[f. BURGEON v. + -ING1.]

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  1.  The action of budding or sprouting; also fig.

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c. 1400.  Primer, in Maskell, Mon. Rit., II. 24. Thou ȝeldist with hooly buriownynge.

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1616.  Markham, Countr. Farm, III. xlvi. 401. It keepeth the tree from growing and rising, which is the same that we call bourgening.

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1878.  B. Taylor, Deukalion, II. v. 91. April burgeoning of sunny locks.

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  † 2.  concr. A bud, a growing shoot, a branch; also transf. offspring. Obs.

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a. 1340.  Hampole, Psalter, 513. As rayne on herbe, and as droppis on burionyngis.

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1382.  Wyclif, Matt. xxiii. 33. Ȝee … fruytis, or buriownyngus, of eddris.

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1618.  Sheph. Kal. (1656), xlvii. Thou ugly beast, Which of the Wines the burgenings doth eat.

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