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lar opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches. Blind buckler (Naut.), a solid buckler. -- Buckler mustard (Bot.), a genus of plants (Biscutella) with small bright yellow flowers. The seed vessel on bursting resembles two bucklers or shields. -- Buckler thorn, a plant with seed ves…

Having a head like a buckler.

A bullying and violent person; a braggart; a swashbuckler. [Obs.] That flock of stout, bragging rushbucklers. Robynson (More's Utopia).

A bully or braggadocio; a swaggering, boastful fellow; a swaggerer. Milton.

A swashbuckler; a bully; a roiserer. [Obs.] Shak.

Resembling two bucklers placed side by side.

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.

Shaped like a round buckler or shield; scutate.

An old dance with swords and bucklers; a sword dance.

A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler. [Obs.] "Take down my buckler . . . and grind the pick on 't." Beau. & Fl.

ided with a pillow or pillows; having the head resting on, or as on, a pillow. Pillowedon buckler cold and hard. Sir W. Scott.

Buckler-shaped; round or nearly round.

Carrying a shield or buckler.

arried on the arm, -- formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body. See Buckler. Now put your shields before your hearts and fight, With hearts more proof than shields. Shak.

A shield or target. [Obs. or Poetic] "A buckler on a targe." Chaucer.

A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.

A rod used by conjurers, diviners, magicians, etc. Picus bore a buckler in his hand; His other waved a long divining wand. Dryden. Wand of peace (Scots Law), a wand, or staff, carried by the messenger of a court, which he breaks when deforced (that is, hindered from executing process), as a symbol of the deforcement, a…