To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
To put forth as a bud.
To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.
To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.
To reproduce by splitting off buds.
To form buds.
Buddy, friend.
used to address a male
A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.
Something that has begun to develop.
Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the "bud"), or marijuana generally.
A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.
A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.
To cause someone or something to operate the way it does.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see make, tick.