Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BUD, v.i.

1. To put forth or produce buds or gems. – Job xiv. 9.
2. To put forth shoots; to grow as a bud into a flower or shoot. – Dryden.
3. To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn. – Dryden.
4. To be in bloom, or growing like a young plant. – Shak.