Sc. [f. BUD sb.2] trans. To bribe.
c. 1565. Lindesay (Pitscottie), Cron. Scotl. (1728), 148. They budded the king to bide at home.
1582–8. Hist. Jas. VI. (1804), 198. Moirtoun … buddit Tullybardin with the office of the Comptroller.
1636. Rutherford, Lett., lxiii. (1862), I. 169. To bud and bribe the Cross.
1657. [see BUDDING vbl. sb.2].
Bud v. Sc. = must: see BUS v.
