Definitions
1.verbTo form buds."The trees are finally starting to bud."
2.verbTo reproduce by splitting off buds."Yeast reproduces by budding."
3.verbTo begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
4.verbTo be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.
5.verbTo put forth as a bud.
6.verbTo graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.