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noun

Buck n.

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. (Obs.)

Buck n.

The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits. Note: A male fallow deer is called a fawn in his first year; a pricket in his second; a sorel in his third; a sore in his fourth; a buck of the first head in his fifth; and a great buck in his sixth. The female of the fallow deer is termed a doe. The male of the red deer is termed a stag or hart and not a buck, and the female is called a hind.

A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy. "The leading bucks of the day."

A male Indian or negro. (Colloq. U.S.) Note: The word buck is much used in composition for the names of antelopes; as, bush buck, spring buck.

Blue buck. See under Blue.

Water buck, a South African variety of antelope (Kobus ellipsiprymnus).

Buck n. A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.

Buck saw, a saw set in a frame and used for sawing wood on a sawhorse.

Buck n. The beech tree. (Scot.)

Buck mast, the mast or fruit of the beech tree.

verb

Buck v. t. (past & past part. bucked; pres. part. bucking)

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.

(Mining) To break up or pulverize, as ores.

Buck v. t.

(Mil.) 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. "The brute that he was riding had nearly bucked him out of the saddle."

Buck v. i.

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.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... not patience to try that of the natives, so that we came back without killing anything, or having had any occasion to exercise our forbearance. The Raja's people, as soon as we left them, went about their sport after their own fashion, and brought us a fine buck antelope after breakfast. They have a bullock trained to go about the fields with them, led at a quick pace by a halter, with which the sportsman guides him, as he walks along with him by the side opposite to that facing the deer he is in pursuit of. He goes round the deer as he grazes ...

— Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official • William Sleeman

... jasmine among cultivated plants, and the various species of ash (Fraxinus), and the pretty fringe-tree (Chionanthus) (Fig. 122, A), often cultivated for its abundant white flowers. The other families are the Gentianaceae including the true gentians (Gentiana) (Fig. 122, F), the buck-bean (Menyanthes), the centauries (Erythraea and Sabbatia), and several other less familiar genera; Loganiaceae, with the pink-root (Spigelia) (Fig. 122, D), as the best-known example; Apocynaceae including the dog-bane ...

— Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany - For High Schools and Elementary College Courses • Douglas Houghton Campbell

... he looked down upon the girl delightedly. His pulse beat fast. He put his arm about her and together they entered the cave. There was a marriage but no ceremony. Just as robins mate when they have met or as the buck and doe, so faithful man and wife became ...

— The Story of Ab - A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man • Stanley Waterloo

... full of high grade so rich that the storekeeper once got five hundred dollars from the bucketful. He gave the Indian about twenty dollars' worth of grub and made him a present of two yards of bright blue ribbon, which tickled the old buck so much that in two weeks he was back with more high grade knotted in the bottom of a ...

— Casey Ryan • B. M. Bower

... signals it from the tower to stop. I been handin' out laws to engines fer goin' on thirty year, an' I never seen one yet that bust over a law that didn't come to grief. You keep on the track, Sister, an' watch the signals an' obey orders an' you'll find it pays in the end. An' now, buck up, an' don't be scared. We'll see what we can do to git ...

— Calvary Alley • Alice Hegan Rice

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