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.