Part 1438

<hw>Bu*bon"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to a bubo or buboes; characterized by buboes.</def>

<h1>Bubonocele</h1> <Xpage=187>

<hw>Bu*bon"o*cele</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ groin + <?/ tumor: cf. F. <ets>bubonoc\'8ale</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>An inguinal hernia; esp. that incomplete variety in which the hernial pouch descends only as far as the groin, forming a swelling there like a bubo.</def>

<h1>Bubukle</h1> <Xpage=187>

<hw>Bu"bu*kle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A red pimple.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Buccal</h1> <Xpage=187>

<hw>Buc"cal</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>bucca</ets> cheek: cf. F. <ets>buccal</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>Of or pertaining to the mouth or cheeks.</def>

<h1>Buccaneer</h1> <Xpage=187>

<hw>Buc`ca*neer"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>boucanier</ets>, fr. <ets>boucaner</ets> to smoke or broil meat and fish, to hunt wild beasts for their skins, <ets>boucan</ets> a smoking place for meat or fish, gridiron for smoking: a word of American origin.]</ety> <def>A robber upon the sea; a pirate; -- a term applied especially to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on the Spaniards in America in the 17th and 18th centuries.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>bucanier</asp>.]</altsp>

<note>&hand; Primarily, one who dries and smokes flesh or fish after the manner of the Indians. The name was first given to the French settlers in Hayti or Hispaniola, whose business was to hunt wild cattle and swine.</note>

<h1>Buccaneer</h1> <Xpage=187>

<hw>Buc`ca*neer"</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical adventurer or sea robber.</def>

<h1>Buccaneerish</h1> <Xpage=187>

<hw>Buc`ca*neer"ish</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Like a buccaneer; piratical.</def>

<h1>Buccinal</h1> <Xpage=187>

<hw>Buc"ci*nal</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>bucina</ets> a crooked horn or trumpet.]</ety> <def>Shaped or sounding like a trumpet; trumpetlike.</def>

<h1>Buccinator</h1> <Xpage=187>

<hw>Buc`ci*na"tor</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L., a trumpeter, fr. <ets>bucinare</ets> to sound the trumpet.]</ety> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>A muscle of the cheek; -- so called from its use in blowing wind instruments.</def>

<h1>Buccinoid</h1> <Xpage=187>

<hw>Buc"ci*noid</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Buccinum</ets> + <ets>-oid</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Resembling the genus Buccinum, or pertaining to the <spn>Buccinid\'91</spn>, a family of marine univalve shells. See <er>Whelk</er>, and <er>Prosobranchiata</er>.</def>

<h1>Buccinum</h1> <Xpage=187>

<hw>Buc"ci*num</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L., a trumpet, a trumpet shell.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A genus of large univalve mollusks abundant in the arctic seas. It includes the common whelk (<spn>B. undatum</spn>).</def>

<h1>Bucentaur</h1> <Xpage=187>

<hw>Bu*cen"taur</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/; ox + <?/ centaur.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A fabulous monster, half ox, half man.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <ety>[It. <ets>bucentoro</ets>.]</ety> <def>The state barge of Venice, used by the doge in the ceremony of espousing the Adriatic.</def>

<h1>Buceros</h1> <Xpage=187>

<hw>Bu"ce*ros</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ horned like an ox; <?/ ox + <?/ horn.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A genus of large perching birds; the hornbills.</def>