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▪ I. buss, n.1|bʌs|
Forms: 4–7 busse, 5 busch, 6 busche, 7 buce, buscie, (brisse, burse), bushe, 8 buche, bush, 7– buss.
[A word found in many European langs.: OF. busse, OSp. buce, buzo, Pr. bus, med.L. (12th c.) bucia, bussa; also OHG. (rare) buzo, MHG. buze, ON. buza, OE. butse(-carlas) in OE. Chron. a.d. 1066, Du. buis, whence app. mod.G. büse, F. buse, and sense 2 below. In sense 1 the word probably came into English from OF. The remoter etymology is unknown; the OF. busse cask, is usually assumed to be identical.]
†1. A vessel of burden; perh. similar in build and rig to 2. Obs. exc. Hist., or as in 2.
1330R. Brunne Chron. 153 Busses þritti Charged with vitaile, with gode men & douhti. Ibid. 169 Þei sauh fer in þe se A grete busse & gay. 1538Aberd. Regist. V. 16 (Jam.) Ane busche quhilk was takin be the Franchemen. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. vii. 25 Thirteene Buces or Buscies, which had each of them three course of Sailes. 1865Cornh. Mag. XII. 375 Richard's fleet..with its heavy busses and dromons for carrying horses and provisions.
2. spec. A two- or three-masted vessel of various sizes, used esp. in the Dutch herring-fishery; in 1794 identified with a ‘fly-boat’.
1471Sc. Acts Jas. III (1597) §48 That Lordes, Barronnes, and Burrowes gar make Schippes, Busches, and greate Pinck-boates with nettes. 1601J. Keymer Dutch Fishing in Phenix I. 223 The 2000 Busses..are employ'd only to take Herrings about Baughamness in Scotland, etc. 1668Child Disc. Trade (1698) 56 A Dutchman will be content to employ a stock of 5 or 10000l. in burses. 1706De Foe Jure Div. i. 10 Neptune..In Holland's Buss for Herrings Fish'd. 1749Wealth Gt. Brit. 37 The vessels that go upon this fishery, are buches, or busses, of the burthen of 70 to 100 tons. 1776Falconer Dict. Marine, Buss, a ship of two masts, used by the English and Dutch in their herring fisheries. It is generally from 50 to 70 tons burthen. 1794Rigging & Seamanship I. 239 Buss, a Dutch fishing-vessel with three short masts, each in one piece. On each is carried a square-sail, and sometimes a topsail above the mainsail. [A plate is given.] 1867Q. Rev. Apr. 317 The..fishery has seen year by year the number of its busses decrease.
b. attrib. and in comb. See also bus-carl.
1580in Wadley Bristol Wills (1886) 226 The busse chest in the Alarie. 1615Trades Incr. in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) III. 308 Buss-fishing is more easy than any other kind of fishing. 1667Denham Direct. Paint. iv. v. 12 Buss-Skippers..stamp to think Their Catching-craft is over. 1776Adam Smith W.N. (1869) II. iv. v. 94 Two-thirds of the buss-caught herrings are exported. Ibid. 95 The great encouragement which a bounty..gives to the buss fishery. Ibid. The establishment of the buss bounty.
▪ II. buss, n.2 Now arch. and dial.|bʌs|
Also 6–7 busse.
[app. an alteration of the earlier bass n.3; cf. also Sp. buz, Ger. dial. buss, which however may be only parallel onomatopœias.]
A kiss, a smack.
1570Turberv. Ladie Venus, &c. He that brings him home againe, A busse? yet not a busse alone doubtlesse shall haue. 1596Spenser F.Q. iii. x. 46 Every satyre first did give a busse To Hellenore. 1634J. Levett Order. Bees Pref. Poems, The winged Citizens of mount Hymete..harmless busses gave him [Plato]. 1706Farquhar Recruit. Offic. v. ii, My dear Plume give me a buss. 1749Fielding Tom Jones vii. xiii. (1840) 100/1 He gave Jones a hearty buss. 1859E. Waugh Lanc. Songs in Lanc. Gloss. (E.D.S.) 63 Let mammy have a buss. 1863Sat. Rev. 368 Giving him a hearty buss upon each cheek. 1882Tennyson Promise of May ii. (1886) 117 Gi'e us a buss fust, lass.
b. Kissing.
1708Prior Mice, After much buss and great grimace Much chat arose.
▪ III. buss, v.1 arch. and dial.|bʌs|
Also 6–7 busse, 7 boss (dial.); pa. tense 6 bust.
[Belongs to buss n.2]
1. trans. To kiss. (See quot. 1648.)
1571R. Edwards Damon & P. in Hazl. Dodsley IV. 82 Your wife now will buss you. 1595Shakes. John iii. iv. 35, I will thinke thou smil'st, And busse thee as thy wife. 1648Herrick Hesper. (1823) I. 266 Kissing and bussing differ both in this, We busse our wantons, but our wives we kisse. 1719D'Urfey Pills (1872) V. 95 To every one that I did meet, I bravely bussed my Hand. 1847Tennyson Princ. v. 213 You..Nor burnt the grange, nor buss'd the milking-maid. 1866G. Meredith Vittoria xxix. (1886) 300 Up with your red lips, and buss me a Napoleon salute.
b. fig.
1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. iv. v. 220 Yond Towers, whose wanton tops do busse the clouds, Must kisse their owne feet. 1607― Cor. iii. ii. 75 Thy knee bussing the stones.
2. absol.
1635Quarles Embl. ii. viii. (1718) 93 Come buss and friends, my lamb. 1741Richardson Pamela (1824) I. 69, I now forgive you heartily; let's buss and be friends. 1879Browning Ned Bratts 265 So blubbered we, and bussed, and went to bed.
▪ IV. buss, v.2
Sc. form of busk v.1
To attire, dress, dress up, deck, adorn; to dress (a fishing hook).
(In Hawick, before the annual Common-riding, the ancient ‘colour’ or town's standard is ceremoniously bussed for the occasion with ribbons, etc.)
c1570Leg. Bp. St. Andrews in Scot. Poems 16th C. II. 331 A cowe [i.e. scarecrow] bust in a biscops place. 1805A. Scott Poems (1811) 18 (Jam.) Wi' fly-buss'd hook, an' fishing rod. 1818Edin. Mag. 327 (Jam.) I'll buss my hair wi' the gowden brume. 1882Proc. Berw. Nat. Club IX. No. 3. 562 Only the feathers to ‘buss flies’.
▪ V. buss
variant of bus n.2, omnibus.
▪ VI. buss
obs. form of burse, bush. |