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A long solid cylinder, used, instead of a piston or bucket, as a forcer in pumps.

weeds (species of Polygonum) are the type, and which includes also the docks (Rumex), the buckwheat, rhubarb, sea grape (Coccoloba), and several other genera.

A red African antelope (Kobus Vardoni) allied to the water buck.

l thoughts are the invisible, airy precursors of all the storms and tempests of the soul. Buckminster.

conduct. A class of presumptuous men, whom age has not made cautious, nor adversity wise. Buckminster.

A buck in his second year. See Note under 3d Buck. Shak.

Early; blooming; being in the first stage. [Poetic] His starry helm, unbuckled, showed him prime In manhood where youth ended. Milton.

e whole life of man is a perpetual comparison of evidence and balancing of probabilities. Buckminster. We do not call for evidence till antecedent probabilities fail. J. H. Newman.

which is profane; profane language or acts. The brisk interchange of profanity and folly. Buckminster.

re white. The horny sheath of the horns is shed annually. Called also cabrée, cabut, prongbuck, and pronghorned antelope.

oad-leaved species of garlic (Allium ursinum), common in European gardens; -- called also buckram.

To plunder. Sir G. Buck.

To grow again. The snail had power to regrow them all [horns, tongue, etc.] A. B. Buckley.

wing; a second or new growth. Darwin. The regrowth of limbs which had been cut off. A. B. Buckley.

asant and useful companion in every proper place, and every temperate occupation of life. Buckminster.

e heart, which responds to some new note of complaint within the wide scale of human woe. Buckminster. To every theme responds thy various lay. Broome.

or pertaining to a natural order of shrubs and trees (Rhamnaceæ, or Rhamneæ) of which the buckthorn (Rhamnus) is the type. It includes also the New Jersey tea, the supple-jack, and one of the plants called lotus (Zizyphus).

A genus of shrubs and small trees; buckthorn. The California Rhamnus Purchianus and the European R. catharticus are used in medicine. The latter is used for hedges.

One of the berries or drupes of the European buckthorn; also, the buckthorn itself.

so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries. Buckle. To the people . . . but a trifle, to the king but a ridicule. Foxe.