer is said to one who dries and smokes flesh or fish after the manner of the Indians. The name was first given to the French settlers in Haiti or Hispaniola, whose business was to hunt wild cattle and swine. It was afterwards applied to the piratical adventurers, English and French, who combined to make depredations on the Spaniards in America.

BUCA'O, noun A species of owl, in the Philippine isles, of a beautiful plumage, and size of a peacock, but remarkable for a hideous nocturnal scream.

BUC'CAL, adjective [Latin bucca, the cheek.] Pertaining to the cheek. The buccal glands are the small glands of the mouth, under the cheek, which secrete saliva.

BUCCELLA'TION, noun [Latin buccella, buccea, a mouthful.]

The act of breaking into large pieces.

BUC'CINITE, noun Fossil remains or petrifactions of the shells called buccinum.

BUCENT'AUR, noun The state barge of Venice.

BUCEPH'ALUS, noun An animal of the gazelle tribe, of the size of a hind.

BU'CEROS, noun The hornbill or Indian raven; a genus of birds, common in the East Indies.

BUCH'OLZITE, noun A newly discovered mineral, whose colors are white and black, appearing in spots.

BUCK, noun Lye in which clothes are soaked in the operation of bleaching; the liquor in which clothes are washed.

1. The cloth or clothes soaked or washed in lye.

BUCK, verb transitive [Latin imbuo, for imbuco or imbugo, to steep, tinge, imbue.] To soak or steep in lye, a process in bleaching; to wash or steep in lye or suds.

BUCK, noun The male of the fallow deer, of the goat, the sheep, the rabbit and hare. It is applied only to the smaller quadrupeds.

BUCK, verb intransitive To copulate as bucks and does.

BUCK'-BASKET, noun [buck and basket.] A basket in which clothes are carried to the wash.

BUCK'BEAN, noun This is properly bogbean, which see.

BUCK'ED, participle passive Soaked in lye.

BUCK'ET, noun

1. The vessel in which water is drawn out of a well; it is nearly in the form of a pail.

2. A vessel or pail used at sea to draw water up at the side of a ship, for washing the decks, etc.

3. A vessel made of leather, nearly in the form of a pail, but narrower and deeper, used to convey water by hand for extinguishing fires.

BUCK'ING, participle present tense Soaking in lye, in the process of bleaching; washing.

BUCK'ING, noun The act or process of soaking cloth in lye for bleaching; also, the lye or liquor; a washing.

BUCK'LE, noun

1. An instrument made of some kind of metal, for fastening together certain parts of dress, as the straps and bands, as in a harness. The forms are various, but it consists of a ring or rim with a chape and tongue.

2. A curl, or a state of being curled or crisped, as hair.

3. In coats of arms, a token of the surety, faith and service of the bearer.

BUCK'LE, verb transitive To fasten with a buckle or buckles.

1. To prepare for action; a metaphor, taken from buckling on armor.

2. To join in battle.

3. To confine or limit

A span buckles in his sum of age.

BUCKLE, verb intransitive To bend; to bow; as, to buckle under life.

To buckle to, to bend to; to apply with vigor; to engage with zeal.

To buckle in, to close in; to embrace or seize the body, as in a scuffle; a popular use in America.

To buckle with, to encounter with embrace; to join in close combat.

BUCK'LER, noun A kind of shield, or piece of defensive armor, anciently used in war. It was composed of wood, or wickers woven together, covered with skin or leather, fortified with plates of brass or other metal, and worn on the left arm. On the middle was an umbo, boss or prominence, very useful in causing stones and darts to glance off. The buckler often was four feet long, and covered the whole body.

BUCK'LER, verb transitive To support; to defend. [Not used.]

BUCK'MAST, noun [buck, that is, beach, and mast.] The mast or fruit of the beach tree.

BUCK'RAM, noun A coarse linen cloth, stiffened with glue, used in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover cloths, and other merchandize.

BUCK'RAM, adjective Stiff; precise.

BUCK'RAMS, noun The same as wild garlic.

BUCKS'HORN, noun [buck and horn.] A plant, a species of Plantago, or plantain, called coronopus.

The warted buckshorn is a species of Cochlearia, or scurvy grass.

BUCK'SKIN, noun The skin of a buck. As an adjective, made of leather prepared from the skin of a buck.

BUCK'STALL, noun [buck and stall.] A toil or net to take deer.

BUCK'THORN, noun [buck and thorn.] A genus of plants, called Rhamnus, of many species. The common purging buck-thorn grows to the height of 12 or 14 feet, and bears a black berry, which, when green, is used to dye yellow, and when ripe, green. The bark also dyes yellow. The sea buck-thorn is a genus of plants, called Hippophae.

BUCK'WHEAT, noun A plant and a species of grain; called also brank. It belongs to the genus polygonum, or knot-grass. It is cultivated as food for beasts, and the flour is much used in America for breakfast cakes.

BUCOL'IC, adjective [Gr. a herdsman; pastoral; Latin buculus, an ox; bucolicus, pertaining to cattle, pastoral.]

Pastoral; relating to country affairs and to a shepherd's life and occupation.

BUCOL'IC, noun A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners and occupation of shepherds; as the bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil.

1. A writer of pastorals.

BUD, noun [Gr. to plant or beget.] A gem; the shoot of a plant; a small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves or a flower. It is called by botanists the hybernacle, the winter lodge or receptacle of the leaves or flowers of plants, and is an epitome of a flower, or of a shoot, which is to be unfolded the succeeding summer. It is covered with scales, which are intended to defend the inclosed rudiments from cold and other external injuries.are of three kinds; that containing the flower; that containing the leaves; and that containing both flower and leaves.

BUD, verb intransitive To put forth or produce buds or gems. Job 19:9.

1. To put forth shoots; to grow as a bud into a flower or shoot.

2. To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud as a horn.

3. To be in bloom, or growing like a young plant.

BUD, verb transitive To inoculate a plant; to insert the bud of a plant under the bark of another tree, for the purpose of raising, upon any stock, a species of fruit different from that of the stock.

BUD'DED, participle passive Put forth in buds; inoculated.

BUD'DHISM, noun The doctrines of the Buddhists in Asia.

BUD'DING, participle present tense Putting forth buds; inoculating.

BUD'DLE, noun In mining, a large square frame of board, used in washing tin ore.

BUD'DLE, verb intransitive Among miners, to wash ore.

BUDGE, verb transitive To move off; to stir; to wag. In America, wag is much used as equivalent to budge; but the use of both words is vulgar.

BUDGE, noun The dressed skin or fur of lambs.

BUDGE, adjective Brisk; jocund.

1. Surly; stiff; formal.

BUDGENESS, noun Sternness; severity. [Not used.]

BUDG'ER, noun One who moves or stirs from his place.

BUDG'ET, noun

1. A bag; a little sack, with its contents. Hence, a stock or store; as a budget of inventions.

2. The papers respecting the finances of the British nation.

To open the budget to lay before a legislative body the papers of the Executive Government.

BUDG'Y, adjective Consisting of fur. [Not used.]

BUD'LET, noun [from bud.] A little bud springing from a parent bud.

We have a criterion to distinguish one bud from another, or the parent bud from the numerous budlets which are its offspring.

BUFF, noun [contracted from buffalo, or buffskin.]

1. Buffskin; a sort of leather, prepared from the skin of the buffalo, dressed with oil, like shammy. It is used for making bandoliers, belts, pouches, gloves and other articles. The skins of oxen, elks and other animals, dressed in like manner, are also called buffs.

2. A military coat made of buff-skin or similar leather.

3. The color of buff; a light yellow.

4. A yellow viscid substance formed on the surface of blood drawn in inflammatory diseases.

BUFF, verb transitive To strike. [See Buffet.]

BUFF'ALO, noun [Latin bubalus.] The Bubalus, a species of the bovine genus, originally from India, but now found in most of the warmer countries of the Eastern Continent. It is larger and less docile than the common ox, and is fond of marshy places and rivers. The name is also applied to wild oxen in general, and particularly to the Bison of North America. [See Bison.]

BUFF'EL, noun Buffel's head duck, anas bucephala, a bird with a short blue bill, and a head whose apparent size is greatly increased by the fullness of its feathers, found in winter in the rivers of Carolina.

BUFF'ET, noun A cupboard, or set of shelves, for plates, glass, china and other like furniture. It was formerly and is still in some parts of the country, an apartment erected on one side of a room; but in more fashionable houses, it has been laid aside, and a side board substituted, which is now considered as the buffet But as far as my knowledge extends, the name has become, in a great measure, obsolete, except among the common people, by whom it is pronounced bofat.

BUFF'ET, noun A blow with the fist; a box on the ear or face; a slap.

BUFF'ET, verb transitive To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat.

They spit in his face and buffetted him. Math.26.

1. To beat in contention; to contend against; as, to buffet the billows.

BUFF'ET, verb intransitive To exercise or play at boxing.

BUFF'ETED, participle passive Struck; beaten. l Cor.4.11. l Pet.2.20.

BUFF'ETER, noun One who buffets; a boxer.

BUFF'ETING, participle present tense Striking with the hand; boxing; contending against.

BUFF'ETING, noun A striking with the hand.

1. Contention; attack; opposition.

He seems to have been a plant of slow growth, but formed for duration, and fitted to endure the buffetings of the rudest storm.

BUFF'IN, noun A sort of coarse stuff; as, buffin gowns.

BUFF'LE, noun The buffalo.

BUFF'LE, verb intransitive To puzzle; to be at a loss.

This is probably the same word as baffle.

BUFF'ON, noun The Numidian crane, an African fowl.

BUFFOON', noun

1. A man who makes a practice of amusing others by low tricks, antic gestures and posture, jokes and other vulgar pleasantries. A droll; a mimic.

2. He that uses indecent raillery.

BUFFOON', noun verb transitive To make ridiculous.

BUFFOON'ERY, noun The arts and practices of a buffoon; low jests; ridiculous pranks; vulgar tricks and postures.

Dryden has placed the accent improperly on the first syllable.

BUFFOON'ING, noun Buffoonery.

BUFFOON'ISH, adjective Like a buffoon; consisting in low jests or gesture.

BUFFOON'ISM, noun The practices of a buffoon.

BUFFOON'-LIKE, adjective Resembling a buffoon.

BUFFOON'LY, adjective Consisting of low vulgar tricks. [Little used.]

BU'FONITE, noun [Latin bufo, a toad.] Toadstone, or fossil-teeth of the anarrhicas or sea-wolf, formerly much esteemed for its imaginary virtues and worn in rings. It was named from an opinion that it was found in the head of a toad.

BUG, noun In common language, the name of a vast multitude of insects, which infest houses and plants. In zoology, this word is applied to the insects arranged under the genus Cimex, of which several hundred species are described. Bugs belong to the order of hemipters. They are furnished with a rostrum or beak, with antennae longer than the thorax, and the winds are folded together crosswise. The back is flat, the throat margined, and the feet are formed for running. Some species have no wings. The house-bug, or bed-bug, is a troublesome and disgusting insect.

BUG, or BUG'BEAR, noun A frightful object; a walking specter; any thing imaginary that is considered as frightful.

BUG'BEAR, verb transitive To alarm or frighten with idle phantoms.

BUGEE', noun A species of monkey found in India, of a beaver color.

BU'GELUGEY, noun A large species of lizard, four feet long.

BUG'GER, noun One guilty of the crime against nature. A vile wretch; a term of reproach.

BUG'GERY, noun The unnatural and detestable crime of carnal intercourse of man or woman with a beast; or of human beings unnaturally with each other.

BUG'GINESS, noun [from buggy.] The state of being infected with bugs.

BUG'GY, adjective [from bug.] Abounding with bugs.

BU'GLE,

BU'GLE-HORN, noun A hunting horn.

1. A military instrument of music.

BU'GLE, noun A shining bead of black glass.

BU'GLE, noun [Latin bugula, or bugillo.] A genus of plants, Ajuga, of several species.

BU'GLE, noun [Latin buculus, an ox.] A sort of wild ox.

BU'GLOSS, noun [Latin buglossus; Gr. an ox, and tongue.]

A genus of plants, called alkanet; in botany, anchusa.

The small wild bugloss is the Asperugo.

The viper's bugloss is the Echium.

BUG'WORT, noun A plant, the Cimicifuga.

BUHR'STONE, noun A subspecies of silex or quartz, occurring in amorphous masses, partly compact, but containing many irregular cavities. It is used for mill-stones.

This word is often written burr-stone.

BUILD,

BILD, verb transitive bild; preterit tense built; participle passive built, pronounced bilt. The regular preterit tense and participle passive builded, is sometimes used.

1. To frame, construct, and raise, as an edifice or fabric of almost any kind, as a house, barn, shop, ship or vessel, a wall, or other structure of art; to unite materials into a regular structure for use or convenience.

2. To raise by art; to frame or shape into a particular form; as, to build up a head dress in a cone.

3. To raise any thing on a support or foundation; as, to build our hopes on air.

4. In scripture, to increase and strengthen; to cement and knit together; to settle or establish and preserve. Acts 20:32. Ephesians 2:22. i Sam. 2.35.

BUILD, verb intransitive bild. To exercise the art, or practice the business of building.

To build to plant, whatever you intend.

1. To construct, rest or depend on as a foundation; as, to build on the opinions of others.

BUILD'ER, noun bild'er. One who builds; one whose occupation is to build; an architect, a ship-wright, a mason, etc.

1. A creator.

Whose builder and maker is God. Hebrews 11:10.

BUILD'ING, participle present tense bild'ing. Framing and erecting; resting on.

BUILD'ING, noun bild'ing. A fabric or edifice constructed for use or convenience, as a house, a church, a shop, etc.

BUILT, participle passive bilt. Framed and raised; constructed.

BUILT, noun bilt. Form; shape; general figure of a structure; as the built of a ship.

1. Species of building.

BUL, noun The common flounder.

BULB, noun [Latin bulbus, a bulb or round root.] A round body, applied to many objects. But in botany, it is appropriately a bud formed under ground, upon or near the roots of certain herbaceous plants, which are hence called bulbous plants, as the tulip, onion and lily. The bulb under ground is what the bud is upon the stem or branches, a hybernacle or winter receptacle of a future plant, containing the plant in embryo, covered with a bark or rind, generally consisting of scales placed over each other, to defend the tender rudiments of the plant from cold and other external injuries. A bulb is scaly in the lily, solid in the tulip, coated in the onion, and jointed in the tuberous moschatel.

BULB, verb intransitive To bulb out is to project or be protuberant. [Little used.]

BULBA'CEOUS, adjective Bulbous. [I believe, not used.]

BULB'ED, adjective Round headed.

BULBIF'EROUS, adjective Producing bulbs; as bulbiferous stems.

BULB'OUS, adjective Containing bulbs or a bulb; growing from bulbs; round or roundish.

1. Containing a knob, or protuberant part; swelling out; presenting rounded elevations.

BULCHIN, noun A young male calf.

BULGE, noun A different orthography of bilge. The bilge or protuberant part of a cask; protuberance.

BULGE, verb intransitive To swell out; to be protuberant.

1. To bilge as a ship. [See Bilge.]

BULG'ING, participle present tense or adjective Swelling out; bilging. As an adjective, protuberant.

BU'LIMY, noun [Gr. great, and hunger.] A voracious appetite; a disease in which the patient has a perpetual and insatiable appetite for food, and often faints, if not indulged. It is attended with various symptoms; sometimes with heartburn; sometimes with vomiting or convulsion.

BULK, noun

1. Magnitude of material substance; whole dimensions; size of a thing; as an ox or a ship of great bulk

2. The gross; the majority; the main mass or body; as the bulk of a debt; the bulk of a nation.

3. Main fabric.

4. The whole content of a ship's hood for the stowage of goods.

5. A part of a building jutting out.

To break bulk in seamen's language, is to begin to unload.

Laden in bulk having the cargo loose in the hold, or not inclosed in boxes, bales or casks.

BULK'INESS, noun Greatness in bulk, size or stature.

BULK'Y, adjective Large; of great dimensions; of great size.

BULL, noun

1. The male of the Bos, or bovine genus of quadrupeds, of which cow is the female.

2. In a scriptural sense, an enemy, powerful, fierce and violent.

Many bulls have compassed me. Psalms.

3. Taurus, one of the twelve signs of the zodiac.

BULL, noun [Latin bulla, a boss, and an ornament worn on a child's neck. This name was given to the seal which was appended to the edicts and briefs of the Pope, and in process of time, applied to the edict itself.]

1. A letter, edict or rescript of the Pope, published or transmitted to the churches over which he is head, containing some decree, order or decision. It is used chiefly in matters of justice or of grace. If the former, the lead or seal is hung by a hempen cord; if the latter, by a silken thread. The lead or bull is impressed on one side with the heads of St. Peter and St. Paul; on the other with the name of the Pope and the year of his pontificate. The writing is in the old, round Gothic letter; and the instrument has about it a cross with some text of scripture, or religious motto.

The Golden bull so called from its golden seal, is an edict or imperial constitution, made by the Emperor Charles V., containing the fundamental law of the German Empire.

Leaden Bulls were sent by the Emperors of Constantinople to patriarchs and princes; and by the grandees of the Empire of France, Sicily, etc., and by patriarchs and bishops.

Waxen bulls were in frequent use with the Greek Emperors, who thus sealed letters to their relations.

1. A blunder or contradiction.

BULL, a prefix, signifies a bull or large, or having a large head.

BULL'-BAITING, noun [bull and bait.] The practice of baiting or exciting bulls with dogs.

BULL'-BEEF, noun [bull and beef.] The flesh of a bull; coarse beef.

BULL'-BEGGAR, noun [bull and beggar.] Something terrible, or frightful.

BULL'-CALF, noun [bull and calf.] A male calf; a stupid fellow.

BULL'-DOG, noun [bull and dog.] A species of dog of a particular form and of remarkable courage; so named probably from being employed in baiting bulls, or from the size of the head.

BULL'ACE, noun The bully-tree, or Chrysophyllum, a plant of two species, natives of the West Indies.

1. The wild plum, a species of Prunus.

BULLAN'TIC, adjective [from bull.] Designating certain ornamental capital letters, used in Apostolic bulls. It is used also as a noun.

BULL'ARY, noun A collection of Papistical bulls.

BUL'LATE, adjective [Latin bullatus.] Having elevations, like blisters; as a bullate leaf.

BULL'ET, noun A ball of iron or lead, called also shot, used to load guns for killing man or beast. Balls for cannon are made of iron; musket-balls are made of lead.

BULL'ETIN, noun A French word denoting

1. An official report from an officer to his commander or superior.

2. An official report of a physician respecting the king's health.

3. A little note given by a banking company.

4. It is sometimes used for a notice, or public announcement; as a bibliographical bulletin

BULL'ION, noun Uncoined gold or silver in the mass. The precious metals are called bullion when smelted and not perfectly refined, or when refined, but in bars, ingots, or in any form uncoined, as in plate.

BULL'ISH, adjective Partaking of the nature of a bull or blunder.

BULL'IST, noun A writer of papal bulls.

BUL'LITE, noun A petrified shell, or the fossil remains of shells, of the genus Bulla.

BULLI'TION, noun [Latin bullio, to boil. See Boil.] The act or state of boiling. Superseded by ebullition.

BULL'OCK, noun An ox, or castrated bull. In America, it is applied to a full grown ox.

BULL'Y, noun A noisy, blustering overbearing fellow, more distinguished for insolence and empty menaces, than for courage, and disposed to provoke quarrels.

BULL'Y, verb transitive To insult and overbear with noise and blustering menaces.

BULL'Y, , verb intransitive To be noisy and quarrelsome.

BUL'RUSH, noun [bole, or boll, and rush.] A large kind of rush, growing in wet land or water, and without knots, says Johnson, but Dryden calls it, the knotty bulrush It is not a technical word.

BUL'TEL, noun [See Bolt.] A bolter or bolting cloth; also, bran. [Not used.]

BUL'WARK, noun

1. In fortification, a bastion, or a rampart; a mound of earth round a place, capable of resisting cannon shot, and formed with bastions, curtains, etc.

2. A fortification; also, any means of defense; as, a navy is the bulwark of a nation.

3. That which secures against an enemy or external annoyance; a screen or shelter; means of protection and safety.

Salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. Isaiah 26:1.

BUL'WARK, verb transitive To fortify with a rampart; to secure by a fortification; to protect.

BUM, noun The buttocks; the part on which we sit.

BUM, verb intransitive To make a noise.

BUMBA'ILIFF, noun [A corruption of bound bailiff.] In England, an under-bailiff; a subordinate civil officer, appointed to serve writs, and to make arrests and executions, and bound with sureties for a faithful discharge of his trust. [A vulgar word.]

BUM'BARD, noun [See Bombard.]

BUM'BOAT, noun A small boat, for carrying provisions to a ship at a distance from shore.

BUM'KIN, noun [See Bumpkin.] A short boom projecting from each bow of a ship, to extend the clue of the foresail to windward.

1. A small out-rigger over the stern of a boat, to extend the mizen.

BUMP, noun [Latin bombus, and Eng. pomp., from swelling, thrusting out.]

1. A swelling or protuberance.

2. A thump; a heavy blow.

BUMP, verb intransitive To make a loud, heavy or hollow noise, as the bittern. It is also written boom.

BUMP, verb transitive To strike as with or against any thing large or solid, as to bump the head against a wall; to thump.

BUMP'ER, noun A cup or glass filled to the brim, or till the liquor runs over.

BUMP'KIN, noun [bump, large, swelling.] An awkward heavy rustic; a clown, or country lout.

BUMP'KINLY, adjective Clownish. [Not used.]

BUNCH, noun

1. A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; as the bunch on a camel's back.

2. A cluster; a number of the same kind growing together; as a bunch of grapes.

3. A number of things tied together; as a bunch of keys; a bunch or rods.

4. A collection of things; a knot; as a bunch of hair; a bunch of trees.

BUNCH, verb intransitive To swell out in a protuberance; to be protuberant or round.

BUNCH, verb transitive To form or tie in a bunch or bunches.

BUNCH'-BACKED, adjective [bunch and back.] Having a bunch on the back; crooked.

BUNCH'INESS, noun The quality of being bunchy, or growing in bunches.

BUNCH'Y, adjective Growing in bunches; like a bunch; having tufts.

BUN'DLE, noun

1. A number of things put together.

2. A roll; any thing bound or rolled into a convenient form for conveyance; as a bundle of lace; a bundle of hay.

BUNDLE, verb transitive To tie or bind in a bundle or roll; often followed by up; as, to bundle up clothes.

BUNG, noun

1. The stopple of the orifice in the bilge of a cask.

2. The hole or orifice in the bilge of a cast.

BUNG, verb transitive To stop the orifice in the bilge of a cask with a bung; to close up.

BUNG'-HOLE, noun [bung and hole.] The hole or orifice in the bilge of a cask.

BUNG'LE, verb intransitive bung'gl. To perform in a clumsy, awkward manner; as, to bungle in making shoes.

BUNG'LE, verb transitive To make or mend clumsily; to both; to manage awkwardly; with up.

BUNG'LE, noun A botch; inaccuracy; gross blunder; clumsy performance.

BUNG'LER, noun A clumsy awkward workman; one who performs without skill.

BUNG'LING, participle present tense Performing awkwardly.

BUNG'LING, adjective Clumsy; awkwardly done.

BUNG'LINGLY, adverb Clumsily; awkwardly.

BUNK, noun A case or cabin of boards for a bed; a word used in some parts of America.

BUNN, or BUN, noun [Gr. a hill, and a cake offered to deities.]

A small cake, or a kind of sweet bread.

BUN'SING, noun An animal found at the Cape of Good Hope, resembling the ferret, but twice as large. When pursued, it emits an intolerable stench.

BUNT, noun The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail.

BUNT, verb intransitive To swell out; as, the sail bunts.

1. In popular language, to push with the horns; to butt. [See Point.]

BUNT'ER, noun A cant word for a woman who picks up rags in the streets; hence, a low vulgar woman.

BUNT'ING, noun A bird of the genus Emberiza. The name is applied to different species, as the English bunting and the rice bunting

BUNT'ING, or BUN'TINE, noun A thin woolen stuff, of which the colors or flags and signals of ships are made.

BUNT'LINES, noun Ropes fastened to cringles on the bottoms of square sails, to draw them up to their yards.

BUOY, noun A close empty cask, or a block of wood or cork, fastened by a rope to an anchor, and floating on the water, to show where the anchor is situated. Buoys are of various kinds, as can-buoys, in the form of a cone; nun-buoys, which are large in the middle, and tapering nearly to a point at each end; cable-buoys, empty casks, employed to buoy up the cable, in rocky anchorage. Buoys are used also as marks, to point out the situation of rocks, shoals, or a channel.

To stream the buoy is to let it fall by the ship's side into the water, before letting go the anchor.

BUOY'ANCY, noun The quality of floating on the surface of water, or in the atmosphere; specific lightness.

BUOY'ANT, adjective Floating; light; that will not sink; having the quality of rising or floating in a fluid.

1. Bearing up, as a fluid; sustaining another body. [Unusual.]

BUOY'ROPE, noun [buoy and rope.] The rope which fastens a buoy to an anchor.

BUOY, verb transitive To keep afloat in a fluid; to bear up, or keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; with up.

1. To support, or sustain; to keep from sinking into ruin or despondency.

2. To fix buoys, as a direction to mariners.

BUOY, verb intransitive To float; to rise by specific lightness.

BUPRES'TES, noun A species of cantharides, of a nauseous scent, and biting severely.

BUR,

BUR'-REED, noun A plant, the Sparganium.

BUR'BAST, noun A different orthography of bombast, which see.]

1. A cloth made by sewing one stuff upon another; patchwork.

2. Linen stuffed with cotton; stuffing; waddling.

BUM'BLE BEE, noun [Latin bombus, a buzzing.] A large bee, sometimes called humble bee; so named from it sound.

BUR'BOT, noun [from Latin barbatus, so named from its beard.]

A fish of the genus Gadus, shaped like an eel, but shorter, with a flat head, and on the nose it has two small beards, and another on the chin. It is disgusting in appearance, but delicate food. It is called also eel-pout.

BURD'ELAIS, noun A sort of grape.

BURD'EN, noun burd'n; written also burthen. [Latin fero, or porto.]

1. That which is borne or carried; a load. Hence,

2. That which is borne with labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome or oppressive.

3. A birth.

4. The verse repeated in a song, or the return of the theme at the end of each verse; the chorus; so called from the application of this word to the drone or base, and the pipe or string which plays it, in an instrument. A chord which is to be divided, to perform the intervals of music, when open and undivided, is also called the burden

5. In common language, that which is often repeated; a subject on which one dwells.

6. A fixed quantity of certain commodities; as a burden of gad steel, 120 pounds.

7. The contents of a ship; the quantity or number of tons, a vessel will carry; as a ship of a hundred tons burden

8. A club. [Not in use.]

BURD'EN, verb transitive burd'n. To load; to lay on a heavy load; to incumber with weight. Hence,

1. To oppress with any thing grievous; as, to burden a nation with taxes.

2. To surcharge; as, to burden the memory.

BURD'ENED, participle passive Loaded with weight; incumbered; oppressed.

BURD'ENER, noun One who loads; an oppressor

BURD'ENOUS, adjective Grievous; heavy to be borne; oppressive.

1. Cumbersome; useless.

BURD'ENSOME, adjective Heavy; grievous to be borne; causing uneasiness or fatigue; oppressive.

BURD'ENSOMENESS, noun The quality of being burdensome; heaviness; oppressiveness.

BUR'DOCK, noun [bur and dock.] A genus of plants, called Arctium. They are troublesome weeds.

The lesser burdock is a species of zanthium.

BU'REAU, noun buro.

1. A chest of drawers, for keeping papers or clothes.

2. An ambassador's or secretary's office.

In Spanish, this word bureo is a court of justice for the trial of persons belonging to the king's household.

BURG, noun [This is the same word as borough, the only difference being in the pronunciation of the final letter.]

A borough; originally a fortified town, but now a city or town, which send members to parliament, whether incorporated or not. [See Borough.]

BURG'AGE, noun [from burg.] In English law, tenure in burgage or burgage tenure, is tenure in socage, applied to cities or towns, or where houses, or lands which were formerly the site of houses, in an ancient borough, are held of some lord in common socage by a certain established rent; a remnant of Saxon liberty.

BURG'AMOT, noun A species of pear. [See Bergamot.]

1. A kind of perfume. [See Bergamot.]

BURG'ANET,

BURGEOIS', noun A burgess.

BURGEOIS',

BOURGEOIS', noun burjois'. A species of type, or printing letter,

smaller than long primer, and larger than brevier.

BURGEOIS', n. A burgess.

BURGEON. [See Bourgeon.]

BURG'ESS, noun

1. An inhabitant of a borough, or walled town; or one who possesses a tenement therein; a citizen or freeman of a borough.

2. A representative of a borough in parliament.

3. A magistrate of certain towns.

4. Before the revolution, the representatives in the popular branch of the legislature of Virginia, were called burgesses, as the House of Burgesses. It is now called the House of Delegate.

BURGH, noun burg. A different orthography of burg, borough, which see.

BURGH'-BOTE, noun [burgh and bote.] In old laws, a contribution towards the building or repairing of castles, or walls, for the defense of a city or town.

BURGH'-BRECH, noun [burgh and break.] A fine imposed on a burgh for a breach of the peace.

BURGH'ER, noun [from burg.] An inhabitant of a burgh or borough, who enjoys the privileges of the borough of which he is a free man. In America, it is applied to any native citizen, especially in the state of New York.

BURGH'MOTE, noun [burgh and mote, meeting.] The court of a burgh or borough.

BURG'LAR, noun [burgh or burg, a house] One guilty of nocturnal house breaking; one who breaks and enters a mansion house, with intent to commit a felony.

BURGLARIAN, noun A person guilty of burglary.

BURGLA'RIOUS, adjective Pertaining to burglary; constituting the crime of burglary.

To come down a chimney is held a burglarious entry.

BURGLA'RIOUSLY, adverb With an intent to commit burglary; in the manner of a burglar.

BURG'LARY, noun The act or crime of nocturnal house breaking, with an intent to commit a felony. To constitute this crime, the act must be committed in the night, or when there is not day-light enough to discern a man's face. It must be in a mansion house, or in an adjoining building which is a part or parcel of the mansion. There must be an actual breaking and an entry; but an opening made by the offender, as by taking out a pane of glass, or lifting a window, raising a latch, picking a lock, or removing any fastening, amounts to a breaking; and a putting in of the hand, after such breaking, is an entry. The act must also be done with an intent to commit felony.

BURG'OM'ASTER, noun [burg and master.] A burgh-master; a magistrate or one employed in the government of a city. The burgomasters are the chief magistrates of the great towns, in Holland, Flanders and Germany.

BURG'ONET, noun A kind of helmet, the Spanish murrion.

BUR'GRAVE, noun [burg] In some European countries, an hereditary governor of a town or castle.

BUR'GUNDY, noun A kind of wine, so called from burgundy in France.

Burgundy pitch is turpentine boiled down to a firmer consistence.

BURH, is the same as burg, burgh, with the aspirate. It is Saxon, and signifies a city, a castle, a house, or tower. Hence in composition it signified defense, protection; as cwenburh, [queen-burh] a woman ready to assist; Cuthburh, eminent for assistances.

BURIAL, noun ber'rial. [See Bury.] The act of burying a deceased person; sepulture; interment; the act of depositing a dead body in the earth, in a tomb or vault, or in the water.

1. The act of placing any thing under earth or water; as, to bury see in the earth.

2. The church service for funerals.

BURIAL'PLACE, noun A place appropriated to the burial of the dead; a grave-yard.

BURIER, noun ber'rier. One who buries a deceased person.

BU'RIN, noun A graver; an instrument for engraving.

BURL, verb transitive [See Burly.] To dress cloth as fullers do.

1. To pick knots and loose threads off from cloth.

BUR'LACE, noun [A contraction of burdelais.] A sort of grape.

BURL'ER, noun A dresser of cloth.

BURLESK', adjective [The termination esque answers to Eng.] Jocular; tending to excite laughter by ludicrous images, or by a contrast between the subject and the manner of treating it, as when a trifling subject is treated with gravity.

BURLESQUE,

BURLESK', noun Ludicrous representation; a contrast between the subject and the manner of treating it, which tends to excite laughter or ridicule.

1. A composition in which a trifling subject or low incident is treated with great gravity, as a subject of great dignity or importance; or a composition in which the contrast between the subject and the manner of considering it renders it ludicrous or ridiculous; as in Virgil Travestie, the Lutrin of Boileau, Butler's Hudibras and Trumbull's McFingal.

BURLESQUE,

BURLESK', verb transitive To turn into ridicule; or to make ludicrous by representation; as by treating a low or trifling subject with great gravity.

BURLESK'ER, noun One who burlesques, or turns to ridicule.

BURLESQUE,

BURLESQ'UER,

BURLET'TA, noun A comic opera; a musical entertainment.

BURLESQ'UER,

BURLET'TA, n. A comic opera; a musical entertainment.

BUR'LINESS, noun [See Burly.] Bulk; bluster.

BURL'Y, adjective [The sense probably is swelled.] Great in size; bulky; timid; falsely great; boisterous. This word is obsolete or nearly so in America; but hurly-burly is common in vulgar use, for noise, confusion, uproar.

BURN, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive burned or burnt. [Latin pruna, and perhaps, furnus, fornaz, a furnace. The primary sense is, to rage, to act with violent excitement.]

1. To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; frequently with up; as, to burn up wood.

2. To expel the volatile parts and reduce to charcoal by fire; as, to burn wood into coal. Hence, in popular language, to burn a kiln of wood, is to char the wood.

3. To cleanse of soot by burning; to inflame; as, to burn a chimney; an extensive use of the word.

4. To harden in the fire; to bake or harden by heat; as, to burn bricks or a brick kiln.

5. To scorch; to affect by heat; as, to burn the clothes or the legs by the fire; to burn meat or bread in cookery.

6. To injure by fire; to affect the flesh by heat.

7. To dry up or dissipate; with up; as, to burn up tears.

8. To dry excessively; to cause to wither by heat; as, the sun burns the grass or plants.

9. To heat or inflame; to affect with excessive stimulus; as, ardent spirits burn the stomach.

10. To affect with heat in cookery, so as to give the food a disagreeable taste. Hence the phrase burnt to.

11. To calcine with heat or fire; to expel the volatile matter from substances, so that they are easily pulverized; as, to burn oyster shells, or lime-stone.

12. To affect with excess of heat; as, the fever burns a patient.

13. To subject to the action of fire; to heat or dry; as, to burn colors.

To burn up, to consume entirely by fire.

To burn out, to burn till the fuel is all consumed.

BURN, verb intransitive To be on fire; to flame; as, the mount burned with fire.

1. To shine; to sparkle.

O prince! O wherefore burn your eyes?

2. To be inflamed with passion or desire; as, to burn with anger or love.

3. To act with destructive violence, as fire.

Shall thy wrath burn like fire?

4. To be in commotion; to rage with destructive violence.

The groan still deepens and the combat burns.

5. To be heated; to be in a glow; as, the face burns.

6. To be affected with a sensation of heat, pain or acidity; as, the heart burns.

7. To feel excess of heat; as, the flesh burns by a fire; a patient burns with a fever.

To burn out, to burn till the fuel is exhausted and the fire ceases.

BURN, noun A hurt or injury of the flesh caused by the action of fire.

1. The operation of burning or baking, as in brickmaking; as, they have a good burn

BURN'ABLE, adjective That may be burnt. [Little used.]

BURN'-COW or BURST'-COW, noun A genus of insects, with filiform feelers, of several species; very obnoxious to cattle.

BURN'ED, BURNT, participle passive Consumed with fire; scorched or dried with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire.

BURN'ER, noun A person who burns or sets fire to any thing.

BURN'ET, noun A plant, Poterium or garden burnet

BURN'ING, participle present tense Consuming with fire; flaming; scorching; hardening by fire; calcining; charring; raging as fire; glowing.

BURN'ING, noun Combustion; the act of expelling volatile matter and reducing to ashes, or to a calx; a fire; inflammation; the heat or raging of passion. In surgery, actual cautery; cauterization.

BURN'ING, adjective Powerful; vehement; as a burning shame; a burning scent.

1. Much heated; very hot; scorching.

The burning plains of India.

BURN'ISH, verb transitive To polish by friction; to make smooth, bright and glossy; as, to burnish steel.

BURN'ISH, verb intransitive To grow bright or glossy.

BURN'ISH, noun Gloss; brightness; luster.

BURN'ISHED, participle passive Polished; made glossy.

BURN'ISHER, noun The person who polishes, or makes glossy.

1. An instrument used in polishing, of different kinds. It may be a piece of round polished steel, a dog's or wolf's tooth, a piece of copper, agate or pebble. etc. It is used for giving a gloss or smoothness to metals, to the edges of books, etc.

BURN'ISHING, participle present tense Polishing; making smooth and glossy.

BURN'OOSE,

BURN'OS, noun An upper cloke or garment.

BURN'OS, n. An upper cloke or garment.

BURNT, participle passive of burn. Consumed; scorched; heated; subjected to the action of fire.

BURR, noun The lobe or lap of the ear.

1. The round knob of a horn next a deer's head.

2. The sweetbread.

BURR-pump, or bilge-pump. A pump, having a staff of 6, 7 or 8 feet long with a bar of wood to which the leather is nailed, which serves instead of a box. This staff is worked by men who pull it up and down, with a rope fastened to the middle of it.

BUR'REL, noun A sort of pear, called also the red butter pear, from its smooth, delicious, soft pulp.

BUR'ROCK, noun A small wier or dam where wheels are laid in a river, for catching fish.

BUR'ROW, noun A different orthography of burgh, borough, which see.

BUR'ROW, noun A hollow place in the earth or in a warren, where small animals lodge, and sometimes deposit their provisions. Some animals excavate the earth, by scratching, and form these lodges.

BUR'ROW, verb intransitive To lodge in a hole excavated in the earth, as coneys or rabbits. In a more general sense, to lodge in any deep or concealed place. The word seems to include the idea of excavating a hole for a lodge, as well as lodging in it; but the verb is not often used transitively, as to burrow the earth.

BUR'ROWING, participle present tense Lodging in a burrow.

BURS'AR, noun [See Burse.] A treasurer, or cash-keeper, as the bursar of a college, or of a monastery; a purser.

1. A student to whom a stipend is paid out of a burse or fund appropriated for that purpose, as the exhibitioners sent to the universities in Scotland by each presbytery.

BURS'ARY, noun The treasury of a college, or monastery.

1. In Scotland, an exhibition.

BURSE, noun burs.

1. A public edifice in certain cities, for the meeting of merchants to consult on matters of trade and money, and to negotiate bills of exchange. This is the name used in many cities in Europe, but in England and America, such building is called an exchange. The new burse in Paris is one of the most elegant buildings in the city.

2. In France, a fund or foundation for the maintenance of poor scholars in their studies. In the middle ages, it signified a little college, or a ball in a university.

BURST, verb intransitive preterit tense and participle passive burst The old participle bursten is nearly obsolete.

1. To fly or break open with force, or with sudden violence; to suffer a violent disruption. The peculiar force of this word is, in expressing a sudden rupture, with violence, or expansion, or both. Hence it is generally used to signify the sudden rupture of a thing by internal force, and a liberation from confinement; as, to burst from a prison; the heart bursts with grief.

2. To break away; to spring from; as, to burst from the arms.

3. To come or fall upon suddenly or with violence; to rush upon unexpectedly; as, a sound bursts upon our ears.

4. To issue suddenly, or to come from a hidden or retired place into more open view; as, a river bursts from a valley; a spring bursts from the earth.

5. To break forth into action suddenly; as, to burst into tears.

6. To break or rush in with violence; as, to burst into a house or a room.

It is often followed by an intensive particle; as, out, forth, away, from, or asunder.

BURST, verb transitive To break or rend by force or violence; to open suddenly; as, to burst a chain or a door; to burst a cannon.

BURST, noun A sudden disruption; a violent rending; more appropriately, a sudden explosion or shooting forth; as a burst of thunder; a burst of applause, a burst of passion.

1. A rupture, a hernia, or the unnatural protrusion of the contents of the abdomen.

BURST, or BURST'EN, participle passive or adjective Affected with a rupture or hernia.

BURST, participle passive Opened or rent asunder by violence.

BURST'ENNESS, noun The state of having a rupture; the hernia.

BURST'ER, noun One that bursts.

BURST'ING, participle present tense Rending or parting by violence; exploding.

BURST'-WORT, noun The Herniaria, a plant said to be good against hernia or ruptures.

BURT, noun A flat fish of the turbot kind.

BURTHEN. [See Burden.]

BUR'TON, noun A small tackle formed by two blocks or pulleys, used to set up or tighten the topmost shrouds, and for various other purposes; called also top-burton-tackle.

BURY, noun ber'ry. This word is a different orthography of burg, burh, borough. It signifies a house, habitation or castle, and is retained in many names of places, as in Shrewsbury, Danbury, Aldermanbury. The word is used by Grew, for burrow.

BURY, verb transitive ber'ry.

1. To deposit a deceased person in the grave; to inter a corpse; to entomb.

2. To cover with earth, as seed sown.

3. To hide; to conceal; to overwhelm; to cover with any thing; as, to bury any one in the ruins of a city.

4. To withdraw or conceal in retirement; as, to bury one's self in a monastery or in solitude.

5. To commit to the water; to deposit in the ocean; as dead bodies buried in the deep.

6. To place one thing within another.

Thy name so buried in her.

7. To forget and forgive; to hide in oblivion; as, to bury an injury.

To bury the hatchet, in the striking metaphorical language of American Indians, is to lay aside the instruments of war, forget injuries, and make peace.

BURYING, participle present tense Interring; hiding; covering with earth; overwhelming.

BURYING, noun The act of interring the dead; sepulture. John 12:7.

BUSH, noun [Latin pasco, originally, to feed on sprouts.]

1. A shrub with branches; a thick shrub; also, a cluster of shrubs. With hunters, a fox tail.

2. An assemblage of branches interwoven.

3. A branch of a tree fixed or hung out as a tavern sign. Hence, since the branch has been discontinued, a coronated frame of wood hung out as a tavern sign, is so called. Hence the English proverb, 'Good wine needs no bush '

[I know not that this word is thus used in the U. States.]

4. A circle of metal let into the sheaves of such blocks as have iron pins, to prevent their wearing.

This word when applied to sheaves is called bush but when applied to the circular iron of a cart wheel is, in America, called a box.

BUSH, verb intransitive To grow thick or bushy.

BUSH, verb transitive To furnish a block with a bush

BUSH'EL, noun A dry measure, containing eight gallons, or four pecks. The standard English bushel by Stat.12 . Henry VII., contains eight gallons of wheat, each gallon eight pounds of wheat, troy weight, the pound, twelve ounces troy, the ounce, twenty sterlings, and the sterling, thirty two grains of wheat growing in the middle of the ear. The contents are 2145.6 solid inches, equivalent to 1131 ounces and 14 pennyweights troy.

The English bushel is used also in the U. States.

Bushel signifies both the quantity or capacity, and the vessel which will contain the quantity.

1. In popular language, a large quantity indefinitely.

2. The circle of iron in the nave of a wheel; in America, called a box. [See Bush.]

BUSH'ELAGE, noun A duty payable on commodities by the bushel. [Not used in the U. States.]

BUSH'INESS, noun [from bush, bushy.] The quality of being bushy, thick or intermixed, like the branches of a bush.

BUSH'-MAN, noun A woodsman; a name which the Dutch give to the wild and ferocious inhabitants of Africa, near the Cape of Good Hope.

BUSH'MENT, noun [from bush.] A thicket; a cluster of bushes. [Not used.]

BUSH'Y, adjective [from bush.] Full of branches; thick and spreading, like a bush; as a bushy beard or brier.

1. Full of bushes; overgrown with shrubs.

BUSIED, participle passive of busy; pronoun biz'zied.

BUSILESS, adjective biz'ziless. [See Busy.] Without business; at leisure; unemployed.

BUSILY, adverb biz'zily. With constant occupation; actively; earnestly; as, to be busily employed.

1. With an air of hurry or importance; with too much curiosity; importunately; officiously.

BUSINESS, noun biz'ness. [See Busy.] Employment; that which occupies the time, attention and labor of men, for the purpose of profit or improvement--a word of extensive use and indefinite signification. business is a particular occupation, as agriculture, trade, mechanic art, or profession, and when used of a particular employment, the word admits of the plural number, businesses. business is also any temporary employment.

1. Affairs; concerns; as, a man leaves his business in an unsettled state.

2. The subject of employment; that which engages the care and attention.

You are so much the business of our souls.

3. Serious engagement; important occupation, in distinction from trivial affairs.

It should be the main business of life to serve God, and obey his commands.

4. Concern; right of action or interposing.

'What business has a man with the disputes of others?'

5. A point; a matter of question; something to be examined or considered.

Fitness to govern is a perplexed business

6. Something to be done; employment of importance to one's interest, opposed to amusement; as, we have no business in town.

They were far from the Zidonians and had no business with any one.

7. Duty, or employment that duty enjoins. A lawyer's business is to do justice to his clients.

To do the business for a man, is to kill, destroy or ruin him.

BUSK, noun A piece of steel or whale bone, worn by women to strengthen their stays; a word dependent on fashion.

BUSK, noun A bush. [Not used.]

BUSK, verb intransitive To be active or busy.

BUSK'ET, noun A small bush, or a compartment of shrubs in a garden.

BUSK'ET, noun In gardening, a grove, a compartment formed by branches of trees, regularly or irregularly disposed, according to fancy.

BUSK'IN, noun A kind of half boot, or high shoe, covering the foot and leg to the middle and tied underneath the knee, worn by actors in tragedy on the state. The buskins of the ancients had very thick soles, to raise the actors and actresses to the stature of the persons they represented.

1. In classic authors, the word is used for tragedy.

BUSK'INED, adjective Dressed in buskins.

BUSK'Y, adjective Busky; wooded; shaded or overgrown with trees or shrubs; generally written bosky. [See Bush.]

BUSS, noun [Latin basio.] A kiss; a salute with the lips.

1. A small vessel, from 50 to 70 tons burthen, carrying two masts, and two sheds or cabins, one at each end; used in the herring fishery.

BUSS, verb transitive To kiss; to salute with the lips.

BUST, noun [Latin bustum.] In sculpture, the figure of a person in relief, showing only the head, shoulders and stomach; ordinarily placed on a pedestal or console. In speaking of an antique, we say the head is marble and the bust porphyry or bronze; that is, the shoulders and stomach. The Italians use the word for the trunk of the body from the neck to the hips.

BUST'ARD, noun The tarda, a species of fowl of the grallic order, and genus Otis. The fowl grows to the weight of 25 or 27 pounds, with a breadth of wing of six or seven feet. It inhabits England, feeding on green corn and other vegetables, and on earth-worms. It runs fast and takes flight with difficulty.

BUS'TLE, verb intransitive bus'l. [ This word may be allied to busy, or to Latin festino.]

To stir quick; to be very active; to be very quick in motion, often or usually with the sense of noise or agitation.

And leave the world for me to bustle in.

BUS'TLE, noun bus'l. Hurry; great stir; rapid motion with noise and agitation; tumult from stirring or agitation; combustion.

All would have been well without this bustle

BUS'TLER, noun bus'ler. An active stirring person.

BUS'TLING, participle present tense bus'ling. Stirring; moving actively with noise or agitation.

BUST'O, noun A bust; sometimes perhaps used for a statue.

BUSY, adjective biz'zy.

1. Employed with constant attention; engaged about something that renders interruption inconvenient; as, a man is busy in posting his books.

My mistress is busy and cannot come.

2. Actively employed; occupied without cessation; constantly in motion; as a busy bee.

3. Active in that which does not concern the person; meddling with or prying into the affairs of others; officious; importunate; hence, troublesome; vexatious.

4. Much occupied with employment; as a busy day.

BUSY, verb transitive biz'zy. To employ with constant attention; to keep engaged; to make or keep busy; as, to busy one's self with books.

To be busied with genue and species.

BUT, part. for butan.

1. Except; besides; unless.

Who can it be, but perjured Lycon?

That is, removed, separated, excepted.

Lycon being separated, or excepted, who can it be?

And but infirmity,

Which waits upon worn times, hath something seized

His wish'd ability, he had himself

The lands and waters measured.

That is, except, unless, separate this fact, that infirmity had seized his ability, he had measured the lands and waters.

In this use but butan, is a participle equivalent to excepting, and may be referred to the person speaking, or more naturally, it is equivalent to excepted, and with the following words, or clause, forming the case absolute.

Who can it be, Lycon being excepted?

And but my noble Moor is true of mind, it were enough to put him to ill thinking.

It cannot be but nature hath some director, of infinite power, to guide her in all her ways.

There is no question but the King of Spain will reform most of the abuses.

It is not impossible but I may alter the complexion of my play.

In the last three examples, that is omitted after but

It is not impossible but that I may alter the complexion of my play.

In these and all similar phrases, but denotes separation, exception.

2. Only.

A formidable man, but to his friends.

There is but one man present.use of but is a modern innovation; but perhaps too firmly established to be corrected. In all such phrases, a negative, not, nothing, or other word, is omitted. He is not a formidable man, but to his enemies, that is, except. There is not but one man present, that is, there is not except or besides one present. So also, 'Our light affliction is but for a moment.' 2 Corinthians 4:2. Our affliction is not, except for a moment.

If they kill us, we shall but die. 2 Kings 7:2.

The common people in America retain the original and correct phrase, usually employing a negative. They do not say, I have but one. On the other hand, they say, I have not but one, that is, I have not except one; except one, and I have none. This word but for butan is not a conjunction, nor has it the least affinity to that part of speech.

BUT, conjunction [Eng.over.]

More; further; noting an addition to supply what is wanting to elucidate, or modify the sense of the preceding part of a sentence, or of a discourse, or to continue the discourse, or to exhibit a contrast.

Now abide faith, hope, charity, these three;

BUT, the greatest of these is charity. 1 Corinthians 13:6.

When pride cometh, then cometh shame; but with the

lowly is wisdom. Proverbs 11:1.

Our wants are many and grievous; but quite of another

kind.

The house of representatives were well agreed in passing the bill; but the senate dissented.

This word is in fact a noun equivalent to addition or supply; but in grammatical construction, no inconvenience results from considering it to be a connective.

BUT, noun [Latin peto.]

1. An end; a limit; a bound. It is used particularly for the larger end of a thing, as of a piece of timber, or of a fallen tree; that which grows nearest the earth. It is not often applied to the bound or limit of land; yet butted, for bounded, is often used.

2. The end of a plank in a ship's side or bottom, which unites with another; generally written butt.

BUT, verb intransitive To be bounded by; to lie contiguous to; a word used in America. [See Abut.]

BUTCH'ER, noun

1. One who slaughters animals for market; or one whose occupation is to kill animals for the table. The word may and often does include the person who cuts up and sells meat.

2. One who kills men, or commands troops to kill them; one who sheds, or causes to be shed human blood in abundance; applied to princes and conquerors who delight in war, or are remarkable for destroying human life.

BUTCH'ER, verb transitive To kill or slaughter animals for food, or for market.

1. To murder; but emphatically applied to murder committed with unusual cruelty, or circumstances of uncommon barbarity.

BUTCH'ERLINESS, noun A cruel, savage, butcherly manner.

BUTCH'ERLY, adjective [from butcher.] Cruel; savage; murderous; grossly and clumsily barbarous.

BUTCH'ERY, noun The business of slaughtering cattle for the table or for market.

1. Murder, especially murder committed with unusual barbarity; great slaughter.

2. The place where animals are killed for market; a shambles, or slaughter-house; also, a place where blood is shed.

BUT'LER, noun A servant or officer in the houses of princes and great men, whose principal business is to take charge of the liquors, place, etc. Formerly, an officer in the court of France, being the same as the grand echanson or great cup-bearer of the present times.

BUT'LERAGE, noun A duty of two shillings on every ton of wine imported into England by foreigners or merchant strangers. It was a composition for the privileges granted to them by king John and Edward I., and originally received by the crown; but is has been granted to certain noblemen. It was called butlerage because originally paid to the king's butler for the king.

BUT'LERSHIP, noun The office of a butler. Genesis 40:21.

BUT'MENT, noun

1. A buttress of an arch; the supporter, or that part which joins it to the upright pier.

2. The mass of stone or solid work at the end of a bridge, by which the extreme arches are sustained. The mass of stone at the end of a timber bridge, without arches, is called by the same name. It is written also abutment.

BUT'SHAFT, noun [but and shaft.] An arrow to shoot at butts with.

BUTT, noun [See But.] Literally, end, furthest point. Hence, a mark to be shot at; the point where a mark is set or fixed to be shot at.

1. The point to which a purpose or effort is directed.

2. The object of aim; the thing against which an attack is directed. Hence,

3. The person at whom ridicule, jests or contempt are directed; as the butt of ridicule.

4. A push or thrust given by the head of an animal, as the butt of a ram; also, a thrust in fencing.

5. A cask whose contents are 126 gallons of wine, or two hogsheads; called also a pipe. A butt of beer is 108 gallons, and from 1500 to 2200 weight of currants is a butt

6. The end of a plank in a ship's side or bottom.

7. A particular kind of hinge for doors, etc.

BUTT, verb intransitive [Latin peto.] To thrust the head forward; to strike by thrusting the head against, as an ox or a ram.

BUT'TER, noun [Latin butyrum.] An oily substance obtained from cream or milk by churning. Agitation separates the fat or oily part of milk from the thin or serous part, called butter-milk.

Butter, in the old chimistry, was applied to various preparations; as,

Butter of antimony, now called the sublimated muriate of antimony, and made by distilling a mixture of corrosive sublimate and the regulus.

Butter of arsenic, sublimated muriate of arsenic, made by a like process.

Butter of bismuth, sublimated muriate of bismuth.

Butter of tin, sublimated muriate of tin.

Butter of zink, sublimated muriate of zink.

Butter of cacao, is an oily concrete white matter obtained from the cacao nut, made by bruising the nut and boiling it in water.

Butter of wax, the oleaginous part of wax, obtained by distillation, and of a butyraceous consistence.

BUT'TER, verb transitive To smear with butter

1. To increase the stakes at every throw or every game; a cant term among gamesters.

BUT'TERFLY, noun [from the color of a yellow species.]

Papilio, a genus of insects, of the order of lepidopters. They have four wings imbricated with a kind of downy scales; the tongue is convoluted in a spiral form; and the body is hairy. The species are numerous. Butter-flies proceed from the crysalids of caterpillars; caterpillars proceed from eggs deposited by butterflies; they then change into crysalids, which produce butterflies, which again deposit their eggs.

BUT'TERIS, noun An instrument of steel set in wood, for paring the hoof of a horse.

BUT'TERNUT, noun [butter and nut.]

The fruit of an American tree, the Juglans cinerea; so called from the oil it contains. The tree bears a resemblance, in its general appearance, to the walnut, or black walnut, so called. It is sometimes called oilnut and white walnut. The tree is called also butternut or butternut-tree. Dr. M. Cutler calls it Juglans Cathartica.

BUT'TERWORT, noun A species of Pinguicula, a plant growing on bogs or soft grounds. The leaves are covered with soft pellucid prickles, which secrete a glutinous liquor; and milk, in which these are steeped, or washed, acquires, in a day or two, consistency, and is an agreeable food, used in the north of Sweden.

BUT'TERY, adjective [from butter.] Having the qualities or appearance of butter.

BUT'TERY, noun An apartment in a house, where butter, milk, provisions and utensils are kept. In some colleges, a room where liquors, fruit and refreshments are kept for sale to the students.

BUT'TOCK, noun The rump, or the protuberant part behind.

1. The convexity of a ship behind, under the stern.

BUT'TON, noun but'n.

1. A knob; a small ball; a catch, used to fasten together the different parts of dress, made of metal, silk, mohair, wood, etc.

2. Any knob or ball fastened to another body; a small protuberant body.

3. A bud; a gem of a plant.

4. The button of the reins of a bridle, is a ring of leather, with the reins passed through, which runs along the length of the reins.

5. A flat piece of wood, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten doors.

6. A small round mass of metal, found at the bottom of a crucible, in chimical experiments.

7. The sea-urchin, an animal which has prickles instead of feet.

BUT'TON, verb transitive but'n. To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose, or make secure with buttons; often followed with up, as to button up a waistcoat.

1. To dress or clothe. [Not used.]

BUT'TRESS, noun [This word appears to be composed of but, end, and truss, or some word of that family.]

1. A prop; a wall or abutment built archwise, serving to support another wall on the outside, when very high or loaded with a heavy superstructure.

2. Any prop or support.

BUT'TRESS, verb transitive To support by a buttress; to prop.

BUT'TRESSED, adjective Supported with a buttress.

BUTTS, noun plural [from butt.] A place where archers meet to shoot at mark. Also, short pieces of land in arable ridges and furrows.

BUT'-WINK, noun A bird.

BUTYRA'CEOUS,

BUT'YROUS, adjective [from butyrum, butter.] Having the qualities of butter; resembling butter.

BUT'YROUS, a. [from butyrum, butter.] Having the qualities of butter; resembling butter.

BUX'OM, adjective

1. Obedient; obsequious; ready to obey.

2. Gay; lively; brisk.

3. Wanton; jolly.

BUX'OMLY, adverb Obediently.

1. Wantonly; amorously.

BUX'OMNESS, noun Meekness; obedience.

1. Briskness; amorousness.

BUY, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive bought. pronoun bawt.]

1. To acquire the property, right or title to any thing, by paying a consideration or an equivalent in money. It differs from barter only in this, that in barter the consideration or equivalent is some species of commodity; in purchase, the consideration is money paid or promised. To purchase; to acquire by paying a price to the satisfaction of the seller; opposed to sell.

2. To procure by a consideration given, or by something that is deemed worth the thing bought; to procure at a price; as, to buy pleasure with praise; to buy favor with flattery.

3. To bribe; to corrupt or pervert the judgment, by paying a consideration.

To buy off, to influence to compliance; to cause to bend or yield by some consideration, as to buy off conscience; to detach by a consideration given, as to buy off one from a party.

To buy out, to buy off, or detach from.

1. To purchase the share or shares of a person in a stock, fund, or partnership, by which the seller is separated from the company, and the purchaser takes his place, as, A buys out B. To purchase stock in any fund or partnership, is to buy in.

To buy on credit, is to purchase a thing, on a promise in fact or in law, to make payment at a future day.

To buy the refusal, is to give money for the right of purchasing at a fixed price at a future time.

To buy the small pox, in South Wales, is to receive it by inoculation.

In popular language, to buy is to pay dear for, as in Chaucer.

BUY, verb intransitive To negotiate, or treat about a purchase.

I will buy with you and sell with you.

BUYER, noun One who buys; a purchaser.

BUYING, participle present tense Purchasing.

BUZZ, verb intransitive

1. To make a low hissing sound, as bees; to make the sound of z, with an expiration of breath between the tongue and the roof of the mouth or upper teeth.

2. To whisper; to speak with a low hissing voice; to make a low hissing sound.

BUZZ, verb transitive To whisper; to spread, as report, by whispers, or to spread secretly.

BUZZ, noun The noise of bees; also, a whisper.

BUZZ'ARD, noun

1. A species of falco, or hawk, the buteo; a rapacious, but sluggish bird; the breast usually of a yellowish white; the upper parts of a deep brown. In some parts of America, it is called the great Hen-hawk, from its feeding on poultry.

2. A block-head; a dunce.

BUZZ'ARD, adjective Senseless; stupid.

BUZZARDET', noun A species of Falco or hawk, resembling the buzzard in most respects; but its legs are in proportion rather longer.

BUZZ'ER, noun A whisperer; one who is busy in telling tales secretly.

BUZZ'ING, participle present tense Making a low hissing sound; whispering; tattling in secret.