Basket |
A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven. |
n. |
Basket |
The contents of a basket; as much as a basket contains; as, a basket of peaches. |
n. |
Basket |
The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital. |
n. |
Basket |
The two back seats facing one another on the outside of a stagecoach. |
n. |
Basket |
To put into a basket. |
v. t. |
Buck |
Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed. |
n. |
Buck |
The cloth or clothes soaked or washed. |
n. |
Buck |
To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching. |
v. t. |
Buck |
To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water. |
v. t. |
Buck |
To break up or pulverize, as ores. |
v. t. |
Buck |
The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits. |
n. |
Buck |
A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy. |
n. |
Buck |
A male Indian or negro. |
n. |
Buck |
To copulate, as bucks and does. |
v. i. |
Buck |
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. |
v. i. |
Buck |
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. |
v. t. |
Buck |
To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2. |
v. t. |
Buck |
A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck. |
n. |
Buck |
The beech tree. |
n. |
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; marsh trefoil; -- called also bog bean. |
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