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 123 Buck. A kind of minute fungus 1 infesting ill-kept dairies. It is called " the buck " and the dairy con- tents become spoilt by it. BucJiar is Celtic Cornish for, bucked milk, sour milk. Fryce. Also a name given to the spittle fly. M.A.c. Bucking. Breaking up the ore into small pieces. Buckle to. To set about anything in earnest. Buckle up to. To defy or "show fight," also, to court. Bucha, or Bucca, and Bucha-boO. A ghost, hob- goblin, or scare-crow. Bucca is a Celtic Cornish word for ghost. Buck"horn. Whiting salted and dried. c. (Buck- thorn. M.A.C.) Bucky-how. A boy's game resembling " touch tim- ber." M.A.C. Buddie, A mining term. It is " a pit seven feet long," three wide, and two deep, for washing the ore in. Borlase. In Celtic Cornish hudclal, to buddle, to drown. Pryce, Buddie. A bubble. Buddling. Washing ore. Bud-picker. A bullfinch. PoUvheU. Buffiehead. A thickhead, a fool. "Yew gashly bufflehead." Bulderin. Hot and perspiring. (Boldering, lowering weather. Polwhele,)