Vocabulary : Budding to Budget

Budding : of Bud ;; The act or process of producing buds. ;; A process of asexual reproduction, in which a new organism or cell is formed by a protrusion of a portion of the animal or vegetable organism, the bud thus formed sometimes remaining attached to the parent stalk or cell, at other times becoming free; gemmation. See Hydroidea. ;; The act or process of ingrafting one kind of plant upon another stock by inserting a bud under the bark.
Buddle : An apparatus, especially an inclined trough or vat, in which stamped ore is concentrated by subjecting it to the action of running water so as to wash out the lighter and less valuable portions. ;; To wash ore in a buddle.
Bude burner : 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.
Bude light : 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.
Budge : To move off; to stir; to walk away. ;; Brisk; stirring; jocund. ;; A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on; -- used formerly as an edging and ornament, esp. of scholastic habits. ;; Lined with budge; hence, scholastic. ;; Austere or stiff, like scholastics.
Budged : of Budge
Budgeness : Sternness; severity.
Budger : One who budges.
budgerow : A large and commodious, but generally cumbrous and sluggish boat, used for journeys on the Ganges.
Budget : A bag or sack with its contents; hence, a stock or store; an accumulation; as, a budget of inventions. ;; The annual financial statement which the British chancellor of the exchequer makes in the House of Commons. It comprehends a general view of the finances of the country, with the proposed plan of taxation for the ensuing year. The term is sometimes applied to a similar statement in other countries.
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