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Buck
·noun The beech tree.
II. Buck ·noun A male Indian or negro.
III. Buck ·vi To copulate, as bucks a...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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buck
A blind horse; also a gay debauchee.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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buck
I.
v.
Used «intransitively of a horse, toleap vertically from the ground, drawing the feet togethe...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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buck
A frame or stand of peculiar construction on which wood is sawn for fuel. In New England it is calle...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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buck
1) of a cart or waggon, the body. Hamp.
2) the breast. Suss.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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Eye
·noun Tinge; shade of color.
II. Eye ·noun A brood; as, an eye of pheasants.
III. Eye ·noun The ho...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Eye
(Heb. ain, meaning "flowing"), applied (1) to a fountain, frequently; (2) to colour (Num. 11:7; R.V....
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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eye
It's all my eye and Betty Martin. It's all nonsense, all mere stuff.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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eye
The circular loop of a shroud or stay where it goes over the mast.
♦ To eye, to observe minutely.
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Eye
(The practice of painting the eyelids to make the eyes look large, lustrous and languishing is often...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Buck bean
·- A plant (Menyanthes trifoliata) which grows in moist and boggy places, having racemes of white or...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Buck fever
·add. ·- Intense excitement at the sight of deer or other game, such as often unnerves a novice in h...
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Buck-basket
·noun A basket in which clothes are carried to the wash.
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Buck-eyed
·adj Having bad or speckled eyes.
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Water buck
·- A large, heavy antelope (Kobus ellipsiprymnus) native of Central Africa. It frequents the banks o...
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buck bail
Bail given by a sharper for one of the gang.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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buck fitch
A lecherous old fellow.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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buck-jumper
See bucker
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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buck-jumping
Bucking
verbal nouns.
1855. W. Howitt, `Two Years in Victoria,' vol. i. p. 43:
«At length it shoo...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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buck-shot
n.
a settlers' term for ageological formation. See quotation.
1851. `The Australasian Quarterly,' ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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haw-buck
A term used by the farmers in driving their oxen; and hence often applied to a rough and unpolished ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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buck, to
To wash a sail.
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buck-weel
A bow-net for fish.
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Bird's-eye
·adj Marked with spots resembling bird's eyes; as, bird's-eye diaper; bird's-eye maple.
II. Bird's-...
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Blue-eye
·noun The blue-cheeked honeysucker of Australia.
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Bull's-eye
·noun The center of a target.
II. Bull's-eye ·noun A small and thick old-fashioned watch.
III. Bul...
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Bullock's-eye
·noun ·see Bull's-eye, 3.
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Cat's-eye
·noun A variety of quartz or chalcedony, exhibiting opalescent reflections from within, like the eye...
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Cross-eye
·noun ·see <<Strabismus>>.
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Dead-eye
·noun A round, flattish, wooden block, encircled by a rope, or an iron band, and pierced with three ...
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Evil eye
·- ·see Evil eye under Evil, ·adj.
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Eye opener
·add. ·- That which makes the eyes open, as startling news or occurrence, or (U. S. Slang), a drink ...
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Eye-minded
·add. ·adj Having one's mental imagery prevailingly of the visual type; having one's thoughts and me...
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Eye-saint
·noun An object of interest to the eye; one worshiped with the eyes.
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Eye-splice
·noun A splice formed by bending a rope's end back, and fastening it into the rope, forming a loop o...
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Eye-spot
·noun An eyelike spot of color.
II. Eye-spot ·noun A simple visual organ found in many invertebrate...
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Eye-spotted
·adj Marked with spots like eyes.
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Ferret-eye
·noun The spur-winged goose;
— so called from the red circle around the eyes.
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Goggle-eye
·noun The <<Goggler>>.
II. Goggle-eye ·noun One of two or more species of American fresh-water fish...
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Golden-eye
·noun A duck (Glaucionetta clangula), found in Northern Europe, Asia, and America. The American vari...
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Heddle-eye
·noun The eye or loop formed in each heddle to receive a warp thread.
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Moon-eye
·noun The <<Cisco>>.
II. Moon-eye ·noun A eye affected by the moon; also, a disease in the eye of a...
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Sheep's-eye
·noun A modest, diffident look; a loving glance;
— commonly in the plural.
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Squint-eye
·noun An eye that squints.
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Tiger-eye
·noun A siliceous stone of a yellow color and chatoyant luster, obtained in South Africa and much us...
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Wall-eye
·noun The alewife;
— called also wall-eyed herring.
II. Wall-eye ·noun A California surf fish (Hol...
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White-eye
·noun Any one of several species of small Old World singing of the genus Zosterops, as Zosterops pal...
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Evil eye
(Prov. 23:6), figuratively, the envious or covetous. (Comp. Deut. 15:9; Matt. 20:15.)
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Easton's Bible Dictionary
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black eye
We gave the bottle a black eye, i.e. drank it almost up. He cannot say black is the white of my eye;...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bull's eye
A crown-piece.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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to cutty-eye
To look out of the corners of one's eyes, to leer, to look askance. The cull cutty-eyed at us; the f...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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eye-sore
A disagreeable object. It will be an eye-sore as long as she lives, said by a limn whose wife was cu...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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jew's eye
That's worth a Jew's eye; a pleasant or agreeable sight: a saying taken from Shakespeare.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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blue-eye
n.
a bird name. The Blue facedHoney-eater (q.v.).
1848. J. Gould, `Birds of Australia,' vol. iv. p...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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bull's-eye
n.
a fish of New South Wales, Priacanthus macracanthus, Cuv.and Val. Priacanthus, says Guenther, is...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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golden-eye
n.
the bird Certhialunulatu, Shaw; now called Melithreptus lunulatus,Shaw, and classed as White-nap...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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ring-eye
n.
one of the many names for thebirds of the genus Zosterops (q.v.).
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silver-eye
n.
a bird-name. Same as Wax-eye, White-eye, or Blight-bird (q.v.).
1888. W. L. Buller, `Birds of N...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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wax-eye
i.q. one of the many names for the birdcalled Silver-Eye, White-Eye, Blight-Bird,etc. See Zosterops....
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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white-eye
n.
another name for the bird calledvariously Silver-Eye, Wax-Eye, Blight-Bird, etc., Zosterops (q.v...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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cross-eye
That sort of squint, by which both the eyes turn towards the nose, so that the rays, in passing to t...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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eye-breen
the eye-brows. Lane. F.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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artificial eye
An eye worked in the end of rope, which is neater but not so strong as a spliced eye.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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bull's-eye
A sort of block without a sheave, for a rope to reeve through; it is grooved for stropping. Also, th...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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dead-eye
, or dead man's eye.
A sort of round flattish wooden block, or oblate piece of elm, encircled, and...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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elliot-eye
The Elliot-eye, introduced by the Hon. Admiral Elliot, secretary of the Admiralty, is an eye worked ...
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eye-bolts
Those which have an eye or opening in one end, for hooking tackles to, or fastening ropes.
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eye-shot
Within sight.
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eye-sore
Any disagreeable object.
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eye-splice
(See splice.) A kind of splice made by turning the end of a rope back, and the strands passed throug...
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flemish eye
A kind of eye-splice, in which the ends are scraped down, tapered, passed oppositely, marled, and se...
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gimlet-eye
A penetrating gaze, which sees through a deal plank.
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made-eye
Synonymous with Flemish eye (which see).
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ox-eye
A small cloud, or weather-gall, seen on the coast of Africa, which presages a severe storm. It appea...
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weather-eye
"Keep your weather-eye open," be on your guard; look out for squalls.
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to run a buck
To poll a bad vote at an election.--IRISH TERM.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Bird's-eye maple
·- ·see under <<Maple>>.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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bung your eye
Drink a dram; strictly speaking, to drink till one's eye is bunged up or closed.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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cock your eye
Shut one eye: thus translated into apothecaries Latin.--Gallus tuus ego.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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finger in eye
To put finger in eye; to weep: commonly applied to women. The more you cry the less you'll p-ss; a c...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bull's-eye cringle
A piece of wood in the form of a ring, which answers the purpose of an iron thimble; it is seldom us...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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dead man's eye
See dead-eye
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hearty as a buck
A hunter's phrase, now in very common use.
Well, how d'ye do, any how?
So, so, middlin'. I'm heart...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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drop in the eye
Almost drunk.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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larry dugan's eye water
Blacking: Larry Dugan was a famous shoe-black at Dublin.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bird of the eye
the pupil or sight of the eye. Suff.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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eye of an anchor
The hole in the shank wherein the ring is fixed.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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eye of a stay
That part of a stay which is formed into a sort of collar to go round the mast-head; the eye and mou...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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eye of the wind
The direction to windward from whence it blows. (See wind's-eye.)
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a buck of the first head
One who in debauchery surpasses the rest of his companions, a blood or choice spirit. There are in L...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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eye of a block-strop
That part by which it is fastened or suspended to any particular place upon the sails, masts, or rig...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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half an eye, seeing with
Discerning instantly and clearly.
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score of a dead eye
The groove round which the rope passes.
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black's the white of my eye
When Jack avers that no one can say this or that of him. It is an indignant expression of innocence ...
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turn in a dead-eye or heart, to
To seize the end of a shroud or stay, &c., securely round it.
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