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A yellow cylindrical mass of egg capsule of certain species of whelks (Buccinum), which resembles an ear of maize.
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The external fold, or folds, of the soft, exterior membrane of the body of a mollusk. It usually forms a cavity inclosing the gills. See Illusts. of Buccinum, and Byssus.
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A muscle of the cheek; -- so called from its use in blowing wind instruments.
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A lawless military adventurer, especially one in quest of plunder; a freebooter; -- originally applied to buccaneers infesting the Spanish American coasts, but introduced into common English to designate the followers of Lopez in his expedition to Cuba in 1851, and those of Walker in his expedition to Nicaragua, in 1855.
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The muscular locomotive organ of a mollusk. It is a median organ arising from the ventral region of body, often in the form of a flat disk, as in snails. See Illust. of Buccinum.
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Resembling the genus Buccinum, or pertaining to the Buccinidae, a family of marine univalve shells. See Whelk, and Prosobranchiata.
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A powerful instrument of brass, curved somewhat like the Roman buccina, or tuba.
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A large spiral marine shell, esp. the common whelk. See Buccinum.
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An American swan (Olor buccinator) which has a very loud note.
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Of or pertaining to the mouth or cheeks.
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One who plunders or pillages without the authority of national warfare; a member of a predatory band; a pillager; a buccaneer; a sea robber.
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Any one numerous species of large marine gastropods belonging to Buccinum and allied genera; especially, Buccinum undatum, common on the coasts both of Europe and North America, and much used as food in Europe.
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A bird of the family Bucconidae, allied to the Cuckoos, having a large, conical beak swollen at the base, and bearded with five bunches of stiff bristles; the puff bird. It inhabits tropical America and Africa.
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Like a buccaneer; piratical.
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A robber upon the sea; a pirate; -- a term applied especially to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on the Spaniards in America in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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Shaped or sounding like a trumpet; trumpetlike.
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The opening through which an animal receives food; the aperture between the jaws or between the lips; also, the cavity, containing the tongue and teeth, between the lips and the pharynx; the buccal cavity.
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A buccaneer; an American pirate. See Flibuster.
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A genus of large univalve mollusks abundant in the arctic seas. It includes the common whelk (B. undatum).
v. i.
To act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical adventurer or sea robber.
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