Buckstays
a beam held by stays to the exterior of a masonry wall, as that of a furnace or boiler, to keep the adjacent areas of the wall from being forced outward.
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a projecting tooth, especially an upper front tooth. noun (pl) -teeth (derogatory) a projecting upper front tooth n. buck’toothed’ (-tōōtht’) adj.
- Buckyball
Informal. a single molecule of buckminsterfullerene. noun (informal) a ball-like polyhedral carbon molecule of the type found in buckminsterfullerene and other fullerenes buckyball (bŭk’ē-bôl’) See buckminsterfullerene.
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noun (informal) a tube of carbon atoms structurally similar to buckminsterfullerene noun Word Origin
- Bucolic
of or relating to shepherds; pastoral. of, relating to, or suggesting an idyllic rural life. a pastoral poem. Archaic. a farmer; shepherd; rustic. Contemporary Examples How I Write: Scott Spencer Noah Charney March 12, 2014 In Egypt’s Countryside, Vendettas Between Police and Islamists Simmer Mike Giglio, Christopher Dickey October 27, 2013 The Nobel Peace Prize […]
- Bucolics
Eclogues. of or relating to shepherds; pastoral. of, relating to, or suggesting an idyllic rural life. a pastoral poem. Archaic. a farmer; shepherd; rustic. Historical Examples The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch Petrarch The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Emile Zola Ideal Commonwealths Various National Epics Kate Milner Rabb Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary (part […]