Part 1445

<h1>Bucolical</h1> <Xpage=188>

<hw>Bu*col"ic*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Bucolic.</def>

<h1>Bucranium</h1> <Xpage=188>

<hw>Bu*cra"ni*um</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. L. <plw>Bucrania</plw> <tt>(#)</tt>.</plu> <ety>[L., fr. Gr. <?/ ox head.]</ety> <def>A sculptured ornament, representing an ox skull adorned with wreaths, etc.</def>

<h1>Bud</h1> <Xpage=188>

<hw>Bud</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>budde</ets>; cf. D. <ets>bot</ets>, G. <ets>butze</ets>, <ets>butz</ets>, the core of a fruit, bud, LG. <ets>butte</ets> in hage<ets>butte</ets>, hain<ets>butte</ets>, a hip of the dog-rose, or OF. <ets>boton</ets>, F. <ets>bouton</ets>, bud, button, OF. <ets>boter</ets> to bud, push; all akin to E. <ets>beat</ets>. See <er>Button</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>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.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>A small protuberance on certain low forms of animals and vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or attached. See <er>Hydra</er>.</def>

<cs><col>Bud moth</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>a lepidopterous insect of several species, which destroys the buds of fruit trees; esp. <spn>Tmetocera ocellana</spn> and <spn>Eccopsis malana</spn> on the apple tree.</cd></cs>

<h1>Bud</h1> <Xpage=188>

<hw>Bud</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Budded</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Budding</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; <as>as, a <ex>budding</ex> virgin</as>.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<syn>Syn. -- To sprout; germinate; blossom.</syn>

<h1>Bud</h1> <Xpage=188>

<hw>Bud</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>The apricot and the nectarine may be, and usually are, <b>budded</b> upon the peach; the plum and the peach are <b>budded</b> on each other. <i>Farm. Dict.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Buddha</h1> <Xpage=188>

<hw>Bud"dha</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Skr. <ets>buddha</ets> wise, sage, fr. <ets>budh</ets> to know.]</ety> <def>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.</def>

<h1>Buddhism</h1> <Xpage=188>

<hw>Bud"dhism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The religion based upon the doctrine originally taught by the Hindoo sage Gautama Siddartha, surnamed Buddha, "the awakened or enlightened," in the sixth century <er>b</er>.<er>c</er>., 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, <i>Nirv\'83na</i>) 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.</def>

<h1>Buddhist</h1> <Xpage=188>

<hw>Bud"dhist</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who accepts the teachings of Buddhism.</def>

<h1>Buddhist</h1> <Xpage=188>

<hw>Bud"dhist</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to Buddha, Buddhism, or the Buddhists.</def>

<h1>Buddhistic</h1> <Xpage=188>

<hw>Bud*dhis"tic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Same as <er>Buddhist</er>, <tt>a.</tt></def>

<h1>Budding</h1> <Xpage=188>