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Webster 1913 Edition

Bud

Bud

(bŭd)
,
Noun.
[OE.
budde
; cf. D.
bot
, G.
butze
,
butz
, the core of a fruit, bud, LG.
butte
in hage
butte
, hain
butte
, a hip of the dog-rose, or OF.
boton
, F.
bouton
, bud, button, OF.
boter
to bud, push; all akin to E.
beat
. See
Button
.]
1.
(Bot.)
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.
2.
(Biol.)
A small protuberance on certain low forms of animals and vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or attached. See
Hydra
.
Bud moth
(Zool.)
,
a lepidopterous insect of several species, which destroys the buds of fruit trees; esp.
Tmetocera ocellana
and
Eccopsis malana
on the apple tree.

Bud

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Budded
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Budding
.]
1.
To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot.
2.
To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
3.
To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise;
as, a
budding
virgin
.
Shak.
Syn. – To sprout; germinate; blossom.

Bud

,
Verb.
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.
The apricot and the nectarine may be, and usually are,
budded
upon the peach; the plum and the peach are
budded
on each other.
Farm. Dict.

Webster 1828 Edition

Bud

BUD

,
Noun.
[Gr. to plant or beget.] A gem; the shoot of a plant; a small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves or a flower. It is called by botanists the hybernacle, the winter lodge or receptacle of the leaves or flowers of plants, and is an epitome of a flower, or of a shoot, which is to be unfolded the succeeding summer. It is covered with scales, which are intended to defend the inclosed rudiments from cold and other external injuries.are of three kinds; that containing the flower; that containing the leaves; and that containing both flower and leaves.

BUD

,
Verb.
I.
To put forth or produce buds or gems. Job.19.9.
1.
To put forth shoots; to grow as a bud into a flower or shoot.
2.
To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
3.
To be in bloom, or growing like a young plant.

BUD

,
Verb.
T.
To inoculate a plant; to insert the bud of a plant under the bark of another tree, for the purpose of raising, upon any stock, a species of fruit different from that of the stock.

Definition 2024

buď

buď

See also: bud, Bud, and búð

Czech

Verb

buď

  1. second-person singular imperative of být

Conjunction

buď

  1. either

Usage notes

  • Used in the pair buď-nebo ("either-or").
  • Never used in questions, for example:
    Pojedu buď vlakem nebo autobusem.‎
    I'll go either by train or by bus.
    Pojedu vlakem nebo autobusem.‎
    I'll go by train or by bus.
    Pojedou vlakem nebo autobusem?‎
    Will they go by train or by bus?

Pronunciation

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