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r, for deadening the jar caused by the collision of bodies; as, a buffer at the end of a railroad car.

The head of a buffer, which recieves the concussion, in railroad carriages.

A counter for refreshments; a restaurant at a railroad station, or place of public gathering.

A light one horse two-wheeled vehicle. [Eng.] Villebeck prevailed upon Flora to drive with him to the race in a buggy. Beaconsfield.

uniting materials into a regular structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise. Nor aught availed him now To have built in heaven high towers. Milton.

A genus of land snails having an elongated spiral shell, often of large size. The species are numerous ingabundant in tropical America.

To endeavor to raise the market price of; as, to bull railroad bonds; to bull stocks; to bull Lake Shore; to endeavor to raise prices in; as, to bull the market. See 1st Bull, n., 4.

A small round cloud, with a ruddy center, supposed by sailors to portend a storm.

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

The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard. Totten.

One of the ropes toggled to the footrope of a sail, used to haul up to the yard the body of the sail when taking it in. Totten.

[L. onus probandi] (Law), the duty of proving a particular position in a court of law, a failure in the performance of which duty calls for judgment against the party on whom the duty is imposed.

A swallow-tailed flag; a distinguishing pen

officer who directs and lays out the meres or boundaries for the workmen; -- called also bailiff, and barmaster. [Eng.]

A mixture of shot, nails, stones, pieces of old iron, etc., fired from a cannon at short range, in an emergency. [R.]

The tail, or brush, of a fox. To beat about the bush, to approach anything in a round-about manner, instead of coming directly to it; -- a metaphor taken from hunting. -- Bush bean (Bot.), a variety of bean which is low and requires no support (Phaseolus vulgaris, variety nanus). See Bean, 1. -- Bush buck, or Bush go…

A tailor's assistant for repairing garments; -- called also busheler. [Local, U.S.]

herly murder." D. Webster. What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly, This deadly quarrel daily doth beget! Shak.

me bound; the end. Here is my journey's end, here my butt And very sea mark of my utmost sail. Shak.

A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door.