buskpointt

The aglet used for the lace of 2. In sculp., the figure of a person in relief, a busk. The floor was strewed with busk - points , silk garters, and hurry. Byschopes and bachelers, and banerettes nobille, That bowes to his banere, buske whene hym lykys. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 69. Many. busked westward for to rob be eft. Rob. of Brunne , Langtoft's Chron. (ed. Hearne), p. 39. busk2t, n. An obsolete form of bush1. As the beast pa ed by, he start out of a buske . Udall , Roister Doister, i. 4. buscar , seek, busk3 (busk), v . i. [Prob. Pg.bus search, hunt up and down: see buscon .] 1t. To seek; hunt up and down; cast about; beat IMG:content-2793.png:[blocks in formation] busk4 (busk), n. [ busc , busque , busk, orig. the whole bodice: used as equiv. to buste (a busk, the quilted belly of a doublet, prop. a bust), of which it is prob. a corruption: see bust2.] 1. A stiffened body-garment, as a doub- let, corset, or bodice. Her long slit sleeves, stiffe buske , puffe, verdin gall, Is all that makes her thus angelic all. feast of first fruits. Would it not be well if we were to celebrate such a busk , or "feast of first fruits," as Bartram describes to have been the custom of the Muccla e Indians? Thoreau , Walden, p. 74. busked (buskt), a. [ busk4 +-ed2.] Wearing a busk; stiffened with a busk. [A var. of bosket , q. v. busket (bus'ket), n. Cf. bushet .] 1. A small bush.-2. Same as bosket.-31. A sprig; a bouquet. Yougthes folke now flocken in every where, To gather May- buskets and smelling brere.