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s; to note the distinctive character of; to discriminate; to distinguish. To discern such buds as are fit to produce blossoms. Boyle. A counterfeit stone which thine eye can not discern from a right stone. Robynson (More's Utopia).

martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band. The drums cry bud-a-dub. Gascoigne.

Pertaining to an embryo; rudimentary; undeveloped; as, an embryo bud.

The act or process of grafting by inoculation; budding. [Obs.] Holland.

A process which, among some of the lower forms of life, precedes reproduction by budding, fission, spore formation, etc.

Pertaining to the interior of the stomach; -- applied to a mode of budding from the interior of the gastric cavity, in certain hydroids.

lling; hence, in the process of growth; development; as, the evolution of a flower from a bud, or an animal from the egg.

Growing outside of the axils; as, an extra-axillary bud.

Unfledged, or newly fledged. [Obs.] Like eyas hawk up mounts unto the skies, His newly budded pinions assay. Spebser.

The bud or sprout of a plant or tuber; as the eye of a potato.

Fruitful; producing abudantly. [R.] Thomson.

To furnish an abudant supply to; to furnish with as mush as is desired or desirable; to occupy the whole of; to swarm in or overrun. And God blessed them, saying. Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas. Gen. i. 22. The Syrians filled the country. 1 Kings xx. 27.

apable of, or pertaining to, flection or inflection. A flectional word is a phrase in the bud. Earle.

Containing, or belonging to, a flower; as, a floral bud; a floral leaf; floral characters. Martyn. Floral envelope (Bot.), the calyx and corolla, one or the other of which (mostly the corolla) may be wanting.

Zoöl.), an Australian bird of the genus Anthornis, allied to the honey eaters. -- Flower bud, an unopened flower. -- Flower clock, an assemblage of flowers which open and close at different hours of the day, thus indicating the time. -- Flower head (Bot.), a compound flower in which all the florets are sessile on th…

The Chinese name of Buddha.

A Buddhist priest. See Fo.

is forward, or forward for the season; we have a forward spring. early. The most forward bud Is eaten by the canker ere it blow. Shak.

ng, inclined, endless apron on which ore is concentrated by a current of water; a kind of buddle.

A bud. From the joints of thy prolific stem A swelling knot is raised called a gem. Denham.