Buxos

( Bot.) A genus of plants, order Euphor biacea, consisting of evergreen shrubs or small trees with opposite leaves, entire at the margins, and easily split into two plates. The flowers, which are very small, grow in little axillary clusters, the male and female flowers being distinct, but borne on the same plant. There are only two species known, namely, B. sempervirens and B. balearica. The former, which is the com "I found the whole outer room in a buzz of politics."-Add is on. Buzzard, ( buz'erd ,) n. [Fr. busard , from Ger. bu aar ; said to be from the verb to buzz ; Pers. bauz , a hawk.] ( Zool .) The popular name of the predatory birds forming the genus BUTEO, q. v. -A blockhead; a numskull; a dunce. "Those blind buzzards, who,... would neither learn themselves nor could teach others."- Ascham . -a. Stupid; thickheaded. (R.) Buzzardet, n . ( Zool . ) A species of Buzzard. Buzzard's Bay, on the S. coast of Ma achusetts, separated from Vineyard Sound by the Elizabeth Islands, and containing the harbors of New Bedford, Fair Haven, Rochester, and Wareham. It is 30 m. long, with a mean width of 7 m. Buzzardsville, in Indiana , a village of Madison co., 44 m. N.N.E. of Indianapolis. Buz'zer, n. One who buzzes; a secret whisperer. "And wants not buzzers to infest his ear With petulant speeches of his father's death." - Shaks. Buz'zing, n. A humming noise; ince ant talk in an undertone. Buz'zingly, adv. With a low, murmurous sound, like that of bees. IMG:content-0821.png:[blocks in formation] tain; to realize; as, to come by a fortune. - One by one, day by day, piece by piece. Each day, piece, thing, person, ., singly, or severally. To do by. To behave or act towards; to treat; as, he has done nobly by me. To stand by. To aid, support, uphold, sustain"; as, I will stand by him to the last. - Twenty feet by ten, a length or distance measuring twenty feet one way and ten the other. By the head, or sten . ( Naut .) Said of a ve el when her head is lower in the water than the stern; or conversely. - By the lee. The position of a ship when going free, or, in other words, when she has fallen off so much from the wind, as to bring it round her stern, and take the sails aback on the other quarter. By the run. To let go altogether, or at once; as, to let a sail go by the run. Opposed to slacking , or letting go gradually. - Good -by, see GOOD-BYE. - South west by South. Further South than South-west. (Used in telling off the points of a compa .) By, adv. Near; beside; in presence; as, he was not by at the time. "Pris'ners and witne es were waiting by, These had been taught to swear, and those to die."- Roscommon. -Pa ing; going or gone past; as, the troops have pa ed by. "I did hear use. By, a . Something out of the direct or common way; aside; anything of a collateral or incidental nature; as, a by -law. (Used in composition generally as a prefix.) By, Bye, n. Something not directly the object of; an object by the way, or of secondary importance; as, a bye at cricket. By the by. Digre ively; in pa ing; apropos or touching the matter in view, or subject of remark. By'ard, n. ( Mining .) A piece of leather worn acro the breast by those who drag the sledges in coal-pits. By'berry, in Pennsylvania , a former township of Philadelphia co., 14 m. N.E. of the State-House; now included within the limits of the city.