Buck

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The beech tree.

II. Buck ·noun A male Indian or negro.

III. Buck ·vi To copulate, as bucks and does.

IV. Buck ·vt To break up or pulverize, as ores.

V. Buck ·noun The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.

VI. Buck ·vt To throw by bucking. ·see Buck, ·vi, 2.

VII. Buck ·noun A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.

VIII. Buck ·noun A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.

IX. Buck ·vt To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds;

— a process in bleaching.

X. Buck ·noun The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.

XI. Buck ·vt To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.

XII. Buck ·noun Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.

XIII. Buck ·vi 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.

XIV. Buck ·vt 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.

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