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A wooden frame or grid for roasting, smoking, or drying meat over fire.

he life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil. Dryden.

ng toward pink, gray, or brown. A visage rough, Deformed, unfeatured, and a skin of buff. Dryden.

ch of parasites. -- Buffalo bug, the carpet beetle. See under Carpet. -- Buffalo chips, dry dung of the buffalo, or bison, used for fuel. [U.S.] -- Buffalo clover (Bot.), a kind of clover (Trifolium reflexum and T.soloniferum) found in the ancient grazing grounds of the American bison. -- Buffalo cod (Zoöl.), a larg…

Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a ship. [Obs.] Dryden.

loud, heavy, or hollow noise, as the bittern; to boom. As a bittern bumps within a reed. Dryden.

Unskillful; awkward; clumsy; as, a bungling workman. Swift. They make but bungling work. Dryden.

d; sustaining another body by being specifically heavier. The water under me was buoyant. Dryden.

ng. The dull burlesque appeared with impudence, And pleased by novelty in spite of sense. Dryden.

r heat does; as, to burn the mouth with pepper. This tyrant fever burns me up. Shak. This dry sorrow burns up all my tears. Dryden. When the cold north wind bloweth, . . . it devoureth the mountains, and burneth the wilderness, and consumeth the Ecclus. xliii. 20, 21.

exciting; vehement; powerful; as, burning zeal. Like a young hound upon a burning scent. Dryden. Burning bush (Bot.), an ornamental shrub (Euonymus atropurpureus), bearing a crimson berry.

rame of burnished steel, that east a glare From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing air. Dryden. Now the village windows blaze, Burnished by the setting sun. Cunningham. Burnishing machine, a machine for smoothing and polishing by compression, as in making paper collars.

A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.

dy. Great Fletcher never treads in buskins here, No greater Jonson dares in socks appear. Dryden.

. If they kill us, we shall but die. 2 Kings vii. 4. A formidable man but to his friends. Dryden.

ee Butt, n.] A snow-white steer before thine altar led, Butts with his threatening brows. Dryden.

The groom his fellow groom at butts defies, And bends his bow, and levels with his eyes. Dryden.

On; along; in traversing. Compare 5. Long labors both by sea and land he bore. Dryden. By land, by water, they renew the charge. Pope.

Private end or view; by-interest. [Obs.] Dryden.

secluded or private walk. He moves afterward in by-walks. Dryden.