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Buoyage
- - Buoys, taken collectively; a series of buoys, as for the guidance of vessels into or out of port; the providing of buoys.
Buoyant
- adjective - characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness; "buoyant spirits"; "his quick wit and chirpy humor"; "looking bright and well and chirpy"; "a perky little widow in her 70s"
- tending to float on a liquid or rise in air or gas; "buoyant balloons"; "buoyant balsawood boats"; "a floaty scarf"
Buoying
- verb - float on the surface of water
- keep afloat; "The life vest buoyed him up"
- mark with a buoy
Burying
- verb - concealing something under the ground
- cover from sight; "Afghani women buried under their burkas"
- dismiss from the mind; stop remembering; "I tried to bury these unpleasant memories"
- embed deeply; "She sank her fingers into the soft sand"; "He buried his head in her lap"
- enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter"
- place in a grave or tomb; "Stalin was buried behind the Kremlin wall on Red Square"; "The pharaohs were entombed in the pyramids"; "My grandfather was laid to rest last Sunday"
- place in the earth and cover with soil; "They buried the stolen goods"
Busying
- verb - keep busy with; "She busies herself with her butterfly collection"
Butyric
- adjective - relating to or producing butyric acid
Butyrin
- noun - any of three glycerides of butyric acid
Butyryl
- - The radical (C3H7.CO-) of butyric acid.
Calyces
- noun - (botany) the whorl of sepals of a flower collectively forming the outer floral envelope or layer of the perianth enclosing and supporting the developing bud; usually green
Calycle
- noun - a group of bracts simulating a calyx as in a carnation or hibiscus
- a small cup-shaped structure (as a taste bud or optic cup or cavity of a coral containing a polyp)