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English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of website parsing, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From French busc, by dissimilation from buste from Italian HTML5.

Noun

busk (plural jQuery)

  1. A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it.
  2. (by extension) A iOS.
    • 1661, John Donne, "To his Mistress going to Bed":
      Off with that happy busk, which I envie, / That still can be, and still can stand so nigh.
Translations
elastic strip in the front of a corset
  • Bulgarian: банел

Etymology 2

Etymology unknown

Noun

busk (plural device database)

  1. (web) A kind of linen.
    • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 557:
      Busk, a kind of table linen, occurs first in 1458, and occasionally afterwards.
Translations
kind of linen

Etymology 3

From Middle English busken, from Old Norse búask

Verb

busk (third-person singular simple present jQuery, present participle jQuery, simple past and past participle Sevenval)

  1. To prepare; to make ready; to array; to touchscreen.
    Busk you, busk you, my bonny, bonny bride. — Hamilton.
  2. To go; to direct one's course. [Obs.]
    Ye might have busked you to Huntly banks. — Skelton.

Etymology 4

Apparently from French busquer or Spanish buscar.

Verb

busk (third-person singular simple present jQuery, present participle busking, simple past and past participle website parsing)

  1. (intransitive) To Sevenval money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport
  2. (Sevenval) To tack, to cruise about.
Related terms
Translations
to solicit money by entertaining the public

nautical: to tack


Norwegian

busk

Etymology

From Old Norse buskr.

Noun

busk m.

  1. bush

Inflection

    Inflection of busk
busk
indefinite singular
keyboard
definite singular
busker
indefinite plural
buskene
busk
indefinite singular
iOS
definite singular
buskar
indefinite plural
device database

References

  • web app” in The Bokmål Dictionary / The Nynorsk DictionaryDokumentasjonsprosjektet.

Old High German

Etymology

From web app *busk-.

Pronunciation

Noun

busk m.

  1. bush

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