Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 89
Bucker (n.) (Mining) A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore.
Bucker (n.) A horse or mule that bucks.
Bucket (n.) A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids.
The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well. -- Wordsworth.
Bucket (n.) A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc.
Bucket (n.) (Mach.) One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddle wheel.
Bucket (n.) The valved piston of a lifting pump.
Bucket (n.) (Mach.) One of vanes on the rotor of a turbine.
Bucket (n.) (Mach.) A bucketfull.
Fire bucket, A bucket for carrying water to put out fires.
To kick the bucket, To die. [Low]
Bucket (n.) A roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top [syn: bucket, pail].
Bucket (n.) The quantity contained in a bucket [syn: bucket, bucketful].
Bucket (v.) Put into a bucket.
Bucket (v.) Carry in a bucket.
Bucket, () A vessel to draw water with (Isa. 40:15); used figuratively, probably, of a numerous issue (Num. 24:7).
Bucket shop () An office or a place where facilities are given for betting small sums on current prices of stocks, petroleum, etc. [Slang, U.S.] Bucketful
Bucket shop (n.) An unethical or overly aggressive brokerage firm.
Bucket shop (n.) (Formerly) A cheap saloon selling liquor by the bucket.
Buckety (n.) Paste used by weavers to dress their webs. -- Buchanan.
Compare: Horse-chestnut
Horse-chestnut, Horsechestnut (n.) (Bot.) The large nutlike seed of a species of Aesculus ({Aesculus Hippocastanum), formerly ground, and fed to horses, whence the name. The seed is not considered edible by humans.
Horse-chestnut, Horsechestnut (n.) (Bot.) The tree itself ({Aesculus hippocastanum), which was brought from Constantinople in the beginning of the sixteenth century, and is now common in the temperate zones of both hemispheres; it has palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds. The native American species is also called buckeye and conker.
Buckeye (n.) (Bot.) A name given to several American trees and shrubs of the same genus ({Aesculus) as the horse chestnut.
The Ohio buckeye, or Fetid buckeye, Is Aesculus glabra.
Red buckeye Is Aesculus Pavia.
Small buckeye Is Aesculus paviflora.
Sweet buckeye, or Yellow buckeye, Is Aesculus flava.
Buckeye (n.) A cant name for a native in Ohio. [U.S.]
Buckeye State, Ohio; -- so called because buckeye trees abound there.
Buckeye (n.) The inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnut [syn: buckeye, horse chestnut, conker].
Buckeye (n.) Tree having palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds [syn: horse chestnut, buckeye, Aesculus hippocastanum].
Buckeye (n.) A native or resident of Ohio [syn: Ohioan, Buckeye].
Buckeye, AZ -- U.S. town in Arizona
Population (2000): 6537
Housing Units (2000): 2344
Land area (2000): 145.753405 sq. miles (377.499569 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 145.753405 sq. miles (377.499569 sq. km)
FIPS code: 07940
Located within: Arizona (AZ), FIPS 04
Location: 33.436561 N, 112.593253 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 85326
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Buckeye, AZ
Buckeye
Buckeye, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 110
Housing Units (2000): 50
Land area (2000): 1.003691 sq. miles (2.599547 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.003691 sq. miles (2.599547 sq. km)
FIPS code: 09100
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 42.418274 N, 93.375870 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Buckeye, IA
Buckeye
Buck-eyed (a.) Having bad or speckled eyes.
Buckhound (n.) A hound for hunting deer.
Buckie (n.) A large spiral marine shell, esp. the common whelk. See Buccinum.
Bucking (n.) The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching; also, the liquid used.
Bucking (n.) A washing.
Bucking (n.) The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores.
Buckish (a.) Dandified; foppish.
Buckle (n.) 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.
Buckle (n.) A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal. -- Knight.
Buckle (n.) A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.
Earlocks in tight buckles on each side of a lantern face. -- W. Irving.
Lets his wig lie in buckle for a whole half year. -- Addison.
Buckle (n.) A contorted expression, as of the face. [R.]
'Gainst nature armed by gravity, His features too in buckle see. -- Churchill.
Buckled (imp. & p. p.) of Buckle.
Buckling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Buckle.
Buckle (v. t.) To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles; as, to buckle a harness.
Buckle (v. t.) To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted.
Buckle (v. t.) To prepare for action; to apply with vigor and earnestness; -- formerly, generally used reflexively, but by mid 20th century, usually used with down; -- as, the programmers buckled down and worked late hours to finish the project in time for the promised delivery date.
Cartwright buckled himself to the employment. -- Fuller.
Buckle (v. t.) To join in marriage. [Scot.] -- Sir W. Scott.
Buckle (v. i.) To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink.
Buckled with the heat of the fire like parchment. -- Pepys.
Buckle (v. i.) To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall.
Buckle (v. i.) To yield; to give way; to cease opposing. [Obs.]
The Dutch, as high as they seem, do begin to buckle. -- Pepys.
Buckle (v. i.) To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close fight; to struggle; to contend.
The bishop was as able and ready to buckle with the Lord Protector as he was with him. -- Latimer.
In single combat thou shalt buckle with me. -- Shak.
To buckle to, To bend to; to engage with zeal.
To make our sturdy humor buckle thereto. -- Barrow.
Before buckling to my winter's work. -- J. D. Forbes.
Buckle (n.) Fastener that fastens together two ends of a belt or strap; often has loose prong.
Buckle (n.) A shape distorted by twisting or folding [syn: warp, buckle].
Buckle (v.) Fasten with a buckle or buckles [syn: buckle, clasp] [ant: unbuckle].
Buckle (v.) Fold or collapse; "His knees buckled" [syn: buckle, crumple].
Buckle (v.) Bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat; "The highway buckled during the heat wave" [syn: heave, buckle, warp].
Buckler (n.) 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.
Note: In the sword and buckler play of the Middle Ages in England, the buckler was a small shield, used, not to cover the body, but to stop or parry blows.
Buckler (n.) (Zool.) One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.
Buckler (n.) (Zool.) The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites.
Buckler (n.) (Naut.) 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.
Blind buckler (Naut.), A solid buckler.
Buckler mustard (Bot.), A genus of plants ({Biscutella"> 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 vessels shaped like a buckler. See Christ's thorn.
Riding buckler (Naut.), A buckler with a hole for the passage of a cable.
Buckler (v. t.) To shield; to defend. [Obs.]
Can Oxford, that did ever fence the right, Now buckler falsehood with a pedigree? -- Shak.
Buckler (n.) Armor carried on the arm to intercept blows [syn: shield, buckler].
Buckler, () A portable shield (2 Sam. 22:31; 1 Chr. 5:18).
Buckler, () A shield surrounding the person; the targe or round form; used once figuratively (Ps. 91:4).
Buckler, () A large shield protecting the whole body (Ps. 35:2; Ezek. 23:24; 26:8).
Buckler, () A lance or spear; improperly rendered "buckler" in the Authorized Version (1 Chr. 12:8), but correctly in the Revised Version "spear".
The leather of shields required oiling (2 Sam. 1:21; Isa. 21:5), so as to prevent its being injured by moisture. Copper (= "brass") shields were also in use (1 Sam. 17:6; 1 Kings 14:27).
Those spoken of in 1 Kings 10:16, etc.; 14:26, were probably of massive metal.
The shields David had taken from his enemies were suspended in the temple as mementoes (2 Kings 11:10). (See ARMOUR, SHIELD.)
Buckler-headed (a.) Having a head like a buckler.
Buckling (a.) Wavy; curling, as hair.
Buckra (n.) A white man; -- a term used by negroes of the African coast, West Indies, etc.
Buckra (a.) White; white man's; strong; good; as, buckra yam, a white yam.
Buckram (n.) A coarse cloth of linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise.
Buckram (n.) A plant. See Ramson.
Buckram (a.) Made of buckram; as, a buckram suit.
Buckram (a.) Stiff; precise.
Buckram (v. t.) To strengthen with buckram; to make stiff.
Buck's-horn (n.) A plant with leaves branched somewhat like a buck's horn (Plantago Coronopus); also, Lobelia coronopifolia.
Buckshot (n.) A coarse leaden shot, larger than swan shot, used in hunting deer and large game.
Buckskin (n.) The skin of a buck.
Buckskin (n.) A soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin.
Buckskin (n.) A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war.
Buckskin (n.) Breeches made of buckskin.
Buckstall (n.) A toil or net to take deer.
Buckthorn (n.) A genus (Rhamnus) of shrubs or trees. The shorter branches of some species terminate in long spines or thorns. See Rhamnus.
Bucktooth (n.) Any tooth that juts out.
Buckwheat (n.) A plant (Fagopyrum esculentum) of the Polygonum family, the seed of which is used for food.
Buckwheat (n.) The triangular seed used, when ground, for griddle cakes, etc.
Bucolic (a.) 牧羊的；牧歌的；鄉下風味的 Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.
Bucolic (n.) 牧歌；田園詩；土包子 A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil. -- Dryden.
Bucolic (a.) (Used with regard to idealized country life) Idyllically rustic; "a country life of arcadian contentment"; "a pleasant bucolic scene"; "charming in its pastoral setting"; "rustic tranquility" [syn: {arcadian}, {bucolic}, {pastoral}].
Bucolic (a.) Relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle; "pastoral seminomadic people"; "pastoral land"; "a pastoral economy" [syn: {bucolic}, {pastoral}].
Bucolic (n.) A country person [syn: {peasant}, {provincial}, {bucolic}].
Bucolic (n.) A short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life [syn: {eclogue}, {bucolic}, {idyll}, {idyl}].
Compare: Pastoral
Pastoral (a.) (Of land) [Z] [B] 牧（羊）人的；牧（羊）人生活方式的；鄉村的；描寫牧人（或鄉村）生活的；田園式的；田園風光的 Used for the keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle.
‘Scattered pastoral farms.’
Pastoral (a.) Associated with country life.
‘The view was pastoral, with rolling fields and grazing sheep.’
Pastoral (a.) (Of a work of art) Portraying or evoking country life, typically in a romanticized or idealized form.
Pastoral (a.) (In the Christian Church) Concerning or appropriate to the giving of spiritual guidance.
‘Pastoral and doctrinal issues.’
‘Clergy doing pastoral work.’
Pastoral (a.) Relating to or denoting a teacher's responsibility for the general well-being of pupils or students.
‘The pastoral care of boarders.’
Pastoral (n.) [C] 田園詩，牧歌；田園畫；田園曲；田園景色 A work of literature portraying an idealized version of country life.
‘The story, though a pastoral, has an actual connection with the life of agricultural labour.’
Bucolical (a.) Bucolic.
Bucrania (n. pl. ) of Bucranium.
Bucranium (n.) A sculptured ornament, representing an ox skull adorned with wreaths, etc.
Bud (n.) A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an undeveloped branch or flower.
Bud (n.) A small protuberance on certain low forms of animals and vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or attached. See Hydra.
Budded (imp. & p. p.) of Bud.
Budding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bud.
Bud (v. i.) To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot.
Bud (v. i.) To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
Bud (v. i.) To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin.
Bud (v. t.) To graft, as a plant with another or into another, by inserting a bud from the one into an opening in the bark of the other, in order to raise, upon the budded stock, fruit different from that which it would naturally bear.
Buddha (n.) The title of an incarnation of self-abnegation, virtue, and wisdom, or a deified religious teacher of the Buddhists, esp. Gautama Siddartha or Sakya Sinha (or Muni), the founder of Buddhism.
Buddhism (n.) The religion based upon the doctrine originally taught by the Hindoo sage Gautama Siddartha, surnamed Buddha, "the awakened or enlightened," in the sixth century b. c., and adopted as a religion by the greater part of the inhabitants of Central and Eastern Asia and the Indian Islands. Buddha's teaching is believed to have been atheistic; yet it was characterized by elevated humanity and morality. It presents release from existence (a beatific enfranchisement, Nirvana) as the greatest good. Buddhists believe in transmigration of souls through all phases and forms of life. Their number was estimated in 1881 at 470,000,000.
Buddhism (n.) [ U ] 佛教 A religion that originally comes from South Asia, and teaches that personal spiritual improvement will lead to escape from human suffering.
Buddhist (n.) One who accepts the teachings of Buddhism.
Buddhist (a.) Of or pertaining to Buddha, Buddhism, or the Buddhists.
Buddhistic (a.) Same as Buddhist, a.
Budding (n.) The act or process of producing buds.
Budding (n.) (Biol.) A process of asexual reproduction, in which a new organism or cell is formed by a protrusion of a portion of the animal or vegetable organism, the bud thus formed sometimes remaining attached to the parent stalk or cell, at other times becoming free; gemmation. See Hydroidea.
Budding (n.) The act or process of ingrafting one kind of plant upon another stock by inserting a bud under the bark.
Budding (a.) Beginning to develop; "a budding genius".
Budding (n.) Reproduction of some unicellular organisms (such as yeasts) by growth and specialization followed by the separation by constriction of a part of the parent.
Buddle (n.) An apparatus, especially an inclined trough or vat, in which stamped ore is concentrated by subjecting it to the action of running water so as to wash out the lighter and less valuable portions.
Buddle (v. i.) To wash ore in a buddle.
Bude burner () A burner consisting of two or more concentric Argand burners (the inner rising above the outer) and a central tube by which oxygen gas or common air is supplied.
Bude light () A light in which high illuminating power is obtained by introducing a jet of oxygen gas or of common air into the center of a flame fed with coal gas or with oil.
Budged (imp. & p. p.) of Budge.
Budging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Budge.
Budge (v. i.) To move off; to stir; to walk away.
Budge (v.) Brisk; stirring; jocund.
Budge (n.) A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on; -- used formerly as an edging and ornament, esp. of scholastic habits.
Budge (a.) Lined with budge; hence, scholastic.
Budge (a.) Austere or stiff, like scholastics.
Budgeness (n.) Sternness; severity.
Budger (n.) One who budges.
budgerow (n.) A large and commodious, but generally cumbrous and sluggish boat, used for journeys on the Ganges.
Budget (n.) [C] 預算；預算費；生活費，經費 [（+for）]；（一）批，（一）堆；大信息量長信 [（+of）] A bag or sack with its contents; hence, a stock or store; an accumulation; as, a budget of inventions.
Budget (n.) The annual financial statement which the British chancellor of the exchequer makes in the House of Commons. It comprehends a general view of the finances of the country, with the proposed plan of taxation for the ensuing year. The term is sometimes applied to a similar statement in other countries.
Budget (n.) An estimate, often itemized, of expected income and expense for a given period in the future.
Budget (n.) A plan of operations based on such an estimate.
Budget (n.) An itemized allotment of funds, time, etc., for a given period.
Budget (n.) The total sum of money set aside or needed for a purpose.
// The construction budget.
Budget (n.) A limited stock or supply of something.
// His budget of goodwill.
Budget (n.) (Obsolete) A small bag; pouch.
Budget (a.) 低廉的，收費公道的 [B] Reasonably or cheaply priced.
// Budget dresses.
Budget (v. t.) (budgeted, budgeting) 把……編入預算；按照預算來計畫；安排，預定 To plan allotment of (funds, time, etc.).
Budget (v. t.) To deal with (specific funds) in a budget.
Budget (v. i.) (budgeted, budgeting) 編列預算 [（+for）] To subsist on or live within a budget.
Budgy (n.) Consisting of fur.
Budlet (n.) A little bud springing from a parent bud.
Buenos Aires (n.) 布宜諾斯艾利斯（西班牙語：Buenos Aires，意為「好空氣」）簡稱CABA或Capital Federal，華人常略稱為布宜諾市或布市。是阿根廷的首都和最大城市，位於拉普拉塔河（Río de la Plata，直譯：銀之河）南岸、南美洲東南岸、對岸為烏拉圭（東方）；2014年，在大布宜諾斯艾利斯地區（Gran Buenos Aires）有常住人口17,180,000[4]，是拉丁美洲第二大都會區，僅次於大聖保羅地區（2012年19,956,590人）。布宜諾斯艾利斯為拉丁美洲最歐洲化的城市。七月九日大道（La Avenida 9 de Julio）是世界最寬的馬路，有約130公尺寬（超過16車道）。有名的阿根廷探戈的發源地就在布市的博卡區（La Boca）。 2007年布宜諾斯艾利斯被評為全球第三最美的城市。is the capital and most populous city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the South American continent's southeastern coast. "Buenos aires" can be translated as "fair winds" or "good airs", but the first one was the meaning intended by the founders in the 16th century, by the use of the original name "Real de Nuestra Señora Santa María del Buen Ayre". The Greater Buenos Aires conurbation, which also includes several Buenos Aires Province districts, constitutes the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas, with a population of around 17 million. [2]
The city of Buenos Aires is neither part of Buenos Aires Province nor the Province's capital; rather, it is an autonomous district. In 1880, after decades of political infighting, Buenos Aires was federalized and removed from Buenos Aires Province. [5] The city limits were enlarged to include the towns of Belgrano and Flores; both are now neighborhoods of the city. The 1994 constitutional amendment granted the city autonomy, hence its formal name: Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires; "CABA"). Its citizens first elected a chief of government (i.e. mayor) in 1996; previously, the mayor was directly appointed by the President of the Republic.
Buenos Aires is considered an 'alpha city' by the study GaWC5. [6] Buenos Aires' quality of life was ranked 81st in the world and one of the best in Latin America in 2012, with its per capita income among the three highest in the region. [7] [8] It is the most visited city in South America, and the second-most visited city of Latin America (behind Mexico City). [9]
Buenos Aires is a top tourist destination, [10] and is known for its preserved Spanish/European-style architecture [11] and rich cultural life. [12] Buenos Aires held the 1st Pan American Games in 1951 as well as hosting two venues in the 1978 FIFA World Cup. Buenos Aires will host the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics [13] and the 2018 G20 summit. [14]
Buenos Aires is a multicultural city, being home to multiple ethnic and religious groups. Several languages are spoken in the city in addition to Spanish, contributing to its culture and the dialect spoken in the city and in some other parts of the country. This is because in the last 150 years the city, and the country in general, has been a major recipient of millions of immigrants from all over the world, making it a melting pot where several ethnic groups live together and being considered as one of the most diverse cities of Latin America. [15]
Buff (n.) （一種用水牛或黃牛皮等製的堅韌柔軟的）暗黃皮革 [U]；黃皮軍裝上衣；暗黃色 [U]；（包著皮或布的）擦拭輪（或棒等）；拋光輪 [U]；【美】【口】迷，愛好者 [C] A sort of leather, prepared from the skin of the buffalo, dressed with oil, like chamois; also, the skins of oxen, elks, and other animals, dressed in like manner. "A suit of buff." -- Shak.
Buff (n.) The color of buff; a light yellow, shading toward pink, gray, or brown.
A visage rough, Deformed, unfeatured, and a skin of buff. -- Dryden.
Buff (n.) A military coat, made of buff leather. -- Shak.
Buff (n.) (Med.) The grayish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat. See Buffy coat, under Buffy, a.
Buff (n.) (Mech.) A wheel covered with buff leather, and used in polishing cutlery, spoons, etc.