butyric 
butyric (bu-tir'ik), a. [< L. butyrum, butter, + 
-ic.J Pertaining to or derived from butter Bu- 
tyric acid, I':ill7<'^ '.I HI, a colorless mobile liquid having a 
strung. Mold smell and acrid taste. Normal butyric acid 
is miscible with water and forms crystalline salts with tile 
bases. It is prepared from butter, or by fermenting sugar 
with putrid cheese. It also occurs in cod-liver oil and 
other fats, in the juice of meat, and in the perspiration, 
and is widely distributed in the vegetable kingdom. Bu- 
tyric ether, the generic name of a class of compounds 
formed from butyric acid by the substitution of one atom 
of a basic organic radical, such as ethyl, for an atom of 
hydrogen. Butyric fermentation, a kind of fermen- 
tation or putrefaction characterized by the production of 
butyric acid. It is caused by a microbe belonging to the 
genus Bacillus. See fermentation. 
butyril (bu'ti-ril), . [< L. butyrum, butter, + 
-il. ] The radical (C 3 H 7 CO) of butyric acid and 
its derivatives. 
butyrin, butyrine (bu'ti-rin), . [< L. buty- 
rum, butter, + -hft, -we 2 .] A triglycerid, C 3 H 8 
(411702)3, which is a constant constituent of 
butter, together with olein, stearin, and other 
glycerids. It is a neutral yellowish liquid fat, 
having a sharp, bitter taste. 
butyrous (bu'ti-rus), a. [< L. butyrum, butter, 
+ -OM.S.] Same as butyraceows. 
buxeous (buk'se-us), a. [< L. buxeus, pertain- 
ing to the box-tree, < buxus, the box-tree: see 
Buxus.'} Pertaining to the box-tree or resem- 
bling it. 
"K^C^^'^ -KTTal- i ^^(P^t;ta),buy;not^nd 
in the other Teut. tongues ; connections doubt- 
ful. Hence in comp. abyl, and by perversion 
abide'^, q. v.] I. trans. 1. To acquire the pos- 
session of, or the right or title to, by paying 
a consideration or an equivalent, usually in 
money ; obtain by paying a price to the seller ; 
purchase : opposed to sell. 
740 
Botc I Rule thus thi Reame Rend out my Ribbes ! 
gif hit beo so that JBoxumnexse beo at myn assent. 
Piers Plowman (A), iv. 150. 
2. The quality of being buxom; briskness; 
liveliness ; healthy vigor or plumpness. 
BuXUS (buk'sus), . [L., the box-tree, > E. 
box 1 , q. v.] A genus of plants whose species 
afford the valuable hard 
wood called boxwood; the 
box. It is the most northern 
arborescent plant of the natural 
order Euphorbiacete. B. semper- 
virens, the common box, is a na- 
tive of Europe and Asia, and is 
found from the Atlantic to China 
and Japan, sometimes attaining a 
height of 20 or 30 feet, though 
the trunk is seldom more than 8 
or 10 inches in diameter. The 
finest quality of boxwood is from 
the Levant and regions about the 
Black Sea, and is largely employ- 
ed in wood-engraving, for mathe- 
matical and musical instruments, 
and for turning. There are nu- 
merous varieties in cultivation 
for ornamental purposes, includ- 
ing the common dwarf bushy 
form used for garden-edgings. 
buy (bi), 0. ; pret. and pp. bought, ppr. buying. 
[Early mod. E. also buye, by, bie, bye, < ME. 
buyen, byen, bien, beyen, biggen, buggen, etc., < 
AS. bycgan (pret. bohte, pp. boht) = OS. buggean 
A branch of Box ( Buxus 
semfervirens ) . 
kaloid obtained from the box-tree. It has gener- 
ally the appearance of a translucent deep-brown mass; 
its taste is bitter ; it excites sneezing ; it is insoluble in 
water, but is dissolved in small quantity by alcohol and 
by ether. 
buxina (buk-si'na), n. [NL.] Same as buxine. 
buxine, . See buxin. 
buxom (buk'sum), o. [Early mod. E. also buck- 
some, bucksom, < ME. buxom, buxrnn, boxom, 
bouxom, bogsam, bughsom (also, by absorption 
of the palatal, bousom, bowsom, mod. E. as if 
"bowsome), earlier buhsum, obedient, submis- 
sive, < AS. *buhsum (not found) (= D. buig- 
zaam, flexible, submissive, = G. biegsam, flex- 
ible), < bugan, bow, + -sum, -some : see Sow 1 , 
&Mcfc 2 , and -soiree.] If. Yielding to pressure; 
flexible; unresisting. 
Twise was he seene in soaring Eagles shape, 
And with wide winges to beat the buxome ayre. 
Spenser, F. Q., III. xi. 34. 
Wing silently the buxom air. Milton, P. L., ii. 842. 
The crew with merry shouts their anchors weigh, 
Then ply their oars, and brush the buxom sea. 
Dryden, Cym. and Iph., 1. 613. 
2f. Obedient; obsequious; submissive. 
To be ever buxom, and obedient. Foxe. 
"For-thi," seid Samuel to Saul, " god hym-self hoteth 
The, be boxome at his biddynge his wille to fulfllle." 
Piers Plourman (B), iii. 263. 
He did tread down and disgrace all the English, and set 
up and countenance the Irish ; thinking thereby to make 
them more tractable and buxom to the government. 
Spenser, State of Ireland. 
3. Having health and comeliness together with 
a lively disposition j healthy and cheerful ; brisk ; 
jolly ; lively and vigorous. 
A daughter fair, 
So buxom, blithe, and debonair. 
MMon, L' Allegro, 1. 24. 
The buxom, god [Bacchus]. 
Dryden, tr. of Virgil's Georgics. 
A parcel of buxom bonny dames. Taller, No. 273. 
Such bttxom chief shall lead his host 
From India's fires to Zembla's frost. 
Scott, Marmion, iii. 4. 
[In this sense the word is now always applied to girls or 
women, and implies abundant health as shown in plump- 
ness, fresh color, and strength.] 
4. Showing vigor or robustness; sturdy; 
fresh; brisk: said of things: as, "buxom val- 
our," Shak., Hen. V., iii. 6. 
Buxom health of rosy hue. 
Gray, Ode on a Prospect of Eton College. 
5t. Amorous; wanton. Bailey. 
buxomt, v- i. [ME. buxomen; < buxom, o.] To 
be obedient ; yield. 
To buxom to holi churche, and to al the land also. 
St. Edm. Conf. (Early Eng. Poems, ed. Furnivall), 1. 445. 
buxomly (buk'sum-li), adv. [< ME. buxomly, 
buxumli, etc. ; < buxom + -ly 2 .] If. Obedient- 
ly; humbly. 
To condyte me fro Cytee to Cytee, jif it were nede, and 
buxomly to resceyve me and my Companye. 
Mandeville, Travels, p. 82. 
And grace axed of god [that to graunten it is] redy 
[To hem] that boxomeliche biddeth it and ben in wille to 
amenden hem. Piers Plmrnnan (B), xii. 195. 
2. In a buxom manner; briskly; vigorously. 
bnxomness (buk'sum-nes), n. [< ME. buxomnes, 
bwxumnes, bulwumnes, etc. ; < buxom + -ness.] 
If. Obedience; submissiveness. 
His [Emerson's] plan for the extirpation of slavery was 
to buy the slaves from the planters. 
O. W. Holmes, Emerson, viii. 
Hence 2. To get, acquire, or procure for any 
kind of equivalent: as, to buy favor with flattery. 
Euill men take great payn to buy Hell and all for worldly 
pleasure 
Dearer then good men buy heauen, for God is their trea- 
sure. Rhodes, Boke of Nurture (E. E. T. S.), p. 89. 
I have bought 
Golden opinions from all sorts of people. 
Shale., Macbeth, i. 7. 
3. To bribe ; corrupt or pervert by giving a 
consideration ; gain over by money, etc. 
There is one thing which the most corrupt senates are 
unwilling to sell; and that is the power which makes 
them worth buying. Maeaulay, Sir William Temple. 
4. To be sufficient to purchase or procure; 
serve as an equivalent in procuring: as, gold 
cannot buy health. 5t. To aby; suffer. 
What ? schal I buy it on my fieisch so deere 1 
Chaucer, ProL to Wife of Bath's Tale, 1. 167. 
Bought note, bought and sold notes. See note. To 
buy a borough. See boroughi.lo buy againt, to re- 
deem. See againbuy. 
God save yow, that boitghte agayn mankynde. 
Chaucer, Pardoner's Tale, 1. 304. 
To buy at a bargain. See bargain. To buy in. (a) To 
purchase for one^ self, especially shares or stock : op- 
posed to sell out. 
She ordered her husband to buy in a couple of fresh 
coach-horses. Steele, Tatler, No. 109. 
What minor and rival companies stood in the way they 
bought in. W. Barrows, Oregon, p. 38. 
(6) To buy for the owner at a public sale, especially when 
an insufficient price is offered. To buy into, to obtain 
an interest or footing in by purchase, as of the shares of 
a joint-stock company, and formerly in England of a com- 
niission in a regiment. To buy in under the rule, 
in the stock exchange, to purchase stock on behalf of a 
member to enable him to meet a short contract, or to 
return stock which had been borrowed, on notice being 
given to the chairman, who makes the purchase. To buy 
off. (a) In the English service, to obtain a release from 
military service by a payment, (b) To get rid of the op- 
position of by payment ; purchase the non-intervention 
of ; bribe. 
What pitiful things are power, rhetoric, or riches, when 
they would terrify, dissuade, or buy of conscience. South. 
To buy off counsel, to pay counsel not to take employ- 
ment from the opposite party. To buy or sell the bear. 
See bear?, 5 (a). To buy out. (a) To buy off ; redeem. 
Dreading the curse that money may buy out. 
Shak., K. John, iii. 1. 
(6) To purchase all the share or shares of (a person) in a 
stock, fund, or partnership, or all his interest in a busi- 
ness : as, A buys out B. To buy over, to detach by a 
bribe or consideration of some sort from one party and 
attach to the opposite party. To buy the bargain 
dear. See bargain. To buy the refusal of, to give 
money for the right of purchasing at a fixed price at a 
future time. To buy up, to purchase or acquire title 
to the whole of, or the whole accessible supply of, as 
shares, a crop, or a stock of goods in market. 
The noise of this book's suppression made it presently 
be bought up, and turn'd much to the stationer's advan- 
tage. Krfltin, Diary, Aug. 19, 1674. 
II. intrans. To be or become a purchaser. 
I will buy with you, sell with you. Shale., M. of V., i. 3. 
buzzard 
buyable (bi'a-bl), a. [< buy + -able.] Capa- 
ble of being bought, or of being obtained for 
money or other equivalent. 
The spiritual fire which is in that man ... is not buy- 
able nor salable. Carl/ilr, French Rev., II. 1. 2. 
buyer (bi'er), n. One who buys; a purchaser; 
a purchasing agent Buyer's option, in the stock 
exchange, a privilege which a purchaser 1ms of taking a 
stipulated amount of stock at any time during a specified 
number of days: usually stated as buyer 3, 10, 20, etc., 
according to the period agreed on. Often abbreviated to 
6.0. 
buzt, bU2Z 3 t (buz), intcrj. [See buzz 1 , n.] A 
sibilant sound uttered to enjoin silence. 
Pol. The actors are come hither, my lord. 
Ham. Buz, buz! Shak., Hamlet, ii. 2. 
Cry hum 
Thrice, and then buz as often. 
B. Jiinson, Alchemist, i. 1. 
buza (bu'za), .. Same as boza. 
buzz 1 (buz)', v. ; pret. and pp. buzzed, ppr. buzz- 
itiij. [First in early mod. E. ; formed, like 
equiv. biss, bizs (dial.), and It ins, hiz:, q. y., and 
It. buzzicare, whisper, buzzickio, a buzzing, in 
imitation of the sound. Of. Wrr 2 .] I. intrans. 
1. To make a low humming sound, as bees; 
emit a sound like a prolonged utterance of z, 
as by a slow expiration of intonated or sonant 
breath between the tongue and the roof of the 
mouth or the upper teeth, 
A swarm of drones that buzz'd about your head. Pojte. 
2. To whisper buzzingly; speak with a low 
humming voice ; make a low sibilant sound. 
II. trans. 1. To make known by buzzing. 
How would he hang his slender gilded wings, 
And buzz lamenting doings in the air ! 
Shale., Tit. And., iii. 2. 
2. To whisper; spread or report by whispers ; 
spread secretly. 
For I will buzz abroad such prophecies 
That Edward shall be fearful of his life. 
Shak., S Hen. VI., v. 6. 
In the house 
I hear it buzzed there are a brace of doctors, 
A fool, and a physician. 
B. Jonson, Magnetick Lady, ii. 1. 
3. To share equally the last of a bottle of wine, 
when there is not enough for a full glass to 
each of the party. [Eng.] 
Get some more port, . . . whilst I buzz this bottle here. 
Thackeray, Vanity Fair, xxxiv. 
buzz 1 (buz), n. [< buzz 1 , t>.] 1. A continuous 
humming sound, as of bees. 
But the temple was full " inside and out," 
And a buzz kept buzzing all round about, 
Like bees when the day is sunny. 
Hood, Miss Kilmansegg. 
A day was appointed for the grand migration, and on 
that day little Communipaw was in a buzz and a bustle 
like a hive in swarming time. 
Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 129. 
The constant buzz of a fly. Macaulay. 
2. A confused humming sound, such as that 
made by a number of people busily engaged 
in conversation or at work ; the confused hum- 
ming sound of bustling activity or stir; hence, 
a state of activity or ferment: as, the buzz of 
conversation ceased when he appeared; my 
head is all in a buzz. 
There is a certain buzz 
Of a stolen marriage. Maseinger. 
There is a buzz ... all around regarding the sermon. 
Thackeray, Newcomes, I. xi. 
3. A rumor or report. 
The buzz of drugs and minerals and simples, 
Bloodlettings, vomits, purges, or what else 
Is conjur'd up by men of art, to gull 
Liege-people. Ford, Lover's Melancholy, iv. 2. 
'Twas but a buzz devised by him to set your brains 
a-work. Chapman, Widow's Tears, ii. 1. 
buzz 2 !, >* [Origin obscure.] Gossamer. 
For all your virtues 
Are like the buzzes growing in the fields, 
So weakly fastened t'ye by Nature's hand, 
That thus much wind blows all away at once. 
JIT. Field, A Woman is a Weathercock (Dodsley's Old Eng. 
[Plays, ed. Uazlitt, xi. 37). 
buzz 3 t, interj. See buz. 
buzzard (buz'ard), . and a. [Early mod. E. 
bussard, < MEl toward, bosarde, boserd, busherd 
= MD. buysaerd, bttsaerd, busiiard = G. bus- 
xlturt, bussaar, busart, < OF. bucitrt. lni:nrt, F. 
busard (with suffix -ard; cf. It. biizzaf/o (obs.), 
with diff. suffix), a buzzard, < OF. buse, bu;e, 
F. buse = It- *bttzz(i, f. (obs.), a buzzard; ML. 
"butia, f., toitium, neut. (also, after Bom., but- 
zus, bi^us, iiu&iii). for biitin, hii/c/i, I ,. bud n. a buz- 
zard: see Bi/teo.] I. n, 1. In oniitli.: () Any 
hawk of the genus liiiteo or .subfamily Buteo- 
niliin. (See these words.) The common buzzard of 
