Part 1474

<h1>Buntline</h1> <Xpage=192>

<hw>Bunt"line</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[2d <ets>bunt + line</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>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.</def>

<i>Totten.</i>

<h1>Bunyon, Bunion</h1> <Xpage=192>

<hw><hw>Bun"yon</hw>, <hw>Bun"ion</hw><hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. Prov. E. <ets>bunny</ets> a small swelling, fr. OF. <ets>bugne</ets>, It. <ets>bugna</ets>, <ets>bugnone</ets>. See <er>Bun</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>An enlargement and inflammation of a small membranous sac (one of the <i>burs\'91 muscos\'91</i>), usually occurring on the first joint of the great toe.</def>

<h1>Buoy</h1> <Xpage=192>

<hw>Buoy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[D. <ets>boei</ets> buoy, fetter, fr. OF. <ets>boie</ets>, <ets>buie</ets>, chain, fetter, F. <ets>bou\'82e</ets> a buoy, from L. <ets>boia</ets>. "<ets>Boiae</ets> genus vinculorum tam ferreae quam ligneae." <ets>Festus</ets>. So called because chained to its place.]</ety> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>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.</def>

<cs><col>Anchor buoy</col>, <cd>a buoy attached to, or marking the position of, an anchor.</cd> -- <col>Bell buoy</col>, <cd>a large buoy on which a bell is mounted, to be rung by the motion of the waves.</cd> -- <col>Breeches buoy</col>. <cd>See under <er>Breeches</er>.</cd> -- <col>Cable buoy</col>, <cd>an empty cask employed to buoy up the cable in rocky anchorage.</cd> -- <col>Can buoy</col>, <cd>a hollow buoy made of sheet or boiler iron, usually conical or pear-shaped.</cd> -- <col>Life buoy</col>, <cd>a float intended to support persons who have fallen into the water, until a boat can be dispatched to save them.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Nut</col> &or; <col>Nun buoy</col></mcol>, <cd>a buoy large in the middle, and tapering nearly to a point at each end.</cd> -- <col>To stream the buoy</col>, <cd>to let the anchor buoy fall by the ship's side into the water, before letting go the anchor.</cd> -- <col>Whistling buoy</col>, <cd>a buoy fitted with a whistle that is blown by the action of the waves.</cd></cs>

<h1>Buoy</h1> <Xpage=192>

<hw>Buoy</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Buoyed</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Buoying</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with <i>up</i>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency.</def>

<blockquote>Those old prejudices, which <b>buoy</b> up the ponderous mass of his nobility, wealth, and title. <i>Burke.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To fix buoys to; to mark by a buoy or by buoys; <as>as, to <ex>buoy</ex> an anchor; to <ex>buoy</ex> or <ex>buoy off</ex> a channel.</as></def>

<blockquote>Not one rock near the surface was discovered which was not <b>buoyed</b> by this floating weed. <i>Darwin.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Buoy</h1> <Xpage=192>

<hw>Buoy</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To float; to rise like a buoy.</def> "Rising merit will <i>buoy</i> up at last."

<i>Pope.</i>

<h1>Buoyage</h1> <Xpage=192>

<hw>Buoy"age</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Buoys, taken collectively; a series of buoys, as for the guidance of vessels into or out of port; the providing of buoys.</def>

<h1>Buoyance</h1> <Xpage=192>

<hw>Buoy"ance</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Buoyancy.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Buoyancy</h1> <Xpage=192>

<hw>Buoy"an*cy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Buoyancies</plw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>.</plu> <p><b>1.</b> <def>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.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Physics)</fld> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>Such are <b>buoyancies</b> or displacements of the different classes of her majesty's ships. <i>Eng. Cyc.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Cheerfulness; vivacity; liveliness; sprightliness; -- the opposite of <ant>heaviness</ant>; <as>as, <ex>buoyancy</ex> of spirits</as>.</def>

<h1>Buoyant</h1> <Xpage=192>

<hw>Buoy"ant</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Buoy</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt> & <ets>i</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Having the quality of rising or floating in a fluid; tending to rise or float; <as>as, iron is <ex>buoyant</ex> in mercury</as>.</def> "<i>Buoyant</i> on the flood."