Sentence:  The Captain was then a <WSD>buck</WSD> and dandy, during the reign of those two successive dynasties, of the first rank of the second order ; the characteristic of which very respectable rank of fashionables I hold to be, that their spurs impinge upon the pavement oftener than upon the sides of a horse. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A fop or dandy.