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A bugbear; anything which terrifies. [Obs.] Sir, spare your threats: The bug which you would fright me with I seek. Shak.

excite needless fear; also, something really dangerous, used to frighten children, etc. "Bugaboos to fright ye." Lloyd. But, to the world no bugbear is so great As want of figure and a small estate. Pope. The bugaboo of the liberals is the church pray. S. B. Griffin. The great bugaboo of the birds is the owl. J. Burro…

A perennial white-flowered herb of the order Ranunculaceæ and genus Cimiciguga; bugwort. There are several species.

Same as Bugaboo. -- a.

The menhaden. [U.S.]

One guilty of buggery or unnatural vice; a sodomite.

Unnatural sexual intercourse; sodomy.

The state of being infested with bugs.

Infested or abounding with bugs.

ands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle.

A bugle. One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men. Sir W. Scott.

Ornamented with bugles.

One who plays on a bugle.

A plant of the Mint family and genus Lycopus; esp. L. Virginicus, which has mild narcotic and astringent properties, and is sometimes used as a remedy for hemorrhage.

nchusa, and especially the A. officinalis, sometimes called alkanet; oxtongue. Small wild bugloss, the Asperugo procumbens and the Lycopsis arvensis. -- Viper's bugloss, a species of Echium.

Bugbane.

Of the nature of, or resembling, the white of the eye, or of an egg; albuminous; -- a term applied to textures, humors, etc., which are perfectly white.

Same as Leucoma.

A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.

A weevil or curculio of various species, as the corn weevil. See Curculio.