| Bud |
n. |
A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an undeveloped branch or flower. |
| Bud |
n. |
A small protuberance on certain low forms of animals and vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or attached. See Hydra. |
| Bud |
v. i. |
To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot. |
| Bud |
v. i. |
To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn. |
| Bud |
v. i. |
To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin. |
| Bud |
v. t. |
To graft, as a plant with another or into another, by inserting a bud from the one into an opening in the bark of the other, in order to raise, upon the budded stock, fruit different from that which it would naturally bear. |
| Budded |
imp. & p. p. |
of Bud |
| Buddha |
n. |
The title of an incarnation of self-abnegation, virtue, and wisdom, or a deified religious teacher of the Buddhists, esp. Gautama Siddartha or Sakya Sinha (or Muni), the founder of Buddhism. |
| 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. |
| Buddhist |
n. |
One who accepts the teachings of Buddhism. |
| Buddhist |
a. |
Of or pertaining to Buddha, Buddhism, or the Buddhists. |
| Buddhistic |
a. |
Same as Buddhist, a. |
| Budding |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Bud |
| Budding |
n. |
The act or process of producing buds. |
| Budding |
n. |
A process of asexual reproduction, in which a new organism or cell is formed by a protrusion of a portion of the animal or vegetable organism, the bud thus formed sometimes remaining attached to the parent stalk or cell, at other times becoming free; gemmation. See Hydroidea. |
| Budding |
n. |
The act or process of ingrafting one kind of plant upon another stock by inserting a bud under the bark. |
| Buddle |
n. |
An apparatus, especially an inclined trough or vat, in which stamped ore is concentrated by subjecting it to the action of running water so as to wash out the lighter and less valuable portions. |
| Buddle |
v. i. |
To wash ore in a buddle. |
| Bude burner |
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A burner consisting of two or more concentric Argand burners (the inner rising above the outer) and a central tube by which oxygen gas or common air is supplied. |
| Bude light |
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A light in which high illuminating power is obtained by introducing a jet of oxygen gas or of common air into the center of a flame fed with coal gas or with oil. |
| Budge |
v. i. |
To move off; to stir; to walk away. |
| Budge |
v. |
Brisk; stirring; jocund. |
| Budge |
n. |
A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on;
used formerly as an edging and ornament, esp. of scholastic habits. |
| Budge |
a. |
Lined with budge; hence, scholastic. |
| Budge |
a. |
Austere or stiff, like scholastics. |
| Budged |
imp. & p. p. |
of Budge |
| Budgeness |
n. |
Sternness; severity. |
| Budger |
n. |
One who budges. |
| budgerow |
n. |
A large and commodious, but generally cumbrous and sluggish boat, used for journeys on the Ganges. |
| Budget |
n. |
A bag or sack with its contents; hence, a stock or store; an accumulation; as, a budget of inventions. |
| Budget |
n. |
The annual financial statement which the British chancellor of the exchequer makes in the House of Commons. It comprehends a general view of the finances of the country, with the proposed plan of taxation for the ensuing year. The term is sometimes applied to a similar statement in other countries. |
| Budging |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Budge |
| Budgy |
n. |
Consisting of fur. |
| Budlet |
n. |
A little bud springing from a parent bud. |
