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   Buck , n. [Akin to LG. büke, Dan. byg, Sw. byk, G. bauche: cf. It. bucato, Prov. Sp. bugada, F. buée.]
   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. [Obs.]
   Shak.
   
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   Buck, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bucked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Bucking.] [OE. bouken; akin to LG. büken, Dan. byge, Sw. byka, G. bauchen, beuchen; cf. OF. buer. Cf. the preceding noun.]
   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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   (Mining) To break up or pulverize, as ores.
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   Buck , n. [OE. buk, bucke, AS. bucca, bua, he-goat; akin to D. bok, OHG. pocch, G. bock, Ir. boc, W. bwch, Corn. byk; cf. Zend būza, Skr. bukka. √256. Cf. Butcher, n.]
   The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.
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   ☞ A male fallow deer is called a fawn in his first year; a pricket in his second; a sorel in his third; a sore in his fourth; a buck of the first head in his fifth; and a great buck in his sixth. The female of the fallow deer is termed a doe. The male of the red deer is termed a stag or hart and not a buck, and the female is called a hind.
   Brande & C.
   
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   A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.
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   The leading bucks of the day.
   Thackeray.
   
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   A male Indian or negro. [Colloq. U.S.]
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   ☞ The word buck is much used in composition for the names of antelopes; as, bush buck, spring buck.
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   Blue buck. See under Blue. -- Water buck, a South African variety of antelope (Kobus ellipsiprymnus). See Illust. of Antelope.
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   Buck , v. i.
   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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   Buck, v. t.
   (Mil.) 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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   The brute that he was riding had nearly bucked him out of the saddle.
   W. E. Norris.
   
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   Buck, n. A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
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   Buck saw, a saw set in a frame and used for sawing wood on a sawhorse.
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   Buck, n. [See Beech, n.] The beech tree. [Scot.]
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   Buck mast, the mast or fruit of the beech tree.
   Johnson.
   
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   Sawhorse , n. A kind of rack, shaped like a double St. Andrew's cross, on which sticks of wood are laid for sawing by hand; -- called also buck, and sawbuck.
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