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- English Word Bucolic Definition Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.
- English Word Bucolic Definition A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil.
- English Word Bucolical Definition Bucolic.
- English Word Bucrania Definition of Bucranium
- English Word Bucranium Definition A sculptured ornament, representing an ox skull adorned with wreaths, etc.
- English Word Bud Definition 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.
- English Word Bud Definition A small protuberance on certain low forms of animals and vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or attached. See Hydra.
- English Word Bud Definition To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot.
- English Word Bud Definition To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
- English Word Bud Definition To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin.
- 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.