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Bud
King James Dictionary
or BUD, n. Gr. to plant or beget. A gem the shoot of a plant a small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves or a flower. It is called by botanists the hybernacle, the winter lodge or receptacle of the leaves or flowers of plants, and is an epitome of a flower, or of a shoot, which is to be unfolded the succeeding summer. It is covered with scales, which are intended to defend the inclosed rudiments from cold and other external injuries.are of three kinds that containing the flower that containing the leaves and that containing both flower and leaves.
BUD, To put forth or produce buds or gems. Job 19:9 .
1. To put forth shoots to grow as a bud into a flower or shoot.
2. To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
3. To be in bloom, or growing like a young plant.
BUD, To inoculate a plant to insert the bud of a plant under the bark of another tree, for the purpose of raising, upon any stock, a species of fruit different from that of the stock.
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Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Bud'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/b/bud.html.
