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Worthy of reward. Sir G. Buck.

uishing mark of habitual piety to be grateful for the most common and ordinary blessings. Buckminster.

ul hardihood. Wordsworth. It is the society of numbers which gives hardihood to iniquity. Buckminster.

A stag; the male of the red deer. See the Note under Buck. Goodliest of all the forest, hart and hind. Milton.

The denuded stems or stalks of such crops as buckwheat and the cereal grains, beans, etc.; straw.

joyed without gratitude, it can not be sported with without loss, or regained by courage. Buckminster.

The roebuck in its third year. [Prov. Eng.]

themselves followers of Hermes, and often called themselves Hermetic philosophers. A. B. Buckley.

projectile. -- Horizontal water wheel, a water wheel in which the axis is vertical, the buckets or floats revolving in a horizontal plane, as in most turbines.

common in the temperate zones of both hemispheres. The native American species are called buckeyes.

An iron bucket for hoisting coal or ore. Raymond.

In California, a water wheel with radial buckets, driven by the impact of a jet.

Fig.: Impulse; incentive; vigor; force. Buckle.

By implication. Sir G. Buck.

sue, in the title-page of a book, or on any printed sheet. "That imprint of their hands." Buckle.

sense; defilement; foulness; adulteration. Profaneness, impurity, or scandal, is not wit. Buckminster.

Inauspicious [Obs.] Sir G. Buck.

ty of being i Of every species of incredulity, religious unbelief is the most irrational. Buckminster.

Incapable of being explored, searched out, or discovered. Sir G. Buck.

The act of clasping, or fastening, as with a buckle or padlock.