buckish (bukish)

[ Baltimore Buckeye. tons), decked over, and with a cabin aft, used in oyster-fishing in Chesapeake Bay. Also called bugeye. canoe. The buckeyes... are an exaggeration of the dugout The primitive builder bored two holes, one on each side of the stem, through which to pay out his cables. These were simply two round holes, bored with a large auger, and, when the boat was coming head on, resembled to the fancy of the negroes the eyes of a buck. C. P. Kunhardt , Small Yachts, p. 234. Spanish buckeye, Ungnadia speciosa , a tree of Texas and Mexico, nearly related to Esculus . buck-eyed (buk'id), a . Having a bad or speckled eye: said of a horse. buck-fever (buk'fē"ver), n. Nervous agitation of a hunter upon the approach of deer or other large game. Also called buck - ague . buck finch (buk'finch), n. [Cf. Dan. bogfinke .] A name for the chaffinch, chaffinch, Fringilla cælebs. buck heading (buk' hed"ing), n. Cutting off live hedge-thorns, fence-height. Grose. [North. Eng.]