Available Definitions:
1) n. - The act or process of producing buds.
2) n. - 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.
3) n. - The act or process of ingrafting one kind of plant upon another stock by inserting a bud under the bark.
4) v. i. - To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
5) v. i. - To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin.
6) 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.