Bub"ble shell` (&?;). (Zoöl.) A marine univalve shell of the genus Bulla and allied genera, belonging to the Tectibranchiata.
Bub"bling Jock` (&?;) (Zoöl.) The male wild turkey, the gobbler; -- so called in allusion to its notes.
Bub"bly (&?;), a. Abounding in bubbles; bubbling. Nash.
Bub"by (bb"b), n. [Cf. Prov. G. bübbi, or It. poppa, Pr. popa, OF. poupe, a woman's breast.] A woman's breast. [Low]
Bub"by, n. [A corruption of brother.] Bub; -- a term of familiar or affectionate address to a small boy.
Bu"bo (b"b), n.; pl. Buboes (-bz). [LL. bubo the groin, a swelling in the groin, Gr. boubw`n.] (Med.) An inflammation, with enlargement, of a lymphatic gland, esp. in the groin, as in syphilis.
Bu*bon"ic (b*bn"k), a. Of or pertaining to a bubo or buboes; characterized by buboes.
Bu*bon"o*cele (b*bn"*sl), n. [Gr. boubw`n groin + &?; tumor: cf. F. bubonocèle.] (Med.) An inguinal hernia; esp. that incomplete variety in which the hernial pouch descends only as far as the groin, forming a swelling there like a bubo.
Bu"bu*kle (&?;), n. A red pimple. [R.] Shak.
Buc"cal (&?;), a. [L. bucca cheek: cf. F. buccal.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the mouth or cheeks.
Buc`ca*neer" (&?;), n. [F. boucanier, fr. boucaner to smoke or broil meat and fish, to hunt wild beasts for their skins, boucan a smoking place for meat or fish, gridiron for smoking: a word of American origin.] A robber upon the sea; a pirate; -- a term applied especially to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on the Spaniards in America in the 17th and 18th centuries. [Written also bucanier.]
Primarily, one who dries and smokes flesh or fish after the manner of the Indians. The name was first given to the French settlers in Hayti or Hispaniola, whose business was to hunt wild cattle and swine.
Buc`ca*neer", v. i. To act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical adventurer or sea robber.
Buc`ca*neer"ish, a. Like a buccaneer; piratical.
Buc"ci*nal (&?;), a. [L. bucina a crooked horn or trumpet.] Shaped or sounding like a trumpet; trumpetlike.
||Buc`ci*na"tor (&?;), n. [L., a trumpeter, fr. bucinare to sound the trumpet.] (Anat.) A muscle of the cheek; -- so called from its use in blowing wind instruments.
Buc"ci*noid (&?;), a. [Buccinum + - oid.] (Zoöl.) Resembling the genus Buccinum, or pertaining to the Buccinidæ, a family of marine univalve shells. See Whelk, and Prosobranchiata.
||Buc"ci*num (&?;), n. [L., a trumpet, a trumpet shell.] (Zoöl.) A genus of large univalve mollusks abundant in the arctic seas. It includes the common whelk (B. undatum).
Bu*cen"taur (&?;), n. [Gr. boy^s ox + ke`ntayros centaur.] 1. A fabulous monster, half ox, half man.
2. [It. bucentoro.] The state barge of Venice, used by the doge in the ceremony of espousing the Adriatic.
||Bu"ce*ros (&?;), n. [Gr. boy`kerws horned like an ox; boy^s ox + ke`ras horn.] (Zoöl.) A genus of large perching birds; the hornbills.
Buch"ol*zite (&?;), n. [So called from Bucholz, a German chemist.] (Min.) Same as Fibrolite.
Bu"chu (&?;), n. (Bot.) A South African shrub (Barosma) with small leaves that are dotted with oil glands; also, the leaves themselves, which are used in medicine for diseases of the urinary organs, etc. Several species furnish the leaves.
Buck (bk), n. [Akin to LG. büke, Dan. byg, Sw. byk, G. bauche: cf. It. bucato, Prov. Sp. bugada, F. buée.] 1. Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.