(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.
Puck
Definition:
(n.) A celebrated fairy, "the merry wanderer of the night;" -- called also Robin Goodfellow, Friar Rush, Pug, etc.
(n.) The goatsucker.
Example Sentences:
(1) A good example is Apple TV: Can it possibly generate real money at $100 a puck?
(2) At stake: rice cakes, a gift basket, and a somewhat condescending hockey puck.
(3) 3.21am BST Puck drops... We're back, and we have action.
(4) 2.44am BST Kings 3-3 Blackhawks, 2:42, 2nd period A two-on one break for the Hawks - Shaw is skating with the puck across the blue line, passes to Niklas Hjalmarsson, who gives it back, cross ice to Shaw who fires and is denied!
(5) Dadd's three paintings Puck (1841), A Fairy – Sunset (1841-42) and Come unto these Yellow Sands (1842) are elegant and precise – the Puck is a baby, sitting on a mushroom in moonlight under a columbine dripping with dewdrops, among grasses also beaded with water, and watches much smaller naked dancers cavorting below him.
(6) Jagr nearly won it for Boston in the closing seconds of the second OT when the puck deflected off him and hit the post.
(8) 1.41am BST Rangers 0-1 Kings, 09:01, 1st period Hagelin puts the puck on net, Quick saves.
(9) Jeff Carter’s puck passed the line with approximately 0.07 seconds left in the first, delivering a devastating blow to New York.
(10) Also, the Kings were able to force key turnovers, none more important than Girardi's misstep that led to the winning goal from Justin Williams - the Rangers simply must be more careful with the puck to win.
(11) It was also possible to demonstrate that for a given speed of the puck the more flexible stick required a smaller force than the rigid one.
(12) Galactokinase deficient fibroblasts are not distinguishable from galactosemic fibroblasts by a test suggested earlier by Hill & Puck (1973).
(13) Pucks flew across the crease as the Habs ran heavy traffic around the netminder.
(14) 3.56am BST Kings 1-2 Rangers, 1:11, 3rd period Martinez shoots - Pearson redirects - where's the puck?
(15) But King was in the crease and The King could not move to get the puck - the refs ignore the obvious interference and the goal stands!
(16) That's what we're about to find out, but before the puck drops, and even after, why not join the blog, because, as we like to say, our blog is your blog.
(17) Now another chance for LA - off the faceoff - Brown gets the puck behind the pack, he's in front of the net but fires into the chest of Lundqvist!
(18) 1.31am BST Kings 0-0 Rangers, 13:44, first period Now it's Anze Kopitar carrying, carrying, behind the net, controlling, and now he's trying to wrap around, but it's off the blade of his stick and the puck slides across the crease.
(19) 3.17am BST Kings 3-0 Rangers, 16:57, third period The Kings carry the puck for a decent chunk of the advantage, mostly thanks to Anze Kopitar.
(20) Finally the ref stops play - but the puck is just inches in front of the goal line!