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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1420, 1499-1610, 1666
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Buk, n. Also: buke, buik. [ME. bucke, bukke, and buck, buk, OE. bucca he-goat, buc male deer.]
1. A he-goat. (See also Gait-buk.) c1420 Wynt. i. 824.
Thare adamant … is gude, That nevyr may brek but bukkys blwde 1583 Edinburgh Testaments XII. 172.
xxx gait with ane buk a1605 Montg. Ch. & Slae 37 (R).
The beardit buck clam up the brae a1605 Id. Misc. P. xxiv. 45.
As the buk, vhare he is bound, mon blait 1594 Black Bk. Taymouth 294.
Item of milk gait … Off buikis 1594 Ib. 295.
Greit bukis
2. The male of the fallow deer. a1500 Henr. Fab. 898.
The wyld once, the buk, the welterand brok 1513 Doug. xii. Prol. 177.
The bustuus bukkis rakis furth on raw 15.. Clariodus iv. 1776.
The bukis go bak then in the swyre Be two and thrie a1568 Scott xxxiv. 72.
I hald ȝe want bot hornis, As bukkis in belling tyme a1578 Pitsc. I. 324/19.
He was determinat that he wald slay ane fatt buke or tua ffor his plesour 1600 Acts IV. 203/2.
His maiestie passing to the hunting of the buk 1600 Ib. 204/2.
Schortlie befoir the slaying of the buke c 1610 Rep. Hist. MSS., Var. Coll. V. 117.
Half ane scoir of fallow deir, thairoff iij bukkis
3. Blind buk, applied to Cupid. (Cf. Buk-hid.) a1568 Scott xxxiii. 25.
Blynd buk! bot at the bound [persons] thow schutis
4. pl. Buckskin gloves. 1666 Thanes of Cawdor 320.
1 pr. of bukes for his own hand with linning
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