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timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water. [Variously written swape, sweep, swepe, and swipe.]

ish and debility of the body, that it will be too distracted to fix itself in meditation. Buckminster.

The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle.

The tongue of a buckle. [Prov. Eng.]

A shield or target. [Obs. or Poetic] "A buckler on a targe." Chaucer.

A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.

of God enter with any pleasure a temple consecrated to devotion and sanctified by prayer Buckminster.

posal. Believe me, your time is not your own; it belongs to God, to religion, to mankind. Buckminster.

ere crowded to death. Clarendon. Fate and the dooming gods are deaf to tears. Dryden. Go, buckle to the law. Dryden.

A projection, or slender appendage or fixture; as, the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance.

hole sum; the whole quantity or amount; the entirety; as, the totalityof human knowledge. Buckle. The totality of a sentence or passage. Coleridge.

ditional. The reveries of the Talmud, a collection of Jewish traditionary interpolations. Buckminster.

nsform. The caresses of parents and the blandishments of friends transmute us into idols. Buckminster. Transmuting sorrow into golden joy Free from alloy. H. Smith.

To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose. [Obs.] Duke of Buckingham.

maining on the ground, as if he were trotting; trippant; -- said of an animal, as a hart, buck, and the like, used as a bearing.

To cry, as a buck in rutting time.

A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft; -- so called by miners. Tub fast, an old mode of treatment for the venereal disease, by sweating in a close place, or tub, and fasting. [Obs.] Shak. -- Tub wheel, a horizontal water wheel, usually in the form of a short cylinder, to the circumference of which sp…

mmonly horizontal, variously constructed, but usually having a series of curved floats or buckets, against which the water acts by its impulse or reaction in flowing either outward from a central chamber, inward from an external casing, or from above downward, etc.; -- also called turbine wheel.

bench, a simple portable lathe, used on a bench by clock makers and watchmakers. -- Turn buckle. See Turnbuckle, in Vocabulary. -- Turn cap, a sort of chimney cap which turns round with the wind so as to present its opening to the leeward. G. Francis. -- Turn of life (Med.), change of life. See under Change. -- Tur…

ide with a vent, or escape, for air, gas, etc.; as, to ventilate a mold, or a water-wheel bucket.