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A general name applied to various insects belonging to the Hemiptera; as, the squash bug; the chinch bug, etc.

A light, four-wheeled vehicle, usually with one seat, and with or without a calash top. [U.S.] Buggy cultivator, a cultivator with a seat for the driver. -- Buggy plow, a plow, or set of plows, having a seat for the driver; -- called also sulky plow.

A small and thick old-fashioned watch. [Colloq.]

A brisk, dashing fellow. [Slang Obs.] Shak.

An awkward, heavy country fellow; a clown; a country lout. "Bashful country bumpkins." W. Irving.

To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood. "We'll burn his body in the holy place." Shak.

The effect of burnishing; gloss; brightness; luster. Crashaw.

A thin flat piece of metal, formed from a sheet by punching; a small washer put on the end of a rivet before it is swaged down.

A treasurer, or cash keeper; a purser; as, the bursar of a college, or of a monastery.

g within something, as earth, etc.; to conceal by covering; to hide; as, to bury coals in ashes; to bury the face in the hands. And all their confidence Under the weight of mountains buried deep. Milton.

A bust; a statue. With some antick bustoes in the niches. Ashmole.

A one-horse carriage with two seats and a calash top.

a long gown with sleeves reaching below the hands. It is generally fastened by a belt or sash.

A kind of oven, or reverberatory furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit. Ure.

A white or colored wash for the ceiling or other plastering of a room, consisting of a mixture of clear glue, Paris white or zinc white, and water. [Also spelt kalsomine.]

See Calash.

ulbs of which are collected for food by the Indians. [Written also camas, cammas, and quamash.]

de of camel's hair or similar materials. -- Camel's-hair shawl. A name often given to a cashmere shawl. See Cashmere shawl under Cashmere.

To impregnate or wash with camphor; to camphorate. [R.] Tatler.

-- Cane mill, a mill for grinding sugar canes, for the manufacture of sugar. -- Cane trash, the crushed stalks and other refuse of sugar cane, used for fuel, etc.