n. The act of pushing, as with the horns or head; butting.n. A game among boys, played with sticks and a small piece of wood cut lengthwise.n. A large piece of timber; a heavy support for machinery or other structures.n. The act of swelling out, as a sail.n. Sifting.n. The popular name of a number of conirostral oscine passerine birds of the genus Emberiza and family Fringillidæ.n. By extension, a name given indefinitely and indiscriminately to a great number of emberizine and fringilline birds of all countries, and also to some birds not of the family Fringillidæ.n. A light woolen stuff very loosely woven.n. Flags, especially a vessel's flags, collectively.Short and thick-set.n. A short and thick-set person.n. The common shrimp, Crangon vulgaris.