noun. Friend; chum. Used as a form of familiar address, especially for a man or boy.

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noun. A small protuberance on a stem or branch, sometimes enclosed in protective scales and containing an undeveloped leaf, flower, or leafy shoot.

noun. The stage or condition of having buds.

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noun. An asexual reproductive structure, as in yeast or a hydra, that consists of an outgrowth capable of developing into a new individual.

noun. A small, rounded organic part, such as a taste bud, that resembles a plant bud.

noun. One that is not yet fully developed.

noun. An earbud.

intransitive verb. To put forth or produce buds.

intransitive verb. To develop or grow from or as if from a bud.

intransitive verb. To be in an undeveloped stage or condition.

intransitive verb. To reproduce asexually by forming a bud.

intransitive verb. To cause to put forth buds.

intransitive verb. To graft a bud onto (a plant).

noun. A gift, especially one meant as a bribe. Acts James I. (Jamieson.)

noun. A familiar term for brother.

To ingraft a bud of or on, as of one plant on the stem of another: as, to bud a garden rose on a brier, or a brier with a garden rose. See budding, n., 3.

To put forth by or as if by the natural process of budding.

To put forth or produce buds; be in bud.

To be in the condition of a bud; sprout; begin to grow or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.

Figuratively, to be in an early stage of development.

To eat buds: said of birds.

To endeavor to gain by gifts; bribe.

Same as bood, preterit and past participle of behoove.

noun. In plants, the undeveloped germ-state of a stem or branch, consisting of a growing point inclosed by closely appressed rudimentary leaves.

noun. In architecture, an ornamental boss or button.

noun. The state of budding or putting forth buds: as, the trees are in bud.

noun. In some cryptogamous plants, especially some Hepaticæ, one of the bodies formed asexually which become detached and reproduce the plant; in the plural, same as gemmœ. See gemma.

noun. A prominence on or in certain animals of low organization, as polyps, which becomes developed into an independent individual, sometimes permanently attached to the parent organism, and sometimes becoming detached; an incipient zoöid, or bud-like beginning of a new individual in a compound animal. See cut under Campanularia.

noun. In zoology and anatomy, a part or organ like or likened to a bud: as, a tactile bud; a gustatory bud.

noun. A weaned calf of the first year.

noun. A young lady just “come out” in society.

intransitive verb. To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot.

intransitive verb. To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.

intransitive verb. To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.

noun. 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.

noun. A small protuberance on certain low forms of animals and vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or attached. See Hydra.

noun. a lepidopterous insect of several species, which destroys the buds of fruit trees; esp. Tmetocera ocellana and Eccopsis malana on the apple tree.

transitive verb. 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.

noun. A newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded.

noun. Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the bud), or marijuana generally.

noun. A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.

noun. A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.

verb. To form buds.

verb. To reproduce by splitting off buds.

noun. Buddy, friend.

noun. used to address a male

verb. develop buds

noun. a swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature leaves or petals

"Mental illness can lead to poverty and crime, and nipping that in the bud is a very proactive decision by the government."