Sc. Obs. [prob. var. of bod, BODE an offering, f. ppl. stem of OE. béodan (see BID v.) to offer.] A bribe. Also in comb. bud-taker.
1436. Acts Jas. I., clv. (Jam.). All jugeis sall gar the assysouris sweir … that thay nouther haue tane, nor sall tak meid na buddis of ony partie.
1535. Lyndesay, Satyre, 1616. I am ane Iudge … Na bud nor fauour may my sicht oversyle.
1579. Act Jas. VI. (1597), § 93. The saidis Bud-takeris, to be displaced and deprived simpliciter of their offices.
a. 1651. Calderwood, Hist. Kirk (Wodrow), III. 394. They acquired wealth by taking budds from such as had sutes to him.
