buntons (bun tonz)

pl. [Origin unknown.] In mining, timbers or scantling put acro a shaft to divide it into compartments. The in terior faces of the buntons and sets carry the guides which conduct the cages, and on them are also nailed the boards forming the sheathing of the brattice, in case an air-tight bury, to let bleed the bleed to stream To a buoy. See a the anchor is dropped. buoy (boi or böi), v. [ There was heat enough in the air to buoy it [water in the state of vapor] up . Woodward, Nat. Hist. Many a flowing range Of vapour buoy'd the crescent bark. Tennyson , Day-Dream, The Departure. 2. Figuratively, to support or sustain in any sense; especially, to sustain mentally; keep from falling into despondency or discouragement: generally with up. Your good name's perish'd; Not all the world can buoy your reputation. compartment is required. Also called byats and dividers . bunt-whip (bunt'hwip), n. Same as bunt - jigger . bunty (bun'ti), a. [ bunt + -y1.] Infected with smut: applied to wheat and other grain. buntylet, n. See bunting4 . bunya (bun'ya), n. [Anglo-Ind., also bunny a , greeted still buoyed up his spirits. banya , and banyan , banya , Beng. bānyā , baniya : see banian1 , banyan1 .] In India, espe- cially in Bengal, a grain-dealer. The grain-dealer's shop tempts them to loiter, but the experience of previous attempts makes theft hopele ; for the bunny a , with all his years, is very nimble on his legs, and an astonishing good shot with a pipkin. Fletcher and Rowley , Maid in the Mill, iii. 3. The recollection of the applause with which he had been Macaulay , Hist. Eng., X. It is the poem that keeps the language alive, and not the language that buoys up the poem. Lowell, Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 125. 3. To fix buoys in as a direction to mariners: as, to buoy or to buoy off a channel. The channels [of the Rio de la Plata] are badly buoyed , and there are shoals and wrecks on all sides. Lady Bra ey , Voyage of Sunbeam, L. v. To buoy a cable. See cable. II. in trans. To float; rise by reason of lightne . [Rare.] Rising merit will buoy up at last. Pope, E ay on Criticism, 1. 461. IMG:content-2743.png:[graphic] The nut of the bunya - bunya , so prized by the blacks, is buoyage (boi'- or böi'āj), n . [ buoy + -age . ] reserved over a district 30 miles by 12.