bucrane (bukran)

Same as bucranium. An immense Roman sarcophagus of oriental granite, with masks carved upon its lid and festooned bucranes upon its sides. C. C. Perkins , Italian Sculpture, Int., p. liv. bucranium (bū-krā'ni-um), n.; pl. bucrania (-a). [In sense 1, NL.; in sense 2, LL., a certain plant; βουκράνιον , an ox-head, a kind of bryony, βοῦς , οx, + κράνιον , skull, cranium.] IMG:content-2687.jpg:[blocks in formation] 1. In art, the skull of an ox: an ornament often sculptured, frequently with adornment of wreaths or other decoration, on the frieze of the entablature in the Roman Ionic and Corinthian orders of architecture, and also in other situations.-2. The herb calf's-snout. Kersey, 1708. bud1 (bud), n. [ Somer toward whan buddys first appeere. Lydgate , Minor Poems (ed. Hall i well, 1840), p. 217. 2t. In arch . , an ornamental bo or button. The roffys [roofs] garnyshed with sarsnettys and buddys of golde. Arnold's Chron . (1502), p. li. 3. The state of budding or putting forth buds: as, the trees are in bud. -4. In some cryptogamous plants, especially some Hepaticæ, one of the bodies formed asexually which become detached and reproduce the plant; in the plural, same as gemma. See gemma. - 5. A prominence on or in certain animals of low organization, as polyps, which becomes developed into an independent individual, sometimes perm a Buddhism nently attached to the parent organism, and sometimes becoming detached; an incipient zoöid, or bud-like beginning of a new individual in a compound animal. See cut under Cam panularia. -6. In zoöl. and an at., a part or organ like or likened to a bud: as, a tactile bud; a gustatory bud. -7. A weaned calf of the first year. Hall i well. [Prov. Eng.] -8. A young lady just "come out" in society. [Slang.] -Acce ory buds, buds supplementary to the normally soli axillary bud, either at its side or above it. - Adventitious buds, such buds as are produced abnormally and without order from any part of the stem or roots, or from leaves. Blind bud. See blind 1.- Bud-variation, in the outgrowth of a bud, the deviation in any respect from the ordinary growth of the plant, producing what is commonly known as a sport. Many remarkable varieties in cultivated plants arise in this way, and are perpetuated by any of the proce es of propagation by means of buds. Common bud. See common. Embryo buds. See embryo.-Gustatory buds. See taste -bud.-To nip in the bud. See nip. (bud),.; bud1 (bud), v.; pret. and pp. budded, ppr. bud ding. [ To put forth by of budding. ... From your swelling downs, where prickly furze Buds lavish gold. Keats , Endymion, i. II. in trans. 1. To put forth or produce buds; be in bud.-2. To be in the condition of a bud; sprout; begin to grow or to i ue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.-3. Figuratively, to be in an early stage of development. -4. To eat buds: said of birds. [U. S.] Last night I saw a number of grouse budding upon a neighboring apple tree. Forest and Stream, XXVIII. 131. Budding fungi, fungi which grow and reproduce by budding; chiefly, the yeast-fungi.