buckmastt (bukmast)

[ The bores fedynge is prop relic he ycleped akyr [acorn] of ookys berynge, and bukmast . MS . Bodl ., p. 546. ( Hall i well .) buck-moth (buk'môth), n . A name given to a delicate crape-winged moth, Hemileuca mai a (Drury), of the family Bombycid a : so called, it Male Buck-moth ( Hemileuca mai a ) and Eggs, natural size. is said, on account of its flying late in the fall, when the deer run. The larvæ feed on the oak and willow, and the eggs are laid in naked rings around their twigs.