Buck (n.) Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed. |
Buck (n.) The cloth or clothes soaked or washed. |
Buck (v. t.) To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds |
Buck (v. t.) To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water. |
Buck (v. t.) To break up or pulverize, as ores. |
Buck (n.) The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits. |
Buck (n.) A gay, dashing young fellow |
Buck (n.) A male Indian or negro. |
Buck (v. i.) To copulate, as bucks and does. |
Buck (v. i.) To spring with quick plunging leaps, descending with the fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible |
Buck (v. t.) 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. |
Buck (v. t.) To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2. |
Buck (n.) A frame on which firewood is sawed |
Buck (n.) The beech tree. |
Buck-basket (n.) A basket in which clothes are carried to the wash. |
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 |
Buck-eyed (a.) Having bad or speckled eyes. |
Buck's-horn (n.) A plant with leaves branched somewhat like a buck's horn (Plantago Coronopus) |
Water buck () A large, heavy antelope (Kobus ellipsiprymnus) native of Central Africa. It frequents the banks of rivers and is a good swimmer. It has a white ring around the rump. Called also photomok, water antelope, and waterbok. |