Part 1453

<h1>Bugfish</h1> <Xpage=189>

<hw>Bug"fish`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>The menhaden.</def> <mark>[U.S.]</mark>

<h1>Bugger</h1> <Xpage=189>

<hw>Bug"ger</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>bougre</ets>, fr. LL. <ets>Bulgarus</ets>, a Bulgarian, and also a heretic; because the inhabitants of Bulgaria were infected with heresy. Those guilty of the crime of buggery were called <ets>heretics</ets>, because in the eyes of their adversaries there was nothing more heinous than heresy, and it was therefore thought that the origin of such a vice could only be owing to heretics.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One guilty of buggery or unnatural vice; a sodomite.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A wretch; -- sometimes used humorously or in playful disparagement.</def> <mark></mark>

<h1>Buggery</h1> <Xpage=189>

<hw>Bug"ger*y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>bougrerie</ets>, <ets>bogrerie</ets>, heresy. See <er>Bugger</er>.]</ety> <def>Unnatural sexual intercourse; sodomy.</def>

<h1>Bugginess</h1> <Xpage=189>

<hw>Bug"gi*ness</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Buggy</er>, <tt>a.</tt>]</ety> <def>The state of being infested with bugs.</def>

<h1>Buggy</h1> <Xpage=189>

<hw>Bug"gy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Bug</er>.]</ety> <def>Infested or abounding with bugs.</def>

<h1>Buggy</h1> <Xpage=189>

<hw>Bug"gy</hw>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Buggies</plw>.</plu> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A light one horse two-wheeled vehicle.</def> <mark>[Eng.]</mark>

<blockquote>Villebeck prevailed upon Flora to drive with him to the race in a <b>buggy</b>. <i>Beaconsfield.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A light, four-wheeled vehicle, usually with one seat, and with or without a calash top.</def> <mark>[U.S.]</mark>

<cs><col>Buggy cultivator</col>, <cd>a cultivator with a seat for the driver.</cd> -- <col>Buggy plow</col>, <cd>a plow, or set of plows, having a seat for the driver; -- called also <altname>sulky plow</altname>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Bugle</h1> <Xpage=189>

<hw>Bu"gle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>bugle</ets> buffalo, buffalo's horn, OF. <ets>bugle</ets>, fr. L. <ets>buculus</ets> a young bullock, steer, dim. of <ets>bos</ets> ox. See <er>Cow</er> the animal.]</ety> <def>A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.</def>

<i>E. Phillips.</i>

<h1>Bugle</h1> <Xpage=189>

<hw>Bu"gle</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Bugle</er> a wild ox.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A horn used by hunters.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <def>A copper instrument of the horn quality of tone, shorter and more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the <altname>Kent bugle</altname>.</def>

<h1>Bugle</h1> <Xpage=189>

<hw>Bu"gle</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[LL. <ets>bugulus</ets> a woman's ornament: cf. G. <ets>b\'81gel</ets> a bent piece of metal or wood, fr. the same root as G. <ets>biegen</ets> to bend, E. <ets>bow</ets> to bend.]</ety> <def>An elingated glass bead, of various colors, though commonly black.</def>

<h1>Bugle</h1> <Xpage=189>

<hw>Bu"gle</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Bugle</er> a bead.]</ety> <def>Jet black.</def> "<i>Bugle</i> eyeballs."

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Bugle</h1> <Xpage=189>