Index of English words, starting with "bu"

(1) - Bucolic (n.) A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil.
(2) - Bucolic (a.) Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.

(1) - Bud (v. t.) To graft, as a plant with another or into another, by inserting a bud from the one into an opening in the bark of the other, in order to raise, upon the budded stock, fruit different from that which it would naturally bear.
(2) - Bud (v. i.) To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin.
(3) - Bud (v. i.) To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
(4) - Bud (v. i.) To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot.
(5) - Bud (n.) A small protuberance on certain low forms of animals and vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or attached. See Hydra.
(6) - Bud (n.) A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an undeveloped branch or flower.

(1) - Budded (imp. & p. p.) of Bud

(1) - Buddha (n.) The title of an 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.