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one, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset. Her long slit sleeves, stiff busk, puff verdingall, Is all that makes her thus angelical. Marston.

Wearing a busk. Pollok.

A small bush; also, a sprig or bouquet. [Obs.] Spenser.

e foot, coming some distance up the leg. The hunted red deer's undressed hide Their hairy buskins well supplied. Sir W. Scott.

Wearing buskins. Her buskined virgins traced the dewy lawn. Pope.

See Bosky, and 1st Bush, n. Shak.

A buskin or half-boot. [Written also brodequin.] [Obs.]

d and dressed), and hence, any leather handsomely finished, colored, gilded, or the like. Buskins he wore of costliest cordwain. Spenser.

A buskin anciently used by tragic actors on the stage; hence, tragedy in general. The moment had arrived when it was thought that the mask and the cothurn might be assumed with effect. Motley.

To bind up; to inclose. Legs . . . embaled in golden buskins. Spenser.

y twine. Spenser. An precious stones, in studs of gold enchased, The shaggy velvet of his buskins graced. Mickle.

High boots or buskins; in Scotland, short spatterdashes or riding trousers, worn over the other clothing.

Striped. [Obs.] "[Buskins] . . . paled part per part." Spenser.

of comedy, of the comic drams, as distinguished from tragedy, which is symbolized by the buskin. Great Fletcher never treads in buskin here, Nor greater Jonson dares in socks appear. Dryden.

by a pressure which tends to force them apart, as in the leg of a steam boiler. -- Stay busk, a stiff piece of wood, steel, or whalebone, for the front support of a woman's stays. Cf. Busk. -- Stay rod, a rod which acts as a stay, particularly in a steam boiler.