Index of English words, starting with "bu"

(1) - Busy (v. t.) To make or keep busy; to employ; to engage or keep engaged; to occupy; as, to busy one's self with books.
(2) - Busy (a.) Careful; anxious.
(3) - Busy (a.) Officious; meddling; foolish active.
(4) - Busy (a.) Crowded with business or activities; -- said of places and times; as, a busy street.
(5) - Busy (a.) Constantly at work; diligent; active.
(6) - Busy (a.) Engaged in some business; hard at work (either habitually or only for the time being); occupied with serious affairs; not idle nor at leisure; as, a busy merchant.

(1) - Busybody (n.) One who officiously concerns himself with the affairs of others; a meddling person.

(1) - But (v. t.) A mark to be shot at; a target.
(2) - But (adv. & conj.) Except; besides; save.
(3) - But (adv. & conj.) Excepting or excluding the fact that; save that; were it not that; unless; -- elliptical, for but that.
(4) - But (adv. & conj.) Otherwise than that; that not; -- commonly, after a negative, with that.
(5) - But (adv. & conj.) Only; solely; merely.
(6) - But (adv. & conj.) On the contrary; on the other hand; only; yet; still; however; nevertheless; more; further; -- as connective of sentences or clauses of a sentence, in a sense more or less exceptive or adversative; as, the House of Representatives passed the bill, but the Senate dissented; our wants are many, but quite of another kind.
(7) - But (prep., adv. & conj.) The outer apartment or kitchen of a two-roomed house; -- opposed to ben, the inner room.
(8) - But (n.) A limit; a boundary.
(9) - But (n.) The end; esp. the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in distinction from the sharp, end. See 1st Butt.
(10) - But (v. i.) See Butt, v., and Abut, v.
(11) - But (adv. & conj.) Except with; unless with; without.
(12) - But (v. t.) The thicker end of anything. See But.
(13) - But (v. t.) The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice.
(14) - But (v. t.) A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed; as, the butt of the company.
(15) - But (v. t.) A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head of an animal; as, the butt of a ram.
(16) - But (v. t.) A thrust in fencing.
(17) - But (v. t.) A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field.
(18) - But (v. t.) A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering; -- also called butt joint.
(19) - But (v. t.) The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib.
(20) - But (v. t.) The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose.
(21) - But (v. t.) The joint where two planks in a strake meet.
(22) - But (v. t.) A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc.; -- so named because fastened on the edge of the door, which butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt hinge.
(23) - But (v. t.) The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.
(24) - But (v. t.) A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.