Vocabulary : Buckeye to Buckler-headed

Buckeye : A name given to several American trees and shrubs of the same genus (Aesculus) as the horse chestnut. ;; A cant name for a native in Ohio.
Buck-eyed : Having bad or speckled eyes.
Buckhound : A hound for hunting deer.
Buckie : A large spiral marine shell, esp. the common whelk. See Buccinum.
Bucking : of Buck ;; The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching; also, the liquid used. ;; A washing. ;; The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores.

Buckish : Dandified; foppish.
Buckle : A device, usually of metal, consisting of a frame with one more movable tongues or catches, used for fastening things together, as parts of dress or harness, by means of a strap passing through the frame and pierced by the tongue. ;; A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal. ;; A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled. ;; A contorted expression, as of the face. ;; To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles; as, to buckle a harness. ;; To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted. ;; To prepare for action; to apply with vigor and earnestness; -- generally used reflexively. ;; To join in marriage. ;; To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink. ;; To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall. ;; To yield; to give way; to cease opposing. ;; To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close fight; to struggle; to contend.
Buckled : of Buckle
Buckler : A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, worn on one of the arms (usually the left) for protecting the front of the body. ;; One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes. ;; The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites. ;; A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches. ;; To shield; to defend.
Buckler-headed : Having a head like a buckler.

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