Bugbane
Bug″bane′ (�), n.(Bot.) A perennial white-flowered herb of the order Ranunculaceæ and genus Cimiciguga; bugwort. There are several species.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Bugbear (2)
Bug″bear′ (�), n. Same as Bugaboo. — a. Causing needless fright. Locke.
Bugbear (3)
Bug″bear′, v. t. To alarm with idle phantoms.
Bugfish
Bug″fish′ (�), n.(Zoöl.) The menhaden.
Bugger
Bug″ger (�), n. [F. bougre, fr. LL. Bulgarus, a Bulgarian, and also a heretic; because the inhabitants of Bulgaria were infected with heresy. Those guilty of the crime of bugger...
Buggery
Bug″ger‐y (�), n. [OF. bougrerie, bogrerie, heresy. See Bugger.] Unnatural sexual intercourse; sodomy.
Bugginess
Bug″gi‐ness (�), n. [From Buggy, a.] The state of being infested with bugs.
Buggy
Bug″gy (�), a. [From Bug.] Infested or abounding with bugs.
Buggy (2)
Bug″gy, n.; pl.Buggies. 1. A light one horse two-wheeled vehicle.Villebeck prevailed upon Flora to drive with him to the race in a buggy.Beaconsfield.2. A light, four-wheeled ve...
Bugle
Bu″gle (�), n. [OE. bugle buffalo, buffalo's horn, OF. bugle, fr. L. buculus a young bullock, steer, dim. of bos ox. See Cow the animal.] A sort of wild ox; a buffalo. E. Phillips.
Bugle (2)
Bu″gle, n. [See Bugle a wild ox.] 1. A horn used by hunters.2. (Mus.) A copper instrument of the horn quality of tone, shorter and more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed...
Bugle (3)
Bu″gle, n. [LL. bugulus a woman's ornament: cf. G. bügel a bent piece of metal or wood, fr. the same root as G. biegen to bend, E. bow to bend.] An elongated glass bead, of vari...
Bugle (4)
Bu″gle, a. [From Bugle a bead.] Jet black. “Bugle eyeballs.” Shak.
Bugle (5)
Bu″gle, n. [F. bugle; cf. It. bugola, L. bugillo.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Ajuga of the Mint family, a native of the Old World.Yellow bugle, the Ajuga chamæpitys.
Bugle horn
Bu″gle horn′ (�). 1. A bugle.One blast upon his bugle hornWere worth a thousand men.Sir W. Scott.2. A drinking vessel made of horn.And drinketh of his bugle horn the wine.Chaucer.
Bugled
Bu″gled (�), a. Ornamented with bugles.
Bugler
Bu″gler (�), n. One who plays on a bugle.
Bugleweed
Bu″gle‐weed′ (�), n.(Bot.) A plant of the Mint family and genus Lycopus; esp. L. Virginicus, which has mild narcotic and astringent properties, and is sometimes used as a remedy...
Bugloss
Bu″gloss (�), n.; pl.Buglosses (�). [F. buglosse, L. buglossa, buglossus, fr. Gr. � oxtongue � ox + � tongue.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Anchusa, and especially the A. officin...
Bugwort
Bug″wort′ (�), n.(Bot.) Bugbane.
Buhl
{ Buhl (�), Buhl″work } (�), n. [From A. Ch. Boule, a French carver in wood.] Decorative woodwork in which tortoise shell, yellow metal, white metal, etc., are inlaid, forming s...
Buhlbuhl
Buhl″buhl (�), n.(Zoöl.) See Bulbul.
Buhrstone
Buhr″stone′ (�), n. [OE. bur a whetstone for scythes.] (Min.) A cellular, flinty rock, used for mill stones. [Written also burrstone.]
Build
Build (�), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Built (�); p. pr. & vb. n.Building. The regular imp. & p. p.Builded is antiquated.] [OE. bulden, bilden, AS. byldan to build, fr. bold house; cf. I...
Build (2)
Build (�), v. i. 1. To exercise the art, or practice the business, of building.2. To rest or depend, as on a foundation; to ground one's self or one's hopes or opinions upon som...
Build (3)
Build, n. Form or mode of construction; general figure; make; as, the build of a ship.
Builder
Build″er (�), n. One who builds; one whose occupation is to build, as a carpenter, a shipwright, or a mason.In the practice of civil architecture, the builder comes between the ...