Crossword clues for busk
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Busk \Busk\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Busked (b[u^]skt).] [OE. busken, fr. Icel. b[=u]ask to make one's self ready, rexlexive of b[=u]a to prepare, dwell. Cf. 8th Bound.]
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To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress. [Scot. & Old Eng.]
Busk you, busk you, my bonny, bonny bride.
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To go; to direct one's course. [Obs.]
Ye might have busked you to Huntly banks.
--Skelton.
Busk \Busk\ (b[u^]sk), n. [F. busc, perh. fr. the hypothetical older form of E. bois wood, because the first busks were made of wood. See Bush, and cf. OF. busche, F. b[^u]che, a piece or log of wood, fr. the same root.] A thin, elastic strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset.
Her long slit sleeves, stiff busk, puff verdingall,
Is all that makes her thus angelical.
--Marston.
Busk \Busk\ (b[u^]sk), n. Among the Creek Indians, a feast of first fruits celebrated when the corn is ripe enough to be eaten. The feast usually continues four days. On the first day the new fire is lighted, by friction of wood, and distributed to the various households, an offering of green corn, including an ear brought from each of the four quarters or directions, is consumed, and medicine is brewed from snakeroot. On the second and third days the men physic with the medicine, the women bathe, the two sexes are taboo to one another, and all fast. On the fourth day there are feasting, dancing, and games.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"strip of wood, whalebone, etc., used in corset-making," 1590s, probably from French busc (16c.), from Italian bosco "splinter," of Germanic origin (see bush (n.)).
"to prepare, to dress oneself," also "to go, set out," c.1300, probably from Old Norse buask "to prepare oneself," reflexive of bua "to prepare" (see bound (adj.2)) + contraction of Old Norse reflexive pronoun sik. Most common in northern Middle English and surviving chiefly in Scottish and northern English dialect. Related boun had the same senses in northern and Scottish Middle English. Related: Busked; busking.\n
\nThe nautical term is attested from 1660s (in a general sense of "to tack, to beat to windward"), apparently from obsolete French busquer "to shift, filch, prowl," which is related to Italian buscare "to filch, prowl," Spanish buscar (from Old Spanish boscar), perhaps originally from bosco "wood" (see bush (n.)), with a hunting notion of "beating a wood" to flush game.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it. 2 (qualifier: by extension) A corset. Etymology 2
n. (context obsolete English) A kind of linen. Etymology 3
vb. 1 To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress. 2 To go; to direct one's course. [Obs.] Etymology 4
vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport 2 (context nautical English) To tack, to cruise about.
Wikipedia
A busk is the rigid element of a corset placed at the center front.
Busk may also refer to:
Busk is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- George Busk RN FRS (1807–1886), British Naval surgeon, zoologist and palaeontologist
- Søren Thomas Busk (born April 10, 1953), sportsman (former Danish football defender)
- Richard Dawson Busk (1895–1961), sportsmen (English cricketer)
- Niels Busk (born 1942), Danish politician
- Hans Busk, the elder (1772–1862), poet
- Hans Busk, the younger (1815–1882), shootist
- Edward Teshmaker Busk (1886–1914), aeronautical pioneer
- Rachel Harriette Busk, traveller, collector of tales, writer
- Jens Busk, a politician from Denmark.
Usage examples of "busk".
He noted all of it down, and warned her, in a perfunctory manner, that she would have to purchase her permit to busk before the fourth day.
It might even be the same street Mathe had mentioned as a good place to busk at night.
It would let her save a few pennies, and in the winter when it was too cold to busk, she could stay inside, in a building that would, by necessity, be warmly heated.
There were plenty of free-lance whores out on the street, pretending to busk, with their permits stuck on their hats like anyone else.
Owan said they should reach Busk, the main town of the Isle of Thorold, within another two days.
The School of Busk was set above the main town, surrounded by a low wall that served as a demarcation rather than a barrier.
Unlike Innail and Norloch, the only Schools Maerad knew, Busk was not planned in concentric circlesthe geography of the island, steep and irregular, made this impossible.
Like everyone else in Busk, they all seemed to be involved in lively conversations and disputes.
Her hair was piled up on her head and held in place by silver combs and a length of silk, in a style worn by many Busk women, and she wore no jewelry apart from long silver earrings.
Nerili herself, were elegant: she eschewed the usual silk hangings, ubiquitous in Busk, and instead the stone walls were painted a pale blue, with a faint stenciling of birds in a deeper shade.
In Busk, for the first time, Maerad began to live the life of a normal Bard.
First Bard since the night she had arrived in Busk, and she felt apprehensive, as if she would not know what to say.
School and must not be made known within the town of Busk, aside from those here, who already know.
She would have liked to tell Hem what Busk was like, to describe its low stone buildings and cool gardens, and its cheerful, generous people.
The Busk Library, off the central square, was a labyrinthine building that stretched back deep into the rocky hill behind it.