BRUISING WATER. Pitching heavily to a head-sea, and making but little head-way. BRUN-SWYNE. An early name for a seal. BRUSH. A move; a skirmish. BRYDPORT. An old word signifying cable. The best hemp grew at Bridport, in Dorsetshire; and there was a statute, that the cables and hawsers for the Royal Navy were to be made thereabouts. BUB. A liquor or drink. _Bub_ and _grub_ meaning inversely meat and drink. BUBBLE. Another term for spirit-level, used for astronomical instruments. BUBBLER. A fish found in the waters of the Ohio, thus named from the bubbling noise it makes. BUCCANEER. A name given to certain piratical rovers, of various European nations, who formerly infested the coasts of Spanish America. They were originally inoffensive settlers in Hispaniola, but were inhumanly driven from their habitations by the jealous policy of the Spaniards; whence originated their implacable hatred to that nation. Also, a large musketoon, about 8 feet in length, so called from having been used by those marauders. BUCENTAUR. A large and splendid galley of the doge of Venice, in which he received the great lords and persons of quality who went there, accompanied by the ambassadors and councillors of state, and all the senators seated on benches by him. The same vessel served also in the magnificent ceremony on Ascension-day, when the doge threw a ring into the sea to espouse it, and to denote his dominion over the Gulf of Venice. BUCHAN BOILERS. The heavy breaking billows among the rocks on the coast of Buchan. BUCHT. A Shetland term for lines of 55 fathoms. BUCK, TO. To wash a sail. BUCKALL. An earthen wine-cup used in the sea-ports of Portugal, Spain, and Italy. [From _bocale_, It.] BUCKER. A name for the grampus in the Hebrides. It is also applied, on some of our northern coasts, to the porpoise. BUCKET. A small globe of hoops, covered with canvas, used as a recall for the boats of whalers. BUCKET-ROPE. That which is tied to a bucket for drawing water up from alongside. BUCKETS. Are made either of canvas, of leather, or of wood; the latter are used principally for washing the decks, and therefore answer the purposes of pails. BUCKET-VALVE. In a steamer's engine, is a flat metal plate filling up the passage between the air-pump and the condenser, and acted upon by both in admitting or repressing the passage of water. BUCKHORN. Whitings, haddocks, thorn-backs, gurnet, and other fish, cleaned, gently salted, and dried in the sun. BUCKIE. A northern name for the whelk. BUCKIE-INGRAM. A name for the hermit-crab. BUCKIE-PRINS. A northern designation for a periwinkle. BUCKLE. A mast buckles when it suffers by compression, so that the fibre takes a sinuous form, and the grain is _upset_. Also, in Polar regions, the bending or arching of the ice upwards, preceding a nip.