bud¹ n E B WHITE Essays (New York, 1977), p. 11 'A spruce "bud" in Maine parlance is a spruce cone.' The cone of a spruce tree.
   [1749] 1755 DOUGLASS i, 293n Spruce-leaves and buds decocted in place of hops, make an agreeable beer or drink, and is esteemed good in the scurvy. 1953 Nfld & Lab Pilot ii, 299 Balsam Bud cove, a small inlet, indents the coast half a mile south-westwards of Pigeon island. T 141/67-65² To bark an ordinary trap you wants two barrels o' buds. T 172/5-65 You had to pick those buds off of the tops [of the trees] and put those buds into this bark pot, and when he'd boil, and that steep out, that was the way you barked your trap. C 75-139 The decorations for the Christmas tree were made out of objects, e.g. reels of thread, tinsel-covered buds of trees, etc. 1979 TIZZARD 277 When my father boiled the kettle he usually put a couple of spruce buds in the kettle with the tea leaves and this made for a good cup of tea.

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