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Resembling the genus Buccinum, or pertaining to the Buccinidæ, a family of marine univalve shells. See Whelk, and Prosobranchiata.

circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches. Blind buckler (Naut.), a solid buckler. -- Buckler mustard (Bot.), a genus of plants (Biscutella) with small bright yellow flowers. The seed vessel on bursting resembles two bucklers or shields. -- Buckler thorn, a plant with se…

A buffet; a blow; -- obsolete except in the phrase "Blindman's buff." Nathless so sore a buff to him it lent That made him reel. Spenser.

Resembling, or characterized by, buff. Buffy coat, the coagulated plasma of blood when the red corpuscles have so settled out that the coagulum appears nearly colorless. This is common in diseased conditions where the corpuscles run together more rapidly and in denser masses than usual. Huxley.

Of or pertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large; fierce. Bull bat (Zoöl.), the night hawk; -- so called from the loud noise it makes while feeding on the wing, in the evening. -- Bull calf. (a) A stupid fellow. -- Bull mackerel (Zoöl.), the chub mackerel. -- Bull pump (Mining), a direct single-acting pump…

lis nigra and species of Sapota and Mimusops. Most of them yield a substance closely resembling gutta-percha.

Growing in bunches, or resembling a bunch; having tufts; as, the bird's bunchy tail.

Of, relating to, or resembling, a bureaucracy.

Abounding in burs, or containing burs; resembling burs; as, burry wool.

and breast. Ambition sighed: she found it vain to trust The faithless column, and the crumbling bust. Pope.

Any substance resembling butter in degree of consistence, or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the chloridess, as butter of antimony, sesquichloride of antimony; also, certain concrete fat oils remaining nearly solid at ordinary temperatures, as butter of cacao, vegetable butter, shea butter. Butter and eg…

Having the qualities of butter; resembling butter.

A hawk resembling the buzzard, but with legs relatively longer.

One who works at cabbling.

To ornament with cabling. See Cabling.

Adorned with cabling.

A fermented liquor made in Cayenne from the grated root of the manioc, and resembling perry. Dunglison.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a corpse, or the changes produced by death; cadaverous; as, cadaveric rigidity. Dunglison. Cadaveric alkaloid, an alkaloid generated by the processes of decomposition in dead animal bodies, and thought by some to be the cause of the poisonous effects produced by the bodies. See Ptomain…

Of or pertaining to the cæcum, or blind gut.

A cavity open at one end, as the blind end of a canal or duct.