budgero, budgerow (bujro)

[Anglo-Ind., also bajra, repr. Hind. bajrā, a kind of pleasure boat.] A lumbering keelle barge, formerly much used by Europe ans traveling on the Gangetic rivers. Yule and Burnell. Also budgero boat, buggerow - boat. They [the ladies of Calcutta).. went upon the river in budgerows and diverted themselves with fishing or fowling. J. T. Wheeler, Short Hist. India, p. 200. budget (buj'et), n. [Early mod. E. also bow get ; bougette (= It. bolgetta ), dim. of OF. bouge , a bag: see budge2 . Hence, in sense 4, D. and F. budget .] 1. A small bag or sack; a pouch or portable depository for miscellaneous articles: now chiefly figurative: as, to open a budget of news. IMG:content-2689.png:[blocks in formation] 2. A stock or store; a collection: as, a budget of news. It was nature, in fine, that brought off the cat, when the fox's whole budget of invention failed him. Sir R. L'Estrange. There is no miracle in the whole Roman Catholic bud get better vouched than this. Pre scott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 21. 3. A pocket used by tilers to hold nails.-4. In Great Britain, the annual financial statement which the chancellor of the exchequer makes in the House of Commons, sitting as a committee of ways and means. In making this statement the minister gives a view of the general financial policy of the government, and at the same time presents an est i mate of the probable income and expenditure for the fol lowing twelve months, and a statement of what taxes it is intended to reduce or abolish, or what new ones it may be nece ary to impose. His [Ælfred's] budget is the first royal budget we po e ; and though the fact that the national expenses were still in the main defrayed by local means renders any comparison of it with a modern budget impo ible, it is still of interest as indicating the wide range of public activity which even now was open to an English king. J. R. Green, Conq. of Eng., p. 173. Hence-5. Any similar official estimate and statement. [The word in this specific sense has been adopted into the French language.] -To open the budget, to lay before the legislative body the financial estimates and plans of the executive government. budgyt (buj'i), a. [