lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.-the cloth or clothes soaked or washed.-to soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching.-to wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.-to break up or pulverize, as ores.-the male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.-a gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.-a male indian or negro.-to copulate, as bucks and does.-to spring with quick plunging leaps, descending with the fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; -- said of a vicious horse or mule.-to subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.-to throw by bucking. see buck, v. i., 2.-a frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.-the beech tree.