intransitive verb. To play music or perform entertainment in a public place, usually while soliciting money.

To cruise as a pirate.

To earn a livelihood by going about singing, playing, and selling ballads, or as an acrobat, juggler, etc., in public houses, steamboats, on the street, etc.

noun. An obsolete form of bush.

To get ready; prepare; equip; dress: as, to busk a fish-hook.

To use; employ.

To get ready and go; hasten; hurry.

To seek; hunt up and down; cast about; beat about.

Nautical, to beat to windward along a coast; cruise off and on.

noun. A stiffened body-garment, as a doublet, corset, or bodice.

noun. A flexible strip of wood, steel, whalebone, or other stiffening material, placed in the front of stays to keep them in form.

noun. An Indian feast of first fruits.

noun. Among the Creek Indians, a feast of first fruits celebrated when the corn is ripe enough to be eaten. The feast usually continues four days. On the first day the new fire is lighted, by friction of wood, and distributed to the various households, an offering of green corn, including an ear brought from each of the four quarters or directions, is consumed, and medicine is brewed from snakeroot. On the second and third days the men physic with the medicine, the women bathe, the two sexes are taboo to one another, and all fast. On the fourth day there are feasting, dancing, and games.

verb. To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.

verb. To go; to direct one's course.

noun. A thin, elastic strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset.

noun. A kind of linen.

noun. A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it.

noun. A corset.

verb. To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.

verb. To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport

verb. To tack, to cruise about.

verb. play music in a public place and solicit money for it

"Jamieson (Scottish Dictionary) says: "The term busk is employed in a beautiful proverb which is very commonly used in Scotland, 'A bonny bride is soon busked. '""

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