Index of English words, starting with "bu"

(1) - Buckle (v. i.) To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close fight; to struggle; to contend.
(2) - Buckle (v. i.) To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.
(3) - Buckle (v. i.) To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall.
(4) - Buckle (v. i.) To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink.
(5) - Buckle (n.) To join in marriage.
(6) - Buckle (n.) To prepare for action; to apply with vigor and earnestness; -- generally used reflexively.
(7) - Buckle (n.) To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted.
(8) - Buckle (n.) To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles; as, to buckle a harness.
(9) - Buckle (n.) A contorted expression, as of the face.
(10) - Buckle (n.) A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.
(11) - Buckle (n.) A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal.
(12) - Buckle (n.) A device, usually of metal, consisting of a frame with one more movable tongues or catches, used for fastening things together, as parts of dress or harness, by means of a strap passing through the frame and pierced by the tongue.

(1) - Buckler (v. t.) To shield; to defend.
(2) - Buckler (n.) A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches.
(3) - Buckler (n.) The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites.
(4) - Buckler (n.) One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.
(5) - Buckler (n.) A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, worn on one of the arms (usually the left) for protecting the front of the body.

(1) - Buckram (v. t.) To strengthen with buckram; to make stiff.
(2) - Buckram (a.) Stiff; precise.
(3) - Buckram (a.) Made of buckram; as, a buckram suit.
(4) - Buckram (n.) A plant. See Ramson.
(5) - Buckram (n.) A coarse cloth of linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise.