Buddhism: Definition and part of speech

Buddhism

n. The religion based upon the doctrine originally taught by the Hindoo sage Gautama Siddartha, surnamed Buddha, “the awakened or enlightened,” in the sixth century b. c., and adopted as a religion by the greater part of the inhabitants of Central and Eastern Asia and the Indian Islands. Buddha’s teaching is believed to have been atheistic; yet it was characterized by elevated humanity and morality. It presents release from existence (a beatific enfranchisement, Nirvana) as the greatest good. Buddhists believe in transmigration of souls through all phases and forms of life. Their number was estimated in 1881 at 470,000,000.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

n. The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
n. Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
v. t. To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
v. t. To break up or pulverize, as ores.
n. The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.
n. A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.
n. A male Indian or negro.
v. i. To copulate, as bucks and does.
v. i. To spring with quick plunging leaps, descending with the fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; — said of a vicious horse or mule.
v. t. To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.
1n. 1 The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
1n. 1 Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.

p. pr. & vb. n. of Buck
n. The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching; also, the liquid used.
n. A washing.

A plant (Menyanthes trifoliata) which grows in moist and boggy places, having racemes of white or reddish flowers and intensely bitter leaves, sometimes used in medicine; marsh trefoil; — called also bog bean.

n. A four-wheeled vehicle, having a long elastic board or frame resting on the bolsters or axletrees, and a seat or seats placed transversely upon it; — called also buck wagon.