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Resembling two bucklers placed side by side.

The blue buck. See Blue buck, under Blue.

r having, a very dark blue color, almost black. -- Blue blood. See under Blood. -- Blue buck (Zoöl.), a small South African antelope (Cephalophus pygmæus); also applied to a larger species (Ægoceras leucophæus); the blaubok. -- Blue cod (Zoöl.), the buffalo cod. -- Blue crab (Zoöl.), the common edible crab of the A…

In the presence of the shameless and unblushing, the young offender is ashamed to blush. Buckminster. He would stroke The head of modest and ingenuous worth, That blushed at its own praise. Cowper.

A sort of fine buckram.

A strong beer, originally made in Bavaria. [Also written buck beer.]

ot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp. [Local, U. S.] Bog bean. See Buck bean. -- Bog bumper (bump, to make a loud noise), Bog blitter, Bog bluiter, Bog jumper, the bittern. [Prov.] -- Bog butter, a hydrocarbon of butterlike consistence found in the peat bogs of Ireland. -- Bog earth (Min.), a s…

A kind of antelope. See Bush buck.

on any work, either of different material from that of the work or of the same, as upon a buckler or bridle; a stud; a knob; the central projection of a shield. See Umbilicus.

An appliance resembling a small boot furnished with straps, buckles, etc., used to correct or prevent distortions in the lower extremities of children. Dunglison.

A chamber or section of tube in which a valve works; the bucket of a lifting pump.

Buckwheat. [Local, Eng.] Halliwell.

rming two branches united at one end. -- Knee breeches, breeches coming to the knee, and buckled or fastened there; smallclothes. -- To wear the breeches, to usurp the authority of the husband; -- said of a wife. [Colloq.]

is low and requires no support (Phaseolus vulgaris, variety nanus). See Bean, 1. -- Bush buck, or Bush goat (Zoöl.), a beautiful South African antelope (Tragelaphus sylvaticus); -- so called because found mainly in wooden localities. The name is also applied to other species. -- Bush cat (Zoöl.), the serval. See Serv…

The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft.

A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes.

Of or pertaining to the roebuck.

Holy bark; the bark of the California buckthorn (Rhamnus Purshianus), used as a mild cathartic or laxative.

formerly used to punish and correct arrant scolds; -- called also a ducking stool, or trebucket. Blacktone.

ition of the brain by examination of the interior of the eye (as with an ophthalmoscope). Buck.