buxom (buksum)

[Early mod. E. also buck some, bucksom, Twise was he seene in soaring Eagles shape, And with wide winges to beat the buxome ayre. Spenser, F. Q., III. xi. 34. Wing silently the buxom air. Milton , P. L., ii. 842. The crew with merry shouts their anchors weigh, Then ply their oars, and brush the buxom sea. Dryden, Cym. and Iph., 1. 613. 21. Obedient; obsequious; submi ive. To be ever buxom and obedient. Foxe. "For-thi," seid Samuel to Saul, "god hym-self hoteth The, be boxome at his biddynge his wille to fulfille." Piers Plowman (B), iii. 263. He did tread down and disgrace all the English, and set up and countenance the Irish; thinking thereby to make them more tractable and buxom to the government. Spenser, State of Ireland. 3. Having health and comeline together with a lively disposition; healthy and cheerful; brisk; jolly; lively and vigorous. IMG:content-2819.png:[blocks in formation] Buxom health of rosy hue. Gray , Ode on a Prospect of Eton College. 51. Amorous; wanton. Bailey. buxomt, v. i. [ME. buxomen; To buxom to holi churche, and to al the land also. St. Edm. Conf . (Early Eng. Poems, ed. Furnivall), 1. 445. buxomly (buk's um-li), adv. [ To condyte me fro Cytee to Cytee, gif it were nede, and buxomly to resceyve me and my Companye. Mandeville , Travels, p. 82. And grace axed of god [that to graunten it is] redy [To hem] that boxomeliche biddeth it and ben in wille to amenden hem. Piers Plowman (B), xii. 195. 2. In a buxom manner; briskly; vigorously. buxomne (buk's um-nes), n. [ 740 Bote I Rule thus thi Reame Rend out my Ribbes! gif hit beo so that Boxumne e beo at myn a ent. Piers Plowman (A), iv. 150. 2. The quality of being buxom; briskne ; liveline ; healthy vigor or plumpne . Buxus (buk's us), n . [L., the box-tree, > E. box1 , q. v.] A genus of plants whose species afford the valuable hard wood called boxwood; the box. It is the most northern arborescent plant of the natural order Euphorbiaceæ. B. semper virens, the common box, is a native of Europe and Asia, and is found from the Atlantic to China and Japan, sometimes attaining a height of 20 or 30 feet, though the trunk is seldom more than 8 or 10 inches in diameter. The finest quality of boxwood is from the Levant and regions about the Black Sea, and is largely employed in wood-engraving, for mathematical and musical instruments, and for turning. There are numerous varieties in cultivation for ornamental purposes, including the common dwarf bushy form used for garden-edgings. A branch of Box ( Buxus sempervirens). buy (bi), v.; pret. and pp. bought, ppr. buying. [Early mod. E. also buye, by, bie, bye, His [Emerson's] plan for the extirpation of slavery was to buy the slaves from the planters. O. W. Holmes, Emerson, viii. Hence-2. To get, acquire, or procure for any kind of equivalent: as, to buy favor with flattery. Euill men take great payn to buy Hell - and all for worldly pleasure sure. Dearer then good men buy heauen, for God is their treaRhodes, Boke of Nurture (E. E. T. S.), p. 89. I have bought Golden opinions from all sorts of people. Shak., Macbeth, i. 7. 3. To bribe; corrupt or pervert by giving a consideration; gain over by money, etc. There is one thing which the most corrupt senates are unwilling to sell; and that is the power which makes them worth buying . Macaulay , Sir William Temple. 4. To be sufficient to purchase or procure; serve as an equivalent in procuring: as, gold cannot buy health.- 5+. To aby; suffer. What? schal I buy it on my fleisch so deere? Chaucer , Prol. to Wife of Bath's Tale, 1. 167. Bought note, bought and sold notes. See note. To buy a borough. See borough1 . - To buy againt, to redeem. See again buy . God save yow, that boughte agayn mankynde. Chaucer , Pardoner's Tale, 1. 304. To buy at a bargain. See bargain . - To buy in. (a) To purchase for one's self, especially shares or stock: op- posed to sell out . She ordered her husband to buy in a couple of fresh coach-horses. Steele, Tatler, No. 109. What minor and rival companies stood in the way they bought in . W. Barrows , Oregon, p. 38. (b) To buy for the owner at a public sale, especially when an insufficient price is offered. - To buy into, to obtain an interest or footing in by purchase, as of the shares of a joint-stock company, and formerly in England of a commi ion in a regiment. To buy in under the rule, in the stock exchange , to purchase stock on behalf of a member to enable him to meet a short contract, or to return stock which had been borrowed, on notice being given to the chairman, who makes the purchase. - To buy off. (a) In the English service, to obtain a release from military service by a payment. (b) To get rid of the opposition of by payment; purchase the non-intervention of; bribe. buzzard