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Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of
bleaching, or in which clothes are washed. |
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The cloth or clothes soaked or washed. |
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To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in
bleaching. |
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To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by
beating them on stones in running water. |
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To break up or pulverize, as ores. |
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The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of
goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits. |
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A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy. |
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A male Indian or negro. |
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To copulate, as bucks and does. |
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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. |
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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. |
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To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2. |
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A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck. |
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The beech tree. |
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