| buck | 1. The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits. A male fallow deer is called a fawn in his first year; a pricket in his second; a sorel in his third; a sore in his fourth; a buck of the first head in his fifth; and a great buck in his sixth. The female of the fallow deer is termed a doe. The male of the red deer is termed a stag or hart and not a buck, and the female is called a hind. 2. A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy. "The leading bucks of the day." (Thackeray) 3. A male Indian or negro. The word buck is much used in composition for the names of antelopes; as, bush buck, spring buck. Blue buck. See Blue. Water buck, a South African variety of antelope (Kobus ellipsiprymnus). Origin: OE. Buk, bucke, AS. Bucca, bua, he-goat; akin to D. Bok, OHG. Pocch, G. Bock, Ir. Boc, W. Bwch, Corn. Byk; cf. Zend bza, Skr. Bukka. 256. Cf. Butcher. The beech tree. Buck mast, the mast or fruit of the beech tree. A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck. Buck saw, a saw set in a frame and used for sawing wood on a sawhorse. 1. To copulate, as bucks and does. 2. 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. 1. To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; a process in bleaching. 2. To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water. 3. <chemical> To break up or pulverize, as ores. Origin: OE. Bouken; akin to LG. Buken, Dan. Byge, Sw. Byka, G. Bauchen, beuchen; cf. OF. Buer. Cf. The preceding noun. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| buck bean | <botany> A plant (Menyanthes trifoliata) which grows in moist and boggy places, having racems of white or reddish flowers and intensely bitter leaves, sometimes used in medicine; marsh trefoil. Synonym: bogbean, menyanthes. (08 Mar 2000) |
| buck tooth | An anterior tooth in labioversion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Buck's extension | Apparatus for applying longitudinal skin traction on the leg through contact between the skin and adhesive tape; friction between the tape and skin permits application of force, which is applied through a cord over a pulley, suspending a weight; elevation of the foot of the bed allows the body to act as a counterweight. Synonym: Buck's traction. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Buck's fascia | A deep layer which surrounds the three erectile bodies of the penis. Synonym: Buck's fascia, fascia penis profunda. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Buck's traction | Apparatus for applying longitudinal skin traction on the leg through contact between the skin and adhesive tape; friction between the tape and skin permits application of force, which is applied through a cord over a pulley, suspending a weight; elevation of the foot of the bed allows the body to act as a counterweight. Synonym: Buck's traction. (05 Mar 2000) |
| buck's-horn | <botany> A plant with leaves branched somewhat like a buck's horn (Plantago Coronopus); also, Lobelia coronopifolia. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Buck, Gurdon | <person> U.S. Surgeon, 1807-1877. See: Buck's extension, Buck's fascia, Buck's traction. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bucked shins | A condition seen most frequently in young thoroughbred horses during early training, and characterised by periostitis of the dorsal surface of the third metacarpal or metatarsal bone. Synonym: bucked shins. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bucker | <chemical> 1. One who bucks ore. 2. A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bucket-handle incision | A bilateral subcostal abdominal incision. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bucket-handle tear | A tear in the central part of a semilunar cartilage. (05 Mar 2000) |
| buckeye | 1. <botany> A name given to several American trees and shrubs of the same genus (aesculus) as the horse chestnut. The Ohio buckeye, or Fetid buckeye, is aesculus glabra. Red buckeye is ae. Pavia. Small buckeye is ae. Paviflora. Sweet buckeye, or Yellow buckeye, is ae. Flava. 2. A cant name for a native in Ohio. Buckeye State, Ohio; so called because buckeye trees abound there. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| buckie | <zoology> A large spiral marine shell, especially. The common whelk. See Buccinum. Deil's buckie, a perverse, refractory youngster. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bucking | 1. The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching; also, the liquid used. 2. A washing. 3. The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores. <chemical> Bucking iron, a large circular boiler, or kier, used in bleaching. Bucking stool, a washing block. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |