"A man and woman lying on the same bed with their clothes on; an expedient practised in America on a scarcity of beds, where, on such occasions, husbands and parents frequently permitted travellers to bundle with their wives and daughters."-Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Bundling is said to be practised in Wales. Whatever may have been the custom in former times, I do not think bundling is now practised in the United States.

Mr. Masson describes a similar custom in Central Asia : "Many of the Afghan tribes have a custom in wooing, similar to what in Wales is known as bundling-up, and which they term namzat bazė. The lover presents himself at the house of his betrothed with a suitable gift, and in return is allowed to pass the night with her, on the understanding that innocent endearments are not to be exceeded.-Journeys in Balochistan, Afghanistan, &c. Vol. III. p. 287.

TO BUNT. To push with horns; to butt. This word is given by Webster, but is not in the English dictionaries. Mr. Hartshorne notices this word in his Shropshire Glossary. BURGALOO. A kind of pear.

BURGOO. A seafaring dish made with oat meal and water, seasoned with salt, butter, and sugar.-Falconer's Marine Dict.

BURNT HIS FINGERS. When a person has suffered loss by a speculation, he is said to have burnt his fingers. It is used in the same sense in England.

We were sick of speculating in cotton. We had burnt our fingers once with the article, and would not try it again.--Perils of Pearl Street, p. 165. BURR-STONE. A species of silex or quartz occurring in morphous masses, partly compact, but containing many irregular cavities. It is used for mill-stones.-Cleveland's Mineralogy.

BUSHWHACKER.

A raw countryman, a green-horn.

Do you think all our eastern dignitaries combined could have compelled bushwhackers to wear coats and shoes in recitation rooms.young

-Carlton's

BUSS. A kiss. This word, once of sufficient dignity to be

used by our dramatic authors, has now become so obsolete as to be heard only from the vulgar.

Come, grin on me; and I will think thou smil'st,

And buss thee as my wife.-Shakspeare, K. John, iii. 4.

Kissing and bussing differ both in this,

We buss our wantons, but our wives we kiss.-Herrick's Works, p. 219.

TO BUST.

To burst; to fail in business.

Simple persons who have been smarter or earlier in the field of fortune' will burst up some fine morning, and leave the road open to others.-Blackwood's Mag. April, 1847, p. 498.

I was soon fotch'd up in the victualling line—and I busted for the benefit of my creditors.--J. C. Neal, Dolly Jones.

BUSTER. Anything large in size; a man of great strength. A common vulgarism, which appears to be of foreign origin.

Dr. Jamieson, in his Scottish Dictionary, has the word bustuous, busteous, huge, large in size; also, strong, powerful; which is the same meaning usually understood by our vulgar word buster.

The same time sendis sche

Down to the folkis at the cost of the se,

Twenty fed oxin, large, grete, and fyne,

And one hundreth busteous boukes of swyne.-Douglas, Virgil, 33, 8. We sometimes hear this word applied to a gale of wind, as, "This is a buster," i. e. a powerful or heavy wind. In the old Scottish poems there are examples of a similar use of the word.

That terrible trumpet, I hear tel,

Beis hard in heavin, in eirth and hel;
Those that were drownit in the sey,

That busteous blast they sal obey.-Lindsay's Works, 1592, p. 167.

The Icelandic bostra, great noise, seems to be analagous to the word.

BUSTER, or bust. A frolic, a spree. A frolic, a spree. "They were on a buster, and were taken up by the police."

BUSTLE. A pad stuffed with cotton, feathers, bran, &c., worn by ladies for the double purpose of giving a greater rotundity or prominence to the hips, and setting off the smallness of the waist.

Some of the ladies had bustles on that would have literally throwed the

whiskers, and the thing that wore them, entirely in the shade. I never knowed what a bustle was before. Would you believe it, Mr. Thompson, that I saw bustles up to Athens, that, if they'd been made out of real flesh and blood, would broke the back of any gall in Georgia to carry 'em? It's a fact. Why, some of them looked jist as much out of proportion as a bundle of fodder does tied to the handle of a pitchfork. If anything would make me sue for a divorce, it would be to see my wife toting about sich a monstrous pack on her back as some of them I saw up to Athens.-Maj. Jones's Courtship, p. 168.

BUTTE. (French.) This word is of frequent occurrence in books that relate to the Rocky Mountain and Oregon regions, "where," says Col. Frémont, "it is naturalized, and if desirable to render into English, there is no word which would be its precise equivalent. It is applied to the detached hills and ridges which rise abruptly, and reach too high to be called hills or ridges, and not high enough to be called mountains. Knob, as applied in the Western States, is their most descriptive term in English; but no translation or paraphrasis would preserve the identity of these picturesque land-marks."Exped. to the Rocky Mountains, p. 145.

Sir Geo. Simpson in his "Overland Journey round the World," when traversing the Red River country, west of Hudson's Bay, speaks of a conspicuous land-mark in the sea of plains, known as the Butte aux Chiens,

towering with a height of about four hundred feet over a boundless prairie as level and smooth as a pond.—Vol. I. p. 54. BUTTER-CUP. The flower of the ranunculus ficarius.

It

seems to have obtained its name from a vulgar error, that butter is improved in flavor and color by cows eating this plant; though it is well known that they avoid it, on account of its acrid taste.-Craven Glossary.

BUTTERNUT. (Lat. Juglans cinerea.) Also called the oilnut. The tree resembles the black walnut.

BUTTONING UP. A Wall street phrase. When a broker has bought stock on speculation and it falls suddenly on his hands, whereby he is a loser, he keeps the matter to himself and is reluctant to confess the ownership of a share. This is called buttoning up.-A Walk in Wall Street, p. 47.

BUTTON BUSH. (Cephalanthus occidentalis.) A shrub which

grows along the water side, its insulated thickets furnishing a safe retreat for the nests of the black-bird. Its flowers appear at a distance like the balls of the sycamore tree; hence its name.-Bigelow's Flora Bostoniensis.

BUTTON WOOD. (Platanus occidentalis.)

The popular

name in New England of the sycamore tree; so called from the balls it bears, the receptacle of the seeds, which remain on the trees during the winter.-Michaux's Sylva.

BY THE BYE. To Mr. Richardson we are indebted for a fuller examination of this phrase, than other lexicographers have given it. In this expression the latter bye seems to be the same bye as in by-law, &c., and of course to admit a similar explanation. In Lord Bacon; "there is upon the by to be noted," that is, upon the way, in passing, indirectly, this being a collateral and not the main object of pursuit. In Ben Jonson; "those who have saluted poetry on the by;" on their way, in passing; poetry being the collateral and not the direct or main object of their pursuit. By the bye then is by the way, in passing, such being a collateral and not a main object.-Richardson, Dictionary.

BY THE SKIN OF ONE'S TEETH. When a man has made a narrow escape from any dilemma, it is a common remark to say, that he has saved himself by the skin of his teeth.'

BY-BIDDER. A person employed at public auctions to bid on
articles put up for sale, in order to obtain higher prices. In
New York city also called Peter Funks, which see.
BY GOSH!

An inoffensive oath, used mostly in New England. Negroes often say, By Golly!

BY GUM! The same as the preceding. It is also noticed by Moor in his Suffolk Glossary.

BY GOOD RIGHTS. By right, by strict justice; as, "By good rights Mr. Clay ought to be President of the United States," meaning that he is entitled to it by right, or by justice, and for the services he has rendered his country.

C.

CAB. A small one horse carriage, lately introduced into our principal cities from England.

CABBAGE. A cant word for shreds and patches made by tailors in cutting out clothes.-Todd. From this comes to cabbage, to steal in a small way.

CABOOSE. The common pronunciation for camboose (Dutch kombuis), a ship's cooking-range or kitchen.

CACHE. (French.) A hole in the ground for hiding and preserving provisions which it is inconvenient to carry; used by settlers in the West.-Webster.

CADDY. A small box generally made of laquered ware, and lined with sheet lead, for keeping tea in.

CAHOOT. Probably from cohort, Spanish and French, defined in the old French and English Dictionary of Hollyband, 1593, as "a company, a band." It is used at the South and West to denote a company or union of men for a predatory excursion, and sometimes for a partnership in business.

If I could only get the township and range, I'd make a cahoot business with the old man.-Simon Suggs, p. 37.

Pete Hopkins aint no better than he should be, and I wouldn't swar he wasn't in cahoot with the devil.-Chronicles of Pineville, p. 74.

I'd have no objection to go in cahoot with a decent fellow for a character, but have no funds to purchase on my own account.-New Orleans Picayune, p. 136.

The hoosier took him aside, told him there was a smart chance of a pile on one of the (card) tables, and that if he liked, he would go in with himin cahoot!-Field, Western Tales, p. 198.

CALASH. (Fr. calèche.) A two-wheeled carriage, resembling a chaise, used in Canada.

CALASH. A covering for the head, usually worn by ladies to protect their head-dresses when going to evening parties, the theatre, etc.

TO CALCULATE. This word, which properly means to compute, to estimate, has been erroneously transferred from the language of the counting-house to that of common life, where it is used for the words, to esteem; to suppose; to