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or pertaining to a deluge, esp. to the Noachian deluge; diluvial; as, of diluvian origin. Buckland.

were only disciplinary. Bp. Ferne. The evils of the . . . are disciplinary and remedial. Buckminster.

. 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.

ommendation of the new religion to the wits and philosophers of that disputations period. Buckminster. -- Dis`pu*ta"tious*ly, adv. -- Dis`pu*ta"tious*ness, n.

gination, when completely distempered, is the most incurable of all disordered faculties. Buckminster.

r or antelope; specifically, the female of the fallow deer, of which the male is called a buck. Also applied to the female of other animals, as the rabbit. See the Note under Buck.

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.

ent. [Obs.] To let drive, to aim a blow; to strike with force; to attack. "Four rogues in buckram let drive at me." Shak.

a note. They stand at a distance, dwelling on his looks and language, fixed in amazement. Buckminster.

A boxlike structure with funnel-shaped traps for catching eels; an eelbuck.

A mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain with a series of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loft for storage.

An orange-red crystalline substance, C15H10O5, obtained from the buckthorn, rhubarb, etc., and regarded as a derivative of anthraquinone; -- so called from a species of rhubarb (Rheum emodei).

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

To render equivocal or ambiguous. He equivocated his vow by a mental reservation. Sir G. Buck.

ass a ditch or mount a rampart. Sin enters, not by escalade, but by cunning or treachery. Buckminster.

The blue buck.

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

. Capable of being exculpated; deserving exculpation. Sir G. Buck.

One who, or that which, exterminates. Buckle.