(n.) Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
(n.) The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
(v. t.) To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching.
(v. t.) To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
(v. t.) To break up or pulverize, as ores.
(n.) The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.
(n.) A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.
(n.) A male Indian or negro.
(v. i.) To copulate, as bucks and does.
(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.
(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.
(v. t.) To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2.
(n.) A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
(n.) The beech tree.
Example Sentences:
(1) A few days later he tweeted : "People don't usually wanna kill me for one of my movies until after they've paid 12 bucks for it.
(2) He laughs: "I've had a few guys buck up against me, but that's all right because some of us enjoy the bucking."
(3) Social prescribing schemes, by their nature, vary considerably but generally provide a way for GPs and other primary care professionals to offer or signpost to non-clinical referral options instead of, or alongside, clinical ones,” says the report’s author, David Buck.
(4) The dispersion pattern of ticks on deer was aggregated, with twice and three times as many ticks collected from bucks as from does and from fawns, respectively.
(5) Others bucked, including a Dallas County clerk who bluntly remarked that Paxton’s office “does not trump the highest court in the land”.
(6) However, our airports are unable to serve the young bucks that are set to drive the world forward.
(7) For too long the profession has been locked into a ritualistic, buck-passing processing frequently resulting in unorganized efforts on behalf of objects rather than subjects.
(8) He said to me that he would not grow old, both in discussions of his paper on senescence ("I feel bucked when anyone refers to that paper") and discussions touching on personal safety.
(9) The ETU whistleblower who drew the whole matter to the ETU and Turc’s attention said he did so, in part, because he had “always had a concern [the union] didn’t get much bang for our buck”.
(10) The subsequent post-rut profiles of treated bucks were characterized by lower basal plasma LH concentrations, and reduced frequency and amplitude of plasma testosterone surges.
(11) Sexual behavior of the buck, onset of puberty, techniques for semen collection and evaluation, the production of teaser animals, and methods of castration are also discussed.
(12) People moved in who wanted to make a buck out of it all, especially the drugs.
(13) As Buck is not challenging his guilt, the most he could hope for is life without parole, said Radelet.
(14) There’s just inertia and a lack of looking into ourselves to find the solutions.” Recently, Buck had told her brother about fuel money for ambulances being diverted.
(15) The Harris County district court is now considering whether or not to grant Buck a new sentencing hearing.
(16) As Fox caller Joe Buck just said to new viewers "we know where you've been"."
(17) Pratchett left school one year into his A-levels, after he was offered a job on the local paper, the Bucks Free Press , aged 17.
(18) But the buck does not stop with the commission, and it is not an invention of the US trade deal.
(19) It is concluded that Buck screw fixation is a safe and reliable method of treatment for painful Grade I spondylolisthesis due to isthmic spondylolysis in the young active adult with a low complication rate.
(20) Bevan was equally unimpressed and told BBC Radio 5 Live's Sportsweek programme: "The buck stops with Alan.
Jill
Definition:
(n.) A young woman; a sweetheart. See Gill.
Example Sentences:
(1) Jill McDonald, chief marketing officer at McDonald's for northern Europe, said today in one of her first public comments that she tackled the obesity crisis not just as a marketing executive but "as a mother".
(2) Ivanka Trump thinks she is in Beauty and the Beast: more like Macbeth | Jill Abramson Read more Later in the day, the White House spokesman, Sean Spicer, said Trump was due to visit Siemens’ Technische Akademie, a vocational training college, and US architect Peter Eisenmann’s Holocaust memorial.
(3) In the end, Jill feels her decision was vindicated when her marriage broke up after she discovered he was having an affair.
(4) "It's very, very quiet," said Jill Cloke, owner of Upper Lynstone caravan and camping park in Bude, north Cornwall.
(5) Jill Treanor (@jilltreanor) Matt Damon joked as starts with golden globe speech he didn't give ... Before talking of his disbelief about lack of clean water January 21, 2014 Updated at 5.34pm GMT 5.24pm GMT Key event To summarise, the key message from the Pope is that Davos must make serious progress on fixing the economic system, and that business leaders must become more focused on fixing the world's problems.
(6) This week's victims, siblings Stuart and Jill, both love amateur dramatics.
(7) So I’m just really optimistic.” A Morning Consult poll released on Sunday put the four-way split at Hillary Clinton at 39%, Donald Trump at 37%, Johnson at 8% – he was at 9% in the same poll earlier in August – and the Green party candidate, Jill Stein , at 3%.
(8) Anna asks, practically hanging a bell round Jill's neck and herding her into a meadow.
(9) If local residential provision cannot, or indeed should not, be expanded quickly, "there has to be a really huge emphasis on quality rather than cost", argues Jill Sheldrake, director of social care at Together Trust, a charity that runs residential homes in the north-west.
(10) Paul Guard, who lost his parents Roger and Jill Guard , said nine people from his family would attend the service.
(11) First black senator elected in south since Reconstruction Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tim Scott smiles with his mother, Frances Scott, after winning his Senate race over challengers Jill Bossi and Joyce Dickerson in South Carolina.
(12) ‘Washington is offering no choice besides disaster’ Geno, 37, Pennsylvania, voting for Jill Stein I’m in that middle class suffering from decades of neoliberalism – involuntarily in debt, in a dead-end job because of health coverage and few options.
(13) During her pregnancy, it is likely the duchess will be attended to by the Queen's gynaecologist, who is currently Alan Farthing, the former fiance of the murdered television presenter Jill Dando.
(14) As USA was getting ready for a crucial semi-final against Germany this week, they were a little closer to their opponent than they would’ve liked: USA coach Jill Ellis said she almost walked into Germany’s meal room her first day in Montreal.
(15) Jill Treanor: Bank of England committee flags up housing market concerns 1.34pm GMT Photos: Protests in Athens School guards stand with their backs against policemen as they try to open a street.
(16) Rather, it's how women in authority – or, specifically, female bosses – are discussed, because English is incapable of dealing with this crazy female phenomenon, as demonstrated by the palaver following the sacking last week of Jill Abramson as the executive editor of the New York Times.
(17) A famed beauty, she went on to have a string of high-profile lovers, including Arthur Koestler, Cyril Connolly, Kenneth Tynan and Cecil Day-Lewis, who was married to her best friend Jill Balcon at the time.
(18) "[S]ome aspects of Jill's management of our newsroom" is how Sulzberger frames it .
(19) Jill Harth, woman who sued Trump over alleged sexual assault, breaks silence Read more After Access Hollywood host Billy Bush and Trump spend a few minutes making lascivious comments about actor Arianne Zucker, they meet the woman they were just objectifying.
(20) The company's chief executive for northern Europe, Jill McDonald, said the company was expanding despite challenging economic conditions: "Our continued focus on serving quality, affordable food and giving our customers a great experience is enabling us to keep investing in our business and creating jobs."