(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.
(n.) A small protuberance on certain low forms of animals and
vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or attached.
See Hydra.
(v. i.) To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud
does, into a flower or shoot.
(v. i.) To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of
a bud, as a horn.
(v. i.) To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or
growth and promise; as, a budding virgin.
(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.
