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ct is attached to something, as the frog of a scabbard or the metal loop at the back of a buckle by which it is fastened to a strap.

Shaped like a round buckler or shield; scutate.

A leather loop, passing under a horse's tail, and buckled to the saddle to keep it from slipping forwards.

o debar them, not only from the comforts but from the common decencies of civilized life. Buckle.

be hung up in the nursery of every king, and blazoned on the porch of every royal palace. Buckle.

so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries. Buckle. Deficiency of a curve (Geom.), the amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.

taining to a denomination, especially to a sect or society. "Denominational differences." Buckle.

. By whose hands the blow should be struck which would dismember that once mighty empire. Buckle.

To divert or amuse; to make merry. They could disport themselves. Buckle.

om swine keeping, from eating draff and husks. Shak. The draff and offal of a bygone age. Buckle. Mere chaff and draff, much better burnt. Tennyson.

Counterpoise. The equipoise to the clergy being removed. Buckle.

One who eulogizes or praises; panegyrist; encomiast. Buckle.

One who, or that which, exterminates. Buckle.

Anything that binds and makes fast, as a lock, catch, bolt, bar, buckle, etc.

Incapable of being fathomed; immeasurable; that can not be sounded. And buckle in a waist most fathomless. Shak.

A buckle or clasp. [Obs.] Donne.

A brooch, clasp, or buckle. Mere fibulæ, without a robe to clasp. Wordsworth.

See Flipper. "The flapper of a porpoise." Buckley. Flapper skate (Zoöl.), a European skate (Raia intermedia).

frantic; maddened. -- Fren"zied-ly, adv. The people frenzied by centuries of oppression. Buckle. Up starting with a frenzied look. Sir W Scott.

A clog or patten. [Obs.] Nor were worthy [to] unbuckle his galoche. Chaucer.