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ls and vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or attached. See Hydra. Bud moth (Zoöl.), a lepidopterous insect of several species, which destroys the buds of fruit trees; esp. Tmetocera ocellana and Eccopsis malana on the apple tree.

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.

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 athe…

One who accepts the teachings of Buddhism.

Same as Buddhist, a.

The act or process of producing buds.

To wash ore in a buddle.

A burner consisting of two or more concentric Argand burners (the inner rising above the outer) and a central tube by which oxygen gas or common air is supplied.

A light in which high illuminating power is obtained by introducing a jet of oxygen gas or of common air into the center of a flame fed with coal gas or with oil.

To move off; to stir; to walk away. I'll not budge an inch, boy. Shak. The mouse ne'er shunned the cat as they did budge From rascals worse than they. Shak.

Sternness; severity. [Obs.] A Sara for goodness, a great Bellona for budgeness. Stanyhurst.

One who budges. Shak.

A large and commodious, but generally cumbrous and sluggish boat, used for journeys on the Ganges.

A bag or sack with its contents; hence, a stock or store; an accumulation; as, a budget of inventions.

Consisting of fur. [Obs.]

A little bud springing from a parent bud. We have a criterion to distinguish one bud from another, or the parent bud from the numerous budlets which are its offspring. E. Darwin.

A species of Ranunculus (R. bulbosus); -- called also butterflower, buttercup, kingcup, goldcup. Shak.

To deprive of buds or shoots, as for training, or economizing the vital strength of a tree.

The marigold; a blossom of the marigold. Shak.

To sprout. [Poetic] Spenser.