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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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"Buck" Quotes from Famous Books

... mind Lamech goes out hunting, with bow and arrow, and shoots Cain, accidentally, in a bush. When Cain falls, Lamech appeals to his servant, to know what is it that he has shot. The servant declares that it is "hairy, rough, ugly, and a buck-goat of the night." Cain, however, discovers himself before he dies. There is something rudely dreary and graphic about his description of his loneliness, bare as it is of any recommendation ...

— Rambles Beyond Railways; - or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot • Wilkie Collins

... ladies gay, The mist has left the mountain gray, Springlets in the dawn are steaming, Diamonds on the brake are gleaming: And foresters have busy been To track the buck in thicket green; Now we come to chant our lay, "Waken, ...

— The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. - The Songs of Scotland of the past half century • Various

... monstrous congenital hypertrophy of the superior lip in an infant of eight months. Buck successfully treated by surgical operations a case of congenital hypertrophy of the under lip, and Detmold mentions a similar result in a young lady with hypertrophy of the lip and lower part of the nose. Murray reports an undescribed ...

— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould

... most unfortunate with animals. He was hated by them all. When he went near horses they would kick, buck and neigh as if a wolf had been at hand; mules stampeded at his sight; cats bolted as if he were about to beat them; and camels were restless and made most fearful noises of disapproval and distress at his approach. When he tried ...

— Across Coveted Lands - or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland • Arnold Henry Savage Landor

... cole mawnin'!" I looked at the darkey in bitterness of heart, and couldn't help thinking that it was all-fired mean, when a poor little sick soldier was not allowed to buy a drink of whisky, while a great big buck nigger roustabout had it handed out to him with cheerfulness and alacrity. But the orders forbidding the sale of intoxicating liquors to soldiers were all right, and an imperative military necessity. If the men had been allowed unlimited access to whisky, ...

— The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 • Leander Stillwell

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