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  • English Word Bud Definition 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.
  • English Word Budded Definition of Bud
  • English Word Buddha Definition 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.
  • English Word Buddhism Definition 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.
  • English Word Buddhist Definition One who accepts the teachings of Buddhism.
  • English Word Buddhist Definition Of or pertaining to Buddha, Buddhism, or the Buddhists.
  • English Word Buddhistic Definition Same as Buddhist, a.
  • English Word Budding Definition of Bud
  • English Word Budding Definition The act or process of producing buds.
  • English Word Budding Definition 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.
  • English Word Budding Definition The act or process of ingrafting one kind of plant upon another stock by inserting a bud under the bark.
  • English Word Buddle Definition 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.
  • English Word Buddle Definition To wash ore in a buddle.
  • English Word Bude burner Definition 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.
  • English Word Bude light Definition 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.
  • English Word Budge Definition To move off; to stir; to walk away.
  • English Word Budge Definition Brisk; stirring; jocund.
  • English Word Budge Definition A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on; -- used formerly as an edging and ornament, esp. of scholastic habits.
  • English Word Budge Definition Lined with budge; hence, scholastic.
  • English Word Budge Definition Austere or stiff, like scholastics.
  • English Word Budged Definition of Budge
  • English Word Budgeness Definition Sternness; severity.
  • English Word Budger Definition One who budges.
  • English Word budgerow Definition A large and commodious, but generally cumbrous and sluggish boat, used for journeys on the Ganges.
  • English Word Budget Definition A bag or sack with its contents; hence, a stock or store; an accumulation; as, a budget of inventions.
  • English Word Budget Definition 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.
  • English Word Budging Definition of Budge
  • English Word Budgy Definition Consisting of fur.
  • English Word Budlet Definition A little bud springing from a parent bud.
  • English Word Buff Definition A sort of leather, prepared from the skin of the buffalo, dressed with oil, like chamois; also, the skins of oxen, elks, and other animals, dressed in like manner.