How brief the life of man 
Runs his erring pilgrimage! 
That the firetching of a (pan 
Buckles in his- fu!n of age. Ehakcfpcare. 
To BUC'KLE. v. n. [ bucken, Ger.] To bend.; to bow : 
The wretch, whole fever-weaken’d joints, 
Like ftrengthlefs hinges, buckle under life, 
impatient of his fit, breaks like a fire 
Out of his keeper’s arms. ShaXefpeare. 
To Bucic-le to. To apply to; to attend. See the abhve, 
fecond fettle.—This is to be done in children, by trying 
them, when they are by lazinefs unbent, or by avocation 
bent another way, and endeavouring to make them buckle to 
the law. Locke. 
To Bt/cki.E with. To engage with ; to encounter; to 
join in a dole light, like men locked or buckled together. 
—For (ingle combat, thou (halt buckle with me. Shakcjp. 
Yet thou, they fay, for marriage doft provide ; 
Is this an age to buckle with a bride ? Dryden. 
BUCK'LKjR,/. [ bwccled, Welfh ; boudicr, French.] A 
fhield ; a defenfive weapon buckled on the arm.—This 
medal compliments the emperor as the Romans did dicta¬ 
tor Fabius, when they called him the bud/tkr of Rome. 
* Addijon. 
He took my arms, and while I forc’d my way 
T hrough troops of foes, which did our palfage Hay, 
My buckler o’er my aged father calt, 
Still fighting, (fill defending, as Lpaft. Dryden. 
The buckle!' was worn on the left arm, and compofed of 
wickers woven together, or wood of the lighted fort, cover¬ 
ed witli hides, and fortified with, plates of brafs or other 
metal. The figure was fometimes round, fometunes oval, 
and fometimes nearly fquare. Mod of them were curioully 
adorned' with all forts of figures of birds and beads, as 
eagles, lions, See. nor of thele only, but of the gods, the 
celedial bodies, and all the works of nature; which cudom 
was derived from the heroic times, and from them com¬ 
municated to the Grecians, Romans, &c. The feu turn, 
or Roman buckler, was of wood, the parts being joined 
together with little plates of iron, and the whole covered 
with a bull’s hide. An iron plate went about it without, 
to keep off blows ; and another within, to hinder it from 
taking.any damage by lying on the ground. In the mid¬ 
dle was an iron bofs or umbo jutting out, to glance off 
dones and darts ; and fometimes to prefs violently upon 
the enemy, and drive all before them. The clypei were 
lefs, and quite round, belonging more properly to other 
nations, though for fome little time ufed by the Romans. 
The feuta were of two kinds ; the ovata- and the imbri- 
csta : the former is-a plain oval figure^ the other oblong, 
and bending inward like a halt cylinder. Polybius makes 
the feuta four feet long, and Plutarch calls them wo< 5 V,£eij } 
reaching down to the feet. It is very probable they co¬ 
vered almoft the whole body, fince in Livy we meet with 
foldiers who dood on the guard, jometimes deeping with 
their head reclined on their fhield, having fixed the other 
part of it in'the earth. Thofe called votive bucklers were 
confecrated to the gods, and hung up in their temples, 
either in commemoration of dime hero, or as a thanksgiv¬ 
ing fora victory obtained over an enemy. Hence the cuf- 
toin of hanging up trophies and colours in our churches. 
To BUCK'LER, v. a. To fupport; to defend : 
Fear not, fweet wench, they fhall not touch thee, Kate; 
■ I’ll buckler -tiled againd a million.' Shakffpcarc. 
BUCK'MAST,/! The fruit or mad of the beech tree. 
BUCK'RAH, a town of Hindoodan, in the fubahof 
Oude : eighteen miles north-weft of Gooracpour. 
BUCK'RAH, a to n of Hindoodan, in the country of 
Bahar : twenty-five miles north of Patna. 
BUCK'RAM, f. \_bougran , Fr.] A fort of drong linen 
cloth, lliffened with gum, ufed by tailors and Haymakers. 
e u d 
BUCK'RAMS, f. The fame with wild garlic. 
BUCKS HARBOUR, a bay of the Atlantic; on the 
fouth eoalt ofthe country of Maine, in the'United States 
ol America. Lat. 44. 42. N. Ion. 63. 34. W. Greenwich. 
BUCK’SH E\ , J. The Indian name for the-pavmader- 
geiieral ot the forces ; all'o,' the commandant of a dilirict, 
or of a body of troops’in the field. 
BUCK'STALL, J. A toil- to take^ deer; which by tlie 
dature 19 Henry VII. c. 11. is prohibited, under certain 
penalties, to be ufed or kept by arty perfon or perfons, ex¬ 
cept thofe who are polfeffed of a park. 
BUCO'LIC, /. [ bucolicjucs , Fr. bucolica, I.at. of @ 8 y.o\'& y 
Gr. a cow-herd. ] A fpecies of poetry relating to iliep- 
herds and padoral affairs, which, according to the inbft 
generally-received opinion, took its rife in Sicily. Buco¬ 
lics, fays Veiliiis, have lome conformity with comedy. 
I.ike it, they are pictures and imitations of ordinary life ; 
with this difference, however, that comedy reprefents the 
manners of the-inhabitants of cities, and bucolics the oc¬ 
cupations of country people.. The hexameter verfe is'the 
mod proper for bucolics in thf Greek and Latin tongues. 
Mofchus, Bion, Theocritus, and Virgil, are the mod re¬ 
nowned of the anciynt bucolic poets. 
BUCGR'TA, a river of Italy, which runs into the fea, 
near Pagliapoli, in Calabria Ultra. 
BUCY' LE LONG, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of tlie Aifne, and’ chief place of a canton, in the 
didrift of SoiUbns : one league north-ead of Soiffons. 
BUC'ZA, a town of Lithuania, in' the palatinate of 
Brzefc ; ninety miles ead of Brzefc. 
BUD, f. \_bouton, Fr. ] The fird liioot of a plant; a 
gem. — Infebts wound the tender buds, with a long hollow 
trunk, and depofit an egg in tlie hole, with a (harp cor¬ 
roding liquor, that caufeth a fwelliiig in the leaf, and clo- 
feth the orifice. Bentley. 
To BUD, v. 11. To put forth young flioots, or gems.— 
Bud forth as a rofe growing by tlie brook of the field. Eccl. 
To' rife as a gem from the dalk : 
Heav’n gave him all at once, then fnatch’d away, 
Ere mortals all his beauties could furvey : - 
Juft like that flower that buds and withers in a day. Dryden „ 
To be in the bloom, or growing: 
Young budding virgin, fair and frefli and fweet, 
Whither away, or where is thy abode? Shakefpeare. 
To BUD, v. a. To inoculate; to ‘graff by inferting a 
bud into the rind of another tree.—Of apricots, the lamed 
is much improved by budding upon a peach (lock. Temple . 
BU'DA, or Often, the capital city of Lower Hun¬ 
gary, lituated on an eminence, on the wed fide of the Da¬ 
nube, oppolite Ped, formerly the refidence of the Hunga¬ 
rian kings. In the year 1526, the Turkidi fultan. Solyma.n 
the Magnificent appeared before the city with a very nu¬ 
merous army ; and, after battering the walls about three 
hours, his troops fealed them, and,-entering the town fvvord 
in hand, butchered all the inhabitants they could find. 
The cadle capitulated-; but its garrifon were made pri- 
foners. In 1526, it was retaken by the archduke, and in 
1529 Solyman became mader of it again. In the years 
i 53 °> I 54 °> L 54 2 > 1598, i. 599 > 1602, and 1603, fruitlefs 
attempts were made to wred it from the Turks. In the 
year 1684, the duke of Lorrain inveded it. The garrifon 
at this time confided of iS,ooo men, commanded by Cara- 
Mehemet. Ballia, a brave and expert officer, who knew 
better how to make a regular defence than the Turks ufu- 
ally did. The belieged made feveral fivilies, with good 
fu.ceefs, and in general defended .themfelves much better 
than.the Turks had ever done before. They even reptil- 
fed the Imperialilts in a general aflault ; which misfor¬ 
tune, and a mortal dyfentery that reigned in the army, 
obliged the duke of Lorrain to raife the fiege, after he 
had lod 30,006 men to no purpofe. In June 1686, the 
diike of Lorrain again laid fiege to Buda. On tlie 21ft, 
. i his 
