BUSS

n. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

A kiss; a rude or playful kiss; a smack. Shak.

2.
v.

To kiss; esp. to kiss with a smack, or rudely. "Nor bussed the milking maid." Tennyson. Kissing and bussing differ both in this, We buss our wantons, but our wives we kiss. Herrick.

3.
n.

A small strong vessel with two masts and two cabins; -- used in the herring fishery. The Dutch whalers and herring busses. Macaulay.

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