| n. | 1. | Buckwheat. |
| 1. | A sort of bridle with wooden side pieces. | |
| 2. | A scolding bridle, an instrument formerly used for correcting scolding women. It was an iron frame surrounding the head and having a triangular piece entering the mouth of the scold. | |
| v. i. | 1. | To hold up and toss the head; - applied to horses as spurning the bit. |
| 2. | To prance; to caper. |