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- English Word Bunt Definition To swell out; as, the sail bunts.
- English Word Bunt Definition To strike or push with the horns or head; to butt; as, the ram bunted the boy.
- English Word Bunter Definition A woman who picks up rags in the streets; hence, a low, vulgar woman.
- English Word Buntine Definition A thin woolen stuff, used chiefly for flags, colors, and ships' signals.
- English Word Bunting Definition A bird of the genus Emberiza, or of an allied genus, related to the finches and sparrows (family Fringillidae).
- English Word Bunting Definition Alt. of Buntine
- English Word Buntline Definition One of the ropes toggled to the footrope of a sail, used to haul up to the yard the body of the sail when taking it in.
- English Word Bunyon Definition Alt. of Bunion
- English Word Buolt Definition Corrupted form Bolt.
- English Word Buoy Definition A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc.
- English Word Buoy Definition To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up.
- English Word Buoy Definition To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency.
- English Word Buoy Definition To fix buoys to; to mark by a buoy or by buoys; as, to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel.
- English Word Buoy Definition To float; to rise like a buoy.
- English Word Buoyage Definition Buoys, taken collectively; a series of buoys, as for the guidance of vessels into or out of port; the providing of buoys.
- English Word Buoyance Definition Buoyancy.
- English Word Buoyancies Definition of Buoyancy
- English Word Buoyancy Definition The property of floating on the surface of a liquid, or in a fluid, as in the atmosphere; specific lightness, which is inversely as the weight compared with that of an equal volume of water.
- English Word Buoyancy Definition The upward pressure exerted upon a floating body by a fluid, which is equal to the weight of the body; hence, also, the weight of a floating body, as measured by the volume of fluid displaced.
- English Word Buoyancy Definition Cheerfulness; vivacity; liveliness; sprightliness; -- the opposite of heaviness; as, buoyancy of spirits.