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verb

Budge v. i. (past & past part. budged; pres. part. budging) To move off; to stir; to walk away. "I'll not budge an inch, boy." "The mouse ne'er shunned the cat as they did budge From rascals worse than they."

noun

Budge n. A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on; used formerly as an edging and ornament, esp. of scholastic habits.

adjective

Budge adj. Brisk; stirring; jocund. (Obs.)

Budge adj.

Lined with budge; hence, scholastic. "Budge gowns."

Austere or stiff, like scholastics. "Those budge doctors of the stoic fur."

Budge bachelor, one of a company of men clothed in long gowns lined with budge, who formerly accompanied the lord mayor of London in his inaugural procession.

Budge barrel (Mil.), a small copper-hooped barrel with only one head, the other end being closed by a piece of leather, which is drawn together with strings like a purse. It is used for carrying powder from the magazine to the battery, in siege or seacoast service.

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... down beside the fire and fell asleep. While I slept a spark from the fire fell on the hair and burned it through. I fell to earth with such force that I sank into the ground up to my chest. I couldn't budge, so I was forced to go home and get a spade and dig myself out. On the way home I crossed a field where the reapers were cutting corn. The heat was so great that they had to stop work. "I'll get our mare," ...

— The Laughing Prince - Jugoslav Folk and Fairy Tales • Parker Fillmore

... way, While oft, with many a smile, and many a shrug, 25 He eyes the centre, where his friends sit snug; His simp'ring friends, with pleasure in their eyes, Sink as he sinks, and as he rises rise; He nods, they nod; he cringes, they grimace; But not a soul will budge to give him place. 30 Since then, unhelp'd, our bard must now conform 'To 'bide the pelting of this pitiless storm' — Blame where you must, be candid where you can; And be each critic the ...

— The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith • Oliver Goldsmith

... and she wears furs of vair. Also she wears shifts of cloth of Rennes, which costs sixteen pence the ell. Also she wears kirtles laced with silk and tiring pins of silver and silver gilt and has made all the nuns wear the like. Also she wears above her veil a cap of estate, furred with budge. Item, she has on her neck a long silken band, in English a lace, which hangs down below her breast and there on a golden ring with one diamond.[16] Is it not Madame Eglentyne to the life? Nothing ...

— Medieval People • Eileen Edna Power

... mercury rose to 174.9 deg. and stayed there. There is something definite and uncompromising about the boiling-point hypsometer; no tapping will make it rise or fall; it reaches its mark unmistakably and does not budge. The reading of the mercurial barometer is a slower and more delicate business. It takes a good light and a good sight to tell when the ivory zero-point is exactly touching the surface of the mercury in the cistern; it takes care and precision to get the ...

— The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) - A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest - Peak in North America • Hudson Stuck

... Tarpaulin before three o'clock. A remark dropped by Budge roused the curiosity of the others, and Percy was obliged once more to recount the story ...

— Jim Spurling, Fisherman - or Making Good • Albert Walter Tolman

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