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A striking with the hand.

See Buffer, 1.

The act of constructing, erecting, or establishing. Hence it is that the building of our Sion rises no faster. Bp. Hall.

A barbarous sport, of great antiquity, in which men torment, and fight with, a bull or bulls in an arena, for public amusement, -- still popular in Spain. -- Bull"fight`er (, n.

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

Clumsily; awkwardly.

the genus Emberiza, or of an allied genus, related to the finches and sparrows (family Fringillidæ).

A thin woolen stuff, used chiefly for flags, colors, and ships' signals.

That burns; being on fire; excessively hot; fiery.

A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.

The ground or place for burying the dead; burial place.

Fighting in the bush, or from behind bushes, trees, or thickets.

The operation of fitting bushes, or linings, into holes or places where wear is to be received, or friction diminished, as pivot holes, etc.

Traveling, or working a way, through bushes; pulling by the bushes, as in hauling a boat along the bushy margin of a stream. [U.S.] T. Flint.

Agitated; noisy; tumultuous; characterized by confused activity; as, a bustling crowd. "A bustling wharf." Hawthorne.

The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly. That dreadful butchering of one another. Addison.

See 1st Butt, 10.

Apt to let things fall, or to let them slip away; slippery; careless.

An abuttal; a boundary. Without buttings or boundings on any side. Bp. Beveridge.

he joints which the struts and braces form with the truss posts; -- sometimes called abutting joint.