bugleweed 
cus, reputed astringent and sedative, and used 
as a remedy for hemorrhage from the lungs. 
buglewort ' (bu'gl-wert), n. Same as bugle- 
weed. 
bugloss (bu'glos), n. [(Late ME. bugille : see 
bugle^) < F. buglossc, < L. buglossa, buglossos, (. 
Gr. /foi'y/lwcraof, bugloss, lit. ox-tongue (in allu- 
sion to the shape and roughness of its leaves), 
< fiovf, ox, 4- y'Auaaa, tongue: see gloss 2 .] The 
popular name of the plant Anchusa offldnalis. 
The small wild bugloss is Asperuyo procuwbeiis ; the 
viper's-bugloss, Echiuni vulgare ; the small bugloss, Ly- 
coptrig arveiisis; and the sea-bugloss, Mertensia marilima. 
They are all boraginaceous plants, with rough leaves. 
Also called ox-tongtte. 
There poppies, nodding, mock the hope of toll: 
There the blue bugloss paints the sterile soil. 
Crabbe, Village, i. 6. 
Spanish bugloss. Same as alkanet, 2. 
buglow (bug'16), n. Same as baggala. 
bugqng (bu'gong), n. [Australian.] An Aus- 
tralian butterfly, Danais Kmniace, highly prized 
as an article of food by the aborigines. 
bugor (bu'gor), n. [Buss, bugori, a hillock, a 
heap (of sand or snow).] The elevated ground 
or chain of hillocks separating limans or creeks, 
such as those which gash the shores of the 
Black Sea, the Caspian, etc. 
bug-seed (bug'sed), it. A common name of 
the Corispermum hyssopifolium, a chenopodia- 
ceous weed widely distributed over northern 
temperate regions. The name has reference 
to the shape of the fruit. 
bug-shad (bug'shad), . The bugfish or men- 
haden. [Local, TJ. S. (Virginia).] 
bug-wordt (bug'werd), n. [< bug 1 + word."] A 
word which frightens; blustering talk; a bug- 
bear. Also bug's word, bugs-word. 
No more of that, sweet friend ; those are bug's words. 
Chapman, Gentleman Usher, ii. 1. 
Greedy. A man in commission 
Give place to a tatterdemalion ! 
Mar. No bug words, sir. 
Massinger, New Way to Pay Old Debts. 
Death is a bug-word; things are not brought to that 
extremity. Dryden, Sir Martin Mar-all, i. 1. 
bugwort (bug'wert), n. [< bug 2 + wort 1 .'] 
Same as bugbane. 
buhach. (bu'hach), n. The powdered flower- 
heads of the plant Pyrethrum cinerariwfolium, 
and of other species, which are effectual in- 
secticides. Commonly called Persian or Dal- 
matian insect-powder. 
buhl (bol), n. [Short for buhl-work, orig. Boulle- 
work or Boule-work. Buhl is a German-looking 
Buhl. Commode executed by Boule, in the Bibliotheque Mazarine, 
Paris. (From " L' Art pour Tous.") 
spelling of Boule or Boulle, the name of aFrench 
artist (Andre Charles Boule, 1642-1732), who 
brought this kind of work to high perfection.] 
A style of inlaid decoration in cabinet-work 
practised by Boule, a celebrated designer un- 
der Louis XIV. ; also, the articles so decorated. 
Buhl is of wood richly inlaid with a kind of mosaic, com- 
posed especially of tortoise-shell and line- or figure-work 
in metal, both gold-colored and white. Buhl and coun- 
ter, a technical term for buhl decoration when two pat- 
terns are obtained by one sawing from a sheet of metal, 
viz., the decorative strip or scroll which is used in one 
place, and an open pattern of the same which is used else- 
where. 
buhl-saw (boTsa), n. A peculiar kind of frame- 
saw used in cutting out 
buhl-work. Also spelled 
boule-saw. 
buhl-work (bol'werk), n. 
Same as buhl. 
buhr (ber), . Same as 
bur-stone. Metallic buhr 
See burl. 3? 
^ny^rj) 
. 
buhr-dresser (ber'dres"- 
er), . See bur-dresser. 
buhr-driver (ber'dri'ver), H. See bur-driver. 
buhrstoue (ber'ston), H. See burstone. 
bulk 1 (buk), n. and v. A Scotch form of book. 
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bulk 2 (bok), n. A Scotch form of bulk 1 . 
build (bild), v.; pret. and pp. built, builded, ppr. 
building. [Prop., as in early mod. E., spelled 
bild, < ME. bilden, belden, beeldeii, bylden, bidden, 
< AS. byldan (late and rare), build, < bold (early 
and common), a dwelling, house (ef. Icel. bol, 
a farm, abode, = OSw. bol, a house, dwelling 
(> bylja, build), = Dan. bol, a small farm), < Man 
(</ *bu, *bo) = Icel. bua, live, dwell, whence also 
bottle 1 , a dwelling, bower 1 , a dwelling, bit/ 2 , 
build, etc.: see bottle 1 , bower 1 , bow 6 , by 2 , etc., 
big 2 , etc.] I. trans. 1. To frame or construct, 
as an edifice ; form by uniting materials into a 
regular structure ; erect. 
The house was builded of the earth, 
And shall fall again to ground. 
Tennyson, Deserted House. 
2. Figuratively (a) To form by art in any 
way; construct. 
He knew 
Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. 
Milton, Lycidas, 1. 11. 
(6) To raise as on a support or foundation; 
rear. 
Who builds his hope in air of your good looks, 
Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast. 
Shak., Rich. III., iii. 4. 
Suspect not you 
A faith that's built upon so true a sorrow. 
Fletcher, Beggars' Bush, i. 2. 
On God and Godlike men we build our trust. 
Tennyson, Duke of Wellington, ix. 
(c) To establish, increase, and strengthen : gen- 
erally with up : as, to build up a fine business ; 
to build up a character. 
I, that have lent my life to build up yours. 
Tennyson, Princess, iv. 
To build castles In Spain. See castle. 
II. intrans. 1. To exercise the art or prac- 
tise the business of building; construct. 2. 
Figuratively, to rear, erect, or construct any- 
thing, as a plan or a system of thought. 
Buddhism has its Tripitakas, which its various branches 
recognize, and on which its several schools build. 
Contemporary Rev., LI. 207. 
3. To rest or depend, as on a foundation ; base ; 
rely : with on or upon. 
Nay, I dare build upon his secrecy, 
He knows not to deceive me. 
B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, iii. 2. 
This is a surer way than to build on the interpretation 
of an author, who does not consider how the ancients used 
to think. Addison, Ancient Medals. 
build (bild), n. [< build, .] Manner of con- 
struction; make; form: as, the build of a ship. 
Lines of steam-ships should be aided on the condition 
that their build be such as would permit of their easy con- 
version into men-of-war. The American, VIII. 161. 
builder (bil'der), re. One who builds, or whose 
occupation is that of building ; specifically, 
one who controls or directs the work of con- 
struction in any capacity. 
In the practice of civil architecture, the builder comes 
between the architect who designs the work and the arti- 
sans who execute it. Eng. Encyc. 
building (bil'ding), n. [Early mod. E. also 
bilding, < ME. bildinge, byldynge, buldynge, 
rarely buyldynge; verbal n. of build, t>.] 1. 
The act of constructing, erecting, or estab- 
lishing. 2. A fabric built or constructed ; a 
structure; an edifice; as commonly understood, 
a house for residence, business, or public use, 
or for shelter of animals or storage of goods. 
In law, anything erected by art, and fixed upon or in the 
soil, composed of different pieces connected together, and 
designed for permanent use in the position in which it 
is so fixed, is a building. Edw. Livingston. Thus, a pole 
fixed in the earth is not a building, but a fence or a wall is. 
Seest thou these great buildings? Mark xiii. 2. 
3+. A flock or number: said of rooks. 
Master Simon . . . told me that according to the most 
ancient and approved treatise on hunting, I must say u 
muster of peacocks. "In the same way," added he, with a 
slight air of pedantry, "we say a flight of doves or swal- 
lows, a bevy of quails, a herd of deer, of wrens, or cranes, 
a skulk of foxes, or a building of rooks." 
Irving, Sketch-Book, p. 259. 
Building society, a joint-stock benefit society, for the 
purpose of raising by periodical subscriptions a fund to 
assist members in building or purchasing, the property 
being mortgaged to the society till the amount advanced 
is fully repaid with interest. 
building-block (bil'ding-blok), n. 1. One of 
the temporary supports or blocks on which a 
ship's keel rests while the ship is building. 
It is a block of timber which can be removed when the 
key-pieces or templets are knocked away. 
2. One of a set of blocks with which children 
imitate the construction of buildings. 
building-iron (birding-i"ern), n. A hand-tool 
used in the manner of a soldering-iron, to melt 
bulb 
wax and cause it to flow upon the blank spaces 
between the types of an electrotype mold. 
building-lease (bil'ding-les), . A lease of 
land for a term of years (in England usually 
99), under which the lessee engages to erect 
certain edifices on the land according to speci- 
fication, these edifices falling to the landowner 
on the expiration of the lease. 
building-slip (bil' ding-slip), n. The inclined 
plane in a dock or builder's yard on which a 
ship is constructed. The ship is raised above the slip 
by piles of blocks on which it rests. 
building-stance (bil'ding-stans), n. A piece 
of ground on which to build. [Scotch.] 
building-wax (bil' ding- waks), n. Beeswax 
used with a building-iron to "build up " the 
blank spaces between the types of an electro- 
type mold. 
buildress (bil'dres), n. [< builder + -ess.] A 
female builder, filler. [Rare.] 
built (bilt), p. a. [Pp. of build, t\] 1. Con- 
structed; formed; shaped; made: often used 
of the human body, and frequent in compound 
nautical terms, as clincher-ftW, clipper-6i, 
frigate-built, etc. 
Like the generality of Genoese countrywomen, strongly 
built. Landor. 
2. Constructed of different pieces; not com- 
posed of one piece : as, a built mast or block ; 
afewSirib Built beam. See 'beam. 
builtt (bilt), u. [For build, .] Form; shape; 
build ; mode of building. Sir W. Temple. 
built-up (bilt'up), a. Composed of several 
parts joined together : as, a built-up mast, rib, 
arch, etc Built-up trail See trail. 
buirdly (biird'li), a. [Of uncertain origin. Cf . 
burly 1 ."] Large and well made; stout in appear- 
ance; burly. [Scotch.] 
Buirdly chiels and clever hizzies. Burns, Twa Dogs. 
buisson (F. pron. bwe-sdn'), n. [F., a bush, < 
buis, a box-tree: see box 1 ."] In gardening, a 
fruit-tree on a very low stem, with the head 
closely pruned. 
buist (bust), n. [Also written boost, var. of 
boigt, a box ; cf . buistin'-iron, the marking-iron, 
tar-buigt, the box in which the iron (orig. the 
tar) for marking is kept: see boist 1 , boost 3 ."] 
1. A box; a chest. 2. A coffin. 3. A bas- 
ket. 4. A distinctive mark set upon sheep 
and cattle; a brand; hence, any distinguishing 
characteristic. [Scotch in all senses.] 
What old carle hast thou with thee? He is not of the 
brotherhood of Saint Mary's at least he has not the 
buist of these black cattle. Scott, Monastery, II. 58. 
buist (bust), v. t. [< buist, n."\ To mark with 
a buist, as sheep. Also boost. [Scotch.] 
bukt, A Middle English form of buck 1 . 
buke 1 , n. A Scotch form of book. 
buke 2 (bo'ka), . [< Chino-Jap. bu, martial, 
military, + ke, family.] The military families 
of Japan, as distinguished from the kuge, or 
court nobility; the daimios, or territorial nobil- 
ity, and their retainers, the samurai. The distinc- 
tion between buke and kuge ceased on the abolition of the 
feudal system in 1871. See kuge. 
bukket, A Middle English form of buck 1 . 
Bukkio (buk'ke"6), n. Same as Buppo. 
bukkum-wood (buk'um-wud), n. [< bukk/um, 
a native name, + wood."] Same as sappan- 
wood. 
bukshee (buk'she), n. [Also written bukhshee, 
repr. Hind, bakshi, a paymaster, < baksh, pay, a 
gift, < Pers. batehulan, give, forgive. Cf. buk- 
shish, bakshish."] An East Indian name for a 
paymaster or a commander. 
bukshish (buk'shesh), n. Same as bakshish. 
bulafo, n. [Native name in Guinea.] A musi- 
cal instrument used by the negroes of Guinea. 
It consists of several wooden pipes fastened together with 
leathern thongs, with small spaces between the pipes. 
In playing it the pipes are 
struck with small rods or 
drumsticks. 
bulata (bul'a-ta), n. 
Same as balata-gum. 
bulau (bu'la), n. [Ap- 
par. a native name.] 
An insectivorous 
mammal of the genus 
Gymnura, inhabiting 
Sumatra, Borneo, 
etc. ; a gymnure. 
bulb (bulb), n. [< 
F. bulbe, < L. bulbus, 
a bulbous root, an 
onion, < Gr. /3o?./3<if, 
a bulbous root.] 1. 
A form of the leaf-bud, usually subterranean, 
in which the stem is reduced to a flat disk, 
i, Bulb of Hyacinth. 2, Longitudi- 
nal section of same. 
a, summit of bud, or growing- 
point: b, bases of leaves; c, crown 
of root, or stem ; </, fibers, or root 
proper ; a, youny bulb, or offset. 
