[f. BUD sb.1]
1. intr. a. To put forth buds, to sprout. b. with out: To come or push out, as a bud.
1398. [see BUDDING vbl. sb.1]
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 54. Buddun as trees, gemmo.
1535. Coverdale, Job xiv. 8. The stocke … will budde.
1626. Bacon, Sylva (1677), § 417. The removing of the Tree some Moneth before it Buddeth.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., VI. 206. If … a Carbuncle bud out in the Arms or Legs.
1813. Scott, Rokeby, III. xxviii. The rose is budding fain.
1862. H. Spencer, First Princ., II. xv. § 119 (1875), 336. The wings and legs of a bird … when they bud-out from the sides of the embryo.
2. fig. To spring forth, as a bud; to begin to grow; to develop; also with out, up.
1566. Knox, Hist. Ref., Wks. 1846, I. 184. Thairby Goddis woord should somewhat bud.
a. 1593. H. Smith, Serm. (1866), II. 254. Many vices bud out of this one.
1608. Golding, Epit. Frossard’s Chron., II. 68. There was trouble and insurrection budding vp.
1613. Shaks., Hen. VIII., I. i. 94. The sodaine breach … is budded out, For France hath flaw’d the League.
1713. Young, Last Day, III. 317. There, buds the promise of celestial worth.
1859. Merivale, Rom. Emp. (1865), VIII. lxvi. 210. The camps which Agricola had planted … budded, in the course of ages, into little towns.
3. trans. To put forth as buds; to produce by gemmation; also with forth and out. Also fig.
1591. Spenser, Vis. Bellay, 138. This Hydra … With seuen heads, budding monstrous crimes.
1625. Gonsalvio’s Sp. Inquis. It buddeth forth such pestilent blossomes.
1854. Woodward, Mollusca (1856), 49. The power they [zoöphytes] possess of budding out new individuals.
1869. Nicholson, Zool., lviii. (1880), 520. Within the branchial chamber [of the tadpole] … the fore-limbs are budded forth.
4. To bring into bud, cause to bud; also fig.
1604. Drayton, Owle, 3. The strength and fervour of whose pregnant ray, Buds every branch, and blossomes every spray.
a. 1700[?]. Hawthorn Tree, in Child, Ballads, I. 313. Next yere againe I will be sene To bude my branches.
1852. Tupper, Proverb. Philos., 403. When did the body elevate, expand, and bud the mind?
5. Gardening. To ingraft by inserting a bud of a shrub or tree under the bark of another ‘stock,’ for the purpose of raising flowers or fruit different from those of the stock. Also absol.
1663. Cowley, Verses & Ess. (1669), 119. We no where Art do so triumphant see, As when it Grafs or Buds the Tree.
1664. Evelyn, Kal. Hort. (1729), 198. You may … bud at the end of this month. Ibid. Stocks to bud Oranges and Lemons on.
1725. Bradley, Fam. Dict., II. s.v. Laurel, Grafted or budded upon black Cherry Stalks.
1853. Blackw. Mag., LXXIII. 131. He grafted, and budded, and hybridised.
1861. Delamer, Fl. Gard., 156. To be budded on the Musk Rose.
