Definition of Buck
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(n.) Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
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(n.) The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
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(v. t.) To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching.
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(v. t.) To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
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(v. t.) To break up or pulverize, as ores.
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(n.) The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.
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(n.) A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.
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(n.) A male Indian or negro.
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(v. i.) To copulate, as bucks and does.
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(v. i.) 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.
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(v. t.) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.
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(v. t.) To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2.
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(n.) A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
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(n.) The beech tree.
Synonyms of Buck
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Antonyms of Buck
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