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(1):

(v. t.) To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2.

(2):

(n.) The beech tree.

(3):

(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.

(4):

(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.

(5):

(n.) The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.

(6):

(n.) Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.

(7):

(n.) A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.

(8):

(v. t.) To break up or pulverize, as ores.

(9):

(n.) A male Indian or negro.

(10):

(v. t.) To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.

(11):

(n.) A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.

(12):

(v. i.) To copulate, as bucks and does.

(13):

(n.) The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.

(14):

(v. t.) To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; - a process in bleaching.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Buck'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​b/buck.html. 1828.
 
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