Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BUCK'BEAN, n.

This is properly Bog-bean, which see.

BUCK'ED, pp.

Soaked in lye. – Ash.

BUCK'ET, n. [Sax. buc; Fr. baquet; Ir. buicead; Sw. buc; Dan. bak.]

1. The vessel in which water is drawn out of a well; it is nearly in the form of a pail.
2. A vessel or pail used at sea to draw water up at the side of a ship, for washing the decks, &c. – Mar. Dict.
3. A vessel made of leather, nearly in the form of a pail, but narrower and deeper, used to convey water by hand for extinguishing fires; a fire bucket.

BUCK'ET-FULL, n.

As much as a bucket will hold.

BUCK'EYE, n.

A tree, the Esculus flava, indigenous in the western States. Hence the name given to an inhabitant of Ohio.

BUCK'ING, n.

The act or process of soaking cloth in lye for bleaching; also, the lye or liquor; a washing. – Encyc. Ash.

BUCK'ING, ppr.

Soaking in lye, in the process of bleaching; washing.

BUCK'ING-STOOL, n.

A washing block.

BUCK'LE, n. [Fr. boucle, a buckle, a ring, a knocker; boucler, to curl, to ring, to buckle; Ir. bucla; Arm. boucl. In Sp. bucle is hair curled. In W. baçu, baçellu, and baglu signify, to bend, hook, or grapple. Sax. bugan, to bow.]

1. An instrument made of some kind of metal, for fastening together certain parts of dress, as the straps of shoes, knee-bands, &c., or other straps and bands, as in a harness. The forms are various, but it consists of a ring or rim with a chape and tongue.
2. A curl, or a state of being curled or crisped, as hair. – Spectator.
3. In coats of arms, a token of the surety, faith, and service of the bearer. – Encyc.

BUCK'LE, v.i.

To bend; to bow; as, to buckle under life. – Shak. To buckle to, to bend to; to apply with vigor; to engage with zeal. – Locke. To buckle in, to close in; to embrace or seize the body, as in a scuffle; a popular use in America. To buckle with, to encounter with embrace; to join in close combat. – Dryden.

BUCK'LE, v.t.

1. To fasten with a buckle, or buckles.
2. To prepare for action; a metaphor, taken from buckling on armor. – Spenser.
3. To join in battle. – Hayward.
4. To confine or limit. A span buckles in his sum of age. – Shak.

BUCK'LED, pp.

Fastened with a buckle.

BUCK'LER, n. [W. bwceled; Fr. bouclier; Ir. buicleir.]

A kind of shields or piece of defensive armor, anciently used in war. It was composed of wood, or wicker woven together, covered with skin or leather, fortified with plates of brass or other metal, and worn on the left arm. On the middle was an umbo, boss, or prominence, very useful in causing stones and darts to glance off. The buckler often was four feet bong, and covered the whole body. – Encyc.

BUCK'LER, v.t.

To support; to defend. [Not used.] – Shak.

BUCK'LER-HEAD-ED, a.

Having a head like a buckler.

BUCK'LER-THORN, n.

Christ's thorn. – Johnson.

BUCK'LING, n.

A fastening by a buckle.

BUCK'LING, ppr.

Fastening with a buckle.

BUCK'MAST, n. [buck, that is, beech, and mast.]

The mast or fruit of the beech-tree. – Johnson.

BUCK'RAM, a.

Stiff; precise. – Fulke.

BUCK'RAM, n. [Fr. bougran; It. bucherame; qu. from It. bucare, to make holes.]

A coarse linen cloth, stiffened with glue, used in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover cloths, and other merchandise. – Encyc.

BUCK'RAMS, n.

The same as wild garlic. – Johnson.

BUCKS'HORN, n. [buck and horn.]

A plant, a species of Plantago, or plantain, called Coronopus. The warted buckshorn, is a species of Cochlearia, or scurvy grass. – Fam. of Plants.

BUCK'SKIN, n.

The skin of a buck. As an adj. made of leather prepared from the skin of a buck. – Ash.

BUCK'STALL, n. [buck and stall.]

A toil or net to take deer. – Encyc.