Vocabulary : Buccinator to Buck bean
Buccinator : A muscle of the cheek; -- so called from its use in blowing wind instruments.
Buccinoid : Resembling the genus Buccinum, or pertaining to the Buccinidae, a family of marine univalve shells. See Whelk, and Prosobranchiata.
Buccinum : A genus of large univalve mollusks abundant in the arctic seas. It includes the common whelk (B. undatum).
Bucentaur : A fabulous monster, half ox, half man. ;; The state barge of Venice, used by the doge in the ceremony of espousing the Adriatic.
Bucephalus : The celebrated war horse of Alexander the Great. ;; Hence, any riding horse.
Buceros : A genus of large perching birds; the hornbills.
Bucholzite : Same as Fibrolite.
Buchu : A South African shrub (Barosma) with small leaves that are dotted with oil glands; also, the leaves themselves, which are used in medicine for diseases of the urinary organs, etc. Several species furnish the leaves.
Buck : Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed. ;; The cloth or clothes soaked or washed. ;; To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching. ;; To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water. ;; To break up or pulverize, as ores. ;; The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits. ;; A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy. ;; To copulate, as bucks and does. ;; To spring with quick plunging leaps, descending with the fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; -- said of a vicious horse or mule. ;; To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees. ;; To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2. ;; A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck. ;; The beech tree.
Buck bean : A plant (Menyanthes trifoliata) which grows in moist and boggy places, having racemes of white or reddish flowers and intensely bitter leaves, sometimes used in medicine; marsh trefoil; -- called also bog bean.
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