too common, and too weighty for its current value, was often rejected. While these piracies were committed in the southern ocean, the northern was overrun in a similar manner by Gramont, a native of Paris, who had distinguished himself in a military capacity in Europe; but his passion for wine, gaming, and women, had dissipated his fortune, and obliged him to join the pirates. He was polite, generous, and eloquent; had a sound judgment, and soon rose to be considered as the chief of the French buccaniers. Under his command they embarked in 1685 to attack Campeachy. They landed without opposition. But at some distance from the coast they were attacked by 800 Spaniards, who were beaten and pursued to the town; which both parties entered at the same time. The cannon found was immediately levelled against the citadel. As it had very little effect, they were contriving some stratagem to enable them to become masters of the place, when intelligence was brought that it was abandoned. There remained in it only a gunner, an Englishman and an officer of courage, who chose rather to expose himself to the greatest extremities, than basely fly. On the fall of the place the commander of the buccaniers received him with distinction, and gave him his liberty and effects, with some valuable presents. The conquerors of Campeachy spent two months in plundering the environs of the city, from twelve to fifteen leagues round. When all the treasure they had collected was deposited in the ships, a proposal was made to the governor of the province, who still kept the field with 900 men, to ransom his capital. His refusal determined them to burn it, and demolish the citadel. In 1697 buccaniers, to the number of 1200, were induced to join a squadron of seven ships that sailed from Europe under the command of Pointis, to attack the famous city of Carthagena. This was certainly one of the most difficult enterprises that could be attempted in the New World. The situation of the port, the strength of the place, the badness of the climate, were obstacles that seemed insurmountable to any but buccaniers. But every obstacle yielded to their valor; the city was taken, and booty gained to the amount of £1,750,000. Their rapacious commander, however, as soon as they set sail, offered £5,250 for the share of those who had been the chief instruments in procuring so considerable a spoil. The buccaniers, exasperated at this treatment, resolved immediately to board his vessel, the Sceptre, which was at that time too far distant from the rest of the ships to expect assistance, and he was upon the point of being massacred, when one of the malcontents proposed to return to Carthagena, and there obtain a further booty. The proposal was received with general applause, and without further deliberation all the ships sailed towards the city. They entered without resistance, and, having shut up the men in the great church, exacted payment of £210,750, the amount of the booty in dispute, promising to retreat immediately upon their compliance, but threatening the most dreadful vengeance if they refused. Upon this a priest of the city mounted the pulpit, and persuaded the people to yield up all their gold, silver, and jewels. The collection however, not furnishing the sum required, the city was ordered to be plundered. After amassing all they could, these adventurers again set sail; when they were met by a fleet of Dutch and English vessels. Both nations were now in alliance with Spain, and several of the pirates were taken and sunk; the rest escaped to St. Domingo. Such was the last memorable event in the history of the buccaniers. The separation of the English and French interests in the war that ensued on account of the prince of Orange; the successful means they both made use of to promote the cultivation of land in their colonies, by the assistance of some of these men; and the prudence they showed in entrusting the most distinguished of them with civil and military employments, together with the protection they were both under a necessity of affording to the Spanish settlements, which till then had been a general object of plunder; these circumstances, and various others, beside the impossibility there was of supplying the place of those leaders, who were continually dropping off, concurred to put an end to a society as extraordinary as ever existed. Without any regular system, without laws, without subordination, and even without any fixed revenue, they became the astonishment of the age in which they lived. BUCCATA, in entomology, a species of conops. Color ferruginous; abdomen hooked and gray; face white; wings clouded ; inhabiting Europe. BUCCATUS, a species of oestrus, color griseous; face white, and dotted with black; found in South Carolina. BUCCELLARII, an order of soldiery under the Greek emperors, appointed to guard and distribute the ammunition bread. Authors differ however as to their office and quality. Some give the denomination to parasites in the courts of princes, some make them the body guards of emperors, and some fancy they were only such as emperors employed in putting persons to death privately. BUCCELLATIO, in surgery, a term used by some for stopping the bleeding of an artery or vein, by lint. BUCCELLATION, n. s. From Lat. buccella, a mouthful. In some chemical authors, signifies a dividing into large pieces. BUCCELLATUM, in ancient military affairs, camp bread, or biscuit baked hard and dry, for lightness and keeping. Soldiers always carried with them enough for a fortnight, and sometimes much longer, during the time that military discipline was kept up. See BAGGAGE. BUCCINA, an ancient musical and military instrument, usually taken for a kind of trumpet. Festus defines it a crooked horn, played on like a trumpet. Vegetius observes, that the buccina was bent in a semicircle, in which respect it differed from the tuba or trumpet. It is hard to distinguish it from the cornu, or horn, unless it was something less, and not quite so crooked. It certainly was different, as we never read of the cornu used by the watch. Besides, the sound of the buccina was sharper, and to be heard much farther than either the cornu or the tuba. In Scripture a similar instrument, used both in war and in the temple, was called kiren-jobel, rams' horn, &c. It was used among the Jews to proclaim their feast-days, new moons, jubilees, sabbatic years, and the like. At Lacedemon, notice was given by the buccina, when it was supper time; and the like was done at Rome, where the grandees had a buccina blown both before and after they sat down to table. BUCCINA AURIS, in middle age writers, the drum of the ear. BUCCINATOR, in anatomy, a muscle on each side of the face, common to the lips and cheeks, and making the inner substance of the latter. BUCCINATOR NOMINUM, a slave, among the ancient Romans, who attended the public crier. BUCCINUM, in conchology, the whelk, a genus of shell fish belonging to the order of vermes testacea. This animal is one of the snail kind. The shell is univalve, spiral, and gibbous. The aperture is oval, ending in a small strait canal, with a retuse beak or projection; pillarlip expanded. A hundred and ninety species are scattered over the shores of the different parts of the globe. They are thus divided by Gmelin. Ampullacea inflated, rounded, thin, subdiaphonous, and brittle. Cassidea caudata, with a short, exserted, reflected beak; lip unarmed outwardly. Cassidea unguiculata, lip prickly outwards on the hind part; in other respects resembling the last division. Callosa, pillar-lip dilated and thickened. Delrita, pillar-lip appearing as if worn flat. Lævigata, smooth; and not enumerated in the former divisions. Angulata, angular; and not included in the former divisions. Turrita, subulate and smooth. The six following species are found in the British seas: 1. B. lapillus, or massy whelk, one of the British shells that produce the purple dye analogous to the purpura of the ancients. See MUREX. 2. B. minutum, or small whelk, with five spires, striated spirally, ribbed transversely; is less than a pea, and is found in Norway. 3. B. pullus, or brown whelk, with five spires, striated, waved, and tuberculated; aperture wrinkled; upper part replicated; and in length five-eighths of an inch. 4. B. reticulatum, with spires scarcely raised, and strongly reticulated, is of a deep brown color, and of an oblong form, and of the size of a hazel nut. The aperture is white, glossy, and denticulated. 5. B. striatum, has eight spires, with elevated striæ, undulated near the apex. It is nearly four inches long. 6. B. undatum, the waved whelk, with seven spires, spirally striated and deeply and transversely undulated. It is three inches long, and inhabits deep water. BUCCLEUGH, a village of Scotland, in the county of Selkirk, from which the noble family of Scott have the title of Duke. BUCCO, the barbet, in ornithology, a genus belonging to the order of pica. The beak is cultrated, turned inwards, compressed on the sides, and emarginated on each side at the apex; and there is a long slit below the eyes. The nostrils are covered with feathers. The feet have four toes, two before and two behind. Ornithologists enumerate nineteen species, all found in Asia, Africa, or the southern parts of America. BUCCULA, in anatomy, the fleshy part under the chin. BUCCULA, in antiquity, the umbo or prominent part in the middle of a shield; thus called because usually made in the form of a mouth or face. BUCENTAUR, a galeas, or large galley, of the doge of Venice, adorned with pillars on both sides, and a purple silk awning, and gilt over from the prow to the stern. In it the doge received the great lords and persons of quality that went to Venice, accompanied with the ambassadors, counsellors of state, &c. It served also in the magnificent ceremony of ascension day, on which the doge threw a ring into the sea to espouse it, and to denote his dominion over the gulph of Venice. Some ascribe the name to its being ornamented with the figure of a centaur; and trace its origin to the year 1177. BUCEPHALA, or BUCEPHALOS, in ancient geography, a town built by Alexander, on the west side of the Hydaspis, a river of the Hither India, in memory of his horse. BUCEPHALA, in ornithology, a species of anas found in North America. Color whitish; back and wings black; the head large, silky, and shining. This is the petit canard, à grosse tête, of Buffon. BUCEPHALIA, in entomology, a species of bombyx commonly called the buff-top moth, found feeding on the oak, lime, and willow trees. BUCEPHALON, in botany. See TROPHIS. BUCEPHALUS, the horse of Alexander the Great, which was killed in the action with Porus, after crossing that river. Others say, this horse died of age, thirty years old; and not in the battle, but some time after. Hesychius says, his being marked on the buttock with the head of an ox, gave rise to his name. This animal, who had so long shared the toils and dangers of his master, had formerly received signal marks of royal regard. Having disappeared in the country of the Uxii, Alexander issued a proclamation, commanding his horse to be restored, otherwise he would ravage the whole country with fire and sword. This command was immediately obeyed. So dear,' says Arrian, was Bucephalus to Alexander, and so terrible was Alexander to the Barbarians!' BUCEPHALUS, in entomology, a species of cryptocephalus. Color cyaneous; the mouth, margin of the thorax, and the legs, red. BUCER (Martin), one of the first reformers at Strasburg, was born in 1491, in Alsace; and took the religious habit of St. Dominic at seven years of age: but meeting with the writings of Martin Luther, and comparing them with the Scriptures, he began to entertain doubts of the Romish religion. After some conferences with Luther at Heidelburg, in 1521, he adopted most of his sentiments; but in 1532 gave the preference to those of Zuinglius. He assisted in many conferences; and in 1548 was called to Augsburg to sign the agreement between the Papists and Protestants, called the Interim. His warm opposition to this project exposed him to many difficulties and hardships; the news of which reaching England, where his fame had already arrived, Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury gave him an invitation to come over, which he readily accepted. In 1549 an handsome apartment was assigned him in the university of Cambridge, and a salary to teach theology. King Edward VI. had the greatest regard for him. Being told that he was very sensible of the cold of the climate, and suffered much for want of a German stove, he sent him 100 crowns to purHe died in 1551, and war buried at Cambridge with great funeral pomp. In the reign of Mary, five years after he was buried, his body was dug up and publicly burnt, and his tomb demolished; but it was afterwards re-built by order of queen Elizabeth. He composed many works, among which are Commentaries on the Evangelists and Gospels. chase one. BUCERAS, in botany, fenugreek. See TRI GONELLA. BUCEROS, in ornithology, a genus belonging to the order of pica. The beak is convex, cultrated, very large, and serrated outwards: the forehead is naked, with a bony gibbosity. The nostrils are behind the base of the beak. The tongue is sharp and short. The feet of the gressarii kind, i. e. the toes are distinct from each other. The species belonging to this genus are, Bicornis, Abyssinicus, Africanus, Malabaricus, hydrocorax, rhinoceros, galeatus, panayensis, manillensis, nasutus, albus, and obscurus. The principal are: 1. B. bicornis, with a flat bony forehead, and two horns before. The body is black, and about the size of a hen; but the breast, belly, and thighs, are white. There is a white spot on the wing; the tail is long, with ten black prime feathers, and the four outermost on each are white. The feet are greenish, with three toes before and one behind. It is a native of China, and called Calao by Willoughby and other authors. The pied horn-bill, described by Latham from a living specimen which came from the East Indies, the author supposes to be the same species, differing merely in sex or age. The manners of this bird were peculiar: it would leap forwards or sideways with both legs at once, like a magpie: when at rest it folded its head back between the wings: the general air and appearance was rather stupid and dull, though it would sometimes put on a fierce look when surprised: it would eat lettuce, after bruising it with its bill, and swallow raw flesh; as well as devour rats, mice, and small birds: it had different tones of voice; sometimes a hoarse sound in the throat, most like oŭck, oūck; at other times very hoarse and weak, not unlike the clucking of a Turkey hen. This bird used to display its wings and enjoy itself in a warm sun, but shivered in the cold; and, as the winter approached, died, unable to bear the severity of the climate, so different to its nature. Another variety, the calao, is about the size of a hen. It inhabits the Philippine islands, and has a cry more like that of a hog or a calf than of a bird. The Gentoos rank it among their gods, and worship it. It lives altogether in woods, feeding on fruits, such as the Indian fig, pistachios, &c. which it swallows whole; and after the external parts have been digested, it brings up the nuts again whole, with the kernels fit for vegetation. 2. B. hydrocorax, the Indian crow of Ray, has a plain bony fore head without any horns. The body is yellowish above, and black below. It inhabits the Molucca isles. Willoughby observes, that it resembles our raven in the bill, but is red on the temples like some kinds of turkies; has wide nostrils and ill-favored eyes; and that it feeds chiefly on nutmegs, whence its flesh has a fine aromatic relish. In its native place it is frequently tamed, and is useful in destroying rats and mice in houses. 3. B. nasutus, has a smooth forehead, is about the size of a magpie, and is a native of Senegal. These birds are very common at Senegal, and other warm parts of the old continent, where they are called tock. When taken young they immediately become familiar. In their wild state they feed on fruits, but when domesticated eat bread, and almost any thing that is offered to them. 5. B. rhinoceros has a crooked horn in the forehead joined to the upper mandible. It is a native of India. It is said to feed on flesh and carrion; and to follow the hunters for the purpose of feeding on the entrails of the beasts which they kill. They chase rats and mice, and after pressing them flat with the bill in a peculiar manner, and tossing them up into the air, swallow them whole immediately on their descent. BUCHAN, a district on the east coast of Scotland, lying partly in the county of Aberdeen and partly in that of Banff. The latter district extends northwards from the Ugie to the sea, and westward as far as the Deveron, comprehending a tract of twenty miles in length, and nine in breadth, and is more free from hills and mountains than any other county of the same extent in Scotland. That part which lies in Aberdeenshire, extends south to the river Ythan. It is inhabited chiefly by Lowlanders, and gives the title of earl to the family of Erskine; of which family, however, Erskine of Mar is the chief. BUCHANAN, a parish of Scotland, in Stirlingshire, anciently called Inch-cailloch, about twenty-seven miles long and nine broad. A long tract of it lies on the north side of LochLomond, and the Grampian hills stretch through it, from south-west to north-east. The river Forth has its rise in the upper end of the parish; and the Endrick runs through it. Some of the islands in Loch-Lomond belong to this parish, on one of which, Inch-cailloch, lately stood the parish church. There are besides three small lakes, and some very extensive oak-woods. In Craigrostan are several caves, one of which afforded shelter to king Robert Bruce, and is known by the name of king Robert's cave. A good limestone quarry has lately been opened. On the side of Loch-Lomond stands the seat of the duke of Montrose. At Inversnaid is a small fort, on which a guard is mounted by a detachment from Dumbarton castle. BUCHANAN (George), a celebrated Latin poet, was born in February 1506. A small farm called the Moss, two miles from the village of Killearn, in Stirlingshire, was the property of his father, and the place of his nativity. George, however, might have been confined to toil at the lowest employments of life, if the generosity of his uncle, George Heriot, had not assisted him in his education, and enabled him to pursue for two years his studies at Paris, after his father's death. But that short space had scarcely elapsed, when the death of his benefactor obliged him to return to his country, and forsake for a time the paths of science. He was yet under his twentieth year, and, in this extremity, he enlisted as a common soldier, under John duke of Albany, who commanded the troops which France had sent to assist Scotland in the war against England. But he was disgusted with the fatigues of one campaign; and fortunately, John Major, then professor of philosophy at St. Andrew's, hearing of his necessity and his merit, afforded him a temporary relief. He now became the pupil of Maiz, a celebrated teacher in that university, under whom he studied logic; and followed his tutor to Paris, where he was invited to teach grammar in the college of St. Barbe. In this occupation he was found by the earl of Cassilis, with whom, having remained five years at Paris, he returned to Scotland. He next acted as preceptor to the famous earl of Murray, the natural son of James V. While thus occupied, he suddenly found his life was in danger from his enemies, the Franciscan monks, who, enraged at the poignant satires he had written against them, branded him with the appellation of atheist. Cardinal Beaton gave orders to apprehend him, and king James V. was bribed with a considerable sum to permit his execution. He was seized accordingly; but escaping the vigilance of his guards, he fled into England. Henry VIII. at all times the slave of caprice and passion, was then burning at the same stake the Lutheran and the Papist. His court did not suit a philosopher or a satyrist. After a short stay, Buchanan crossed the sea to France; and, to his extreme disappointment, found at Paris, cardinal Beaton, as ambassador from Scotland. On this, he retired privately to Bourdeaux, and met with Andrew Govea, a Portuguese of great learning and worth, with whom he had formerly been acquainted, and who was employed in teaching a public school. He acted for some time as the assistant of his friend; and, during the three years he resided at this place, he composed the tragedies which do him so much honor. It was here also that he wrote some of the most beautiful of those poems, in which he rallied the Muses, and threatened to forsake them, as not being able to maintain their votary. About this time also, he presented a copy of verses to the emperor Charles V. who happened to pass through Bourdeaux. His enemies, meantime, were not inactive. Cardinal Beaton wrote to the archbishop of Bourdeaux, inviting him to punish this most pestilent of all heretics. The archbishop, however, on enquiry, declined molesting him. Meantime Govea being called upon by the king of Portugal, to establish an academy at Coimbra, entreated Buchanan to accompany him. He consented, but had not been a year in Portugal, when Govea died, and left him exposed to the malice of his inveterate enemies the monks. They loudly objected to him that he was a Lutheran; that he had written poems against the Francisans and had been guilty of the abominable crime of eating flesh in lent. He was confined to a monastery, till he should learn what : these men fancied to be religion; and they enjoined him to translate the Psalms into Latin verse; a task which every man of taste knows with what admirable skill and genius he performed. On obtaining his liberty, he had the promise of a speedy promotion from the king of Portugal; the issue of which, his aversion to the clergy did not allow him to wait. He hastened to England; but the perturbed state of affairs during the minority of Edward VI. not giving him the prospect of any security, he again set out for France. He had not been long there, when he published his Jephthes, which he dedicated to the marshal de Brissac. This patron did not want generosity, and sent him to Pied-. mont, as preceptor to his son Timoleon de Cossi, an employment in which he continued several years; and, during the leisure it afforded him, he fully examined the controversies which now agitated Europe, and finished many of his smaller poems. After this, he returned to Scotland, and made an open profession of the reformed faith: but soon once more quitted his native country for France. Queen Mary, however, having determined that he should have the charge of educating her son, recalled him; and, till the prince should arrive at a proper age, he was nominated principal of St. Andrew's. His success as James's preceptor is well known. When it was observed to him that he had made his majesty a pedant: it is a wonder,' replied he, that I have made so much of him.' During the misfortunes that befel the amiable but imprudent Mary, he joined the party of the earl of Murray, and, at his earnest desire, wrote the Detection, a work which his greatest admirers have read with regret. Having been sent with other commissioners to England, against his mistress, he was, on his return, rewarded with the abbacy of Cross Reguel; made director of the chancery; and some time after a lord of the privy council and privy seal. He was likewise rewarded by queen Elizabeth with a pension of £100 a-year. The last twelve years of his life he employed in composing the history of Scotland. After having vied with the most eminent of the Latin poets, he contested with Livy and Sallust the palm of eloquence and political sagacity: but, like the former of these historians, he was not always careful to preserve himself from the charge of partiality. He died at Edinburgh in 1582, aged seventy-six. Authors speak of him very differently, according to their religious and political principles. As a Latin writer, however, in prose as well as poetry, he has hardly been equalled since the reign of Augustus; nor is he less deserving of remembrance as a friend to the natural liberties of mankind, in opposition to usurpation and tyranny. The happy genius of Buchanan,' says Doctor Robinson, 'equally formed to excel in prose and in verse, more various, more original, and more elegant, than that ofalmost any other modern who writes in Latin, reflects, with regard to this particular, the greatest lustre on his country. The following is a list of his works: 1. Rerum Scoticarum Historia, &c. 2. Psalmorum Davidis Paraphrasis Poetica. 3. De Jure Regni Apud Scotos Dialogus. 4. Psalmus civ. Cum Judicio Barclaii, &c. 5. 6 Psalmus cxx. Cum Analysi Organica Beuzeri. 6. Baptistes, sive Calumnia. 7. Jephthes, sive Votum, Tragoedia. 8. Euripidis Medea et Alcæstis, Tragœdiæ. 9. De Caleto Recepto Carmen. 10. Franciscanus et Fratres. 11. Elegiæ, Silvæ, &c. 12. De Sphæra. 13. Poemata Miscellanea. 14. Satyra in Cardinalem Lotharingium. 15. Rudimenta Grammatices, Thomæ Linacri ex Anglico Sermone in Latinum Versa. 16. An Admonition to the True Lords. 17. De Prosodi. 18. Chamæleon, 1572. 19. Ad Viros sui Seculi Epistolæ. 20. Literæ Regina Scoticæ ad com. Bothweliæ. 21. A Detection of the Doings of Mary Queen of Scots, and of James Earl of Bothwell, against Henry Lord Darnly. 22. Hendecasyllabi, et Tambi. 23. Fratres Fraterrimi. 24. Epigrammata. 25. Vita ab Ipso Scripta Biennio Ante Mortem. 26. Life of Mary Queen of Scots. These have been severally printed often, and in various countries. An edition of his whole works was printed at Edinburgh, in 1704, in two volumes folio. An elegant monument was erected to his memory in 1788, at Killearn. BUCHANAN (Claudius), D.D., was born at Cambuslang, near Glasgow, in 1766, and entered the university of that city. In 1787 he came to London, and was articled as clerk to an attorney. But, through the recommendation of the Rev. John Newton, was sent by Mr. Thornton, of Clapham, to Queen's college, Cambridge. Being appointed, in 1798, chaplain to the East India Company at Bengal, he was chosen vice-provost and classical professor of the college founded by the Marquis of Wellesley at Fort William. In 1806 he returned to England, and was honored with a diploma by the Glasgow university, as also by that of Cambridge, to which he presented some valuable manuscripts. He died in 1815, while employed in preparing an edition of the Syriac Testament. His works are: 1. Christian Researches in Asia. 2. The First Four Years of the College at Fort William. 3. Memoir on the Expediency of an Ecclesiastical Establishment in India. 4. The Three Eras of Light, two discourses at Cambridge. 5. A brief View of the state of the Colonies of Great Britain and her Asiatic Empire, in respect to Religious Instruction. 6. Sermons on Interesting Subjects. 7. A Letter to the East India Company, in reply to the Statements of Mr. Buller, concerning the idol Juggernaut. 8. Address delivered at a special Meeting of the Church Missionary Society to four Ministers destined for Ceylon and Tranquebar. BUCHAN-NESS, a promontory of Scotland, of which it is the farthest point, and the most eastern of all Scotland. It is near Peterhead. BUCHNERA, in botany, a genus of the angiospermia order, in the didynamia class of plants: CAL. obsoletely five-toothed: COR. with a five-cleft border, equal; the lobes heart-shaped. The fruit is a capsule of an oblong oval figure, pointed at the end, containing two cells, and opening at the top into two parts. The seeds are numerous, and of an angular figure. There are fourteen species, natives of the Cape and India. BUCHOREST, or BUCHAREST, a pretty large town of Turkey in Europe, in Wallachia, and the ordinary residence of a hospodar. The houses are mean and very ill built, except a few that belong to the principal persons. In 1716 a party of Germans from Transylvania entered this town, and took the prince prisoner with all his court, and carried them off. The prince to regain his liberty, gave up that part of Wallachia, which lies between the river Aluth and Transylvania, to the emperor, in 1718. But after the fatal battle of Crotzka, in 1737, the emperor was obliged to restore this part of Wallachia to the hospodar by the treaty of Belgrade. BUCIDA, in botany, a genus of the order monogynia, in the decandria class of plants; natural order twelfth, holoracea: CAL. is indented in five segments: COR. none; and the fruit is a single-seeded berry. There are two species: 1. B. capitata, a native of Montserrat; with flowers in headed spikes; wedge-form leaves, with a villous ciliate margin. bucera mangle; with elongated spikes; leaves wedge-form, with a villous ciliate margin. A native of Jamaica. 2. B. BUCK', n. s. Goth. Swed. Teut. and Belg. BUCKE'STALL,bock; Sax. bucc; Sans. bok, BUCK'ING. Per. svoz. ẞnen; Welsh, broch Arm. bouc; Fr. bouc; Ital. becco. An animal, striking or butting with the horns; the male of deer and goats, of rabbits, and some other animals. And many an hart and many an hinde, Chaucer's Boke of the Duchesse. Bucks, goats, and the like, are said to be tripping Peacham. or salient, that is, going or leaping. The chief time of setting traps, is in their bucking time. Mortimer. BUCK', v. & n. BUCKET, Goth. back; Sax. buc; Belg. bac; Teut. bauch, BUCK BASKET, lauch, laug; which seem to BUCK'WASHING. be formed from ach, auch, aug, water; verb Teut. bauchen; Swed. byke; Fr. buquer; Arm. buga, Ital. bucato; Span. bugodo. A tub or cask; a lie for washing; urine: to wash with lie. The noun is applied both to things washed, and the liquor in which they are washed. Bucket is the diminutive of buck. Now up, now down, as boket in a well. Chaucer. Here is a basket; he may creep in here, and throw foul linen upon him, as if it were going to bucking. Shakspeare. They conveyed me into a buckbasket; rammed me in with foul shirts, foul stockings, and greasy napkins. Id. Buck! I would I could wash myself of the buck: I warrant you, buck, and of the season too it shall appear. Id. Of late, not able to travel with her furred pack, she washes bucks here at home. Id. Now is this golden crown like a deep well, Id. BUCK, the male of the fallow deer; and also of rabbits and other animals. A buck the first year is called a fawn, the second a pricket, the |