Mary-bud
English
Noun
- (obsolete) A marigold or its blossom.
- Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act II, Scene 3, ll. 23-26
- And winking Mary-buds begin / To ope their golden eyes: / With every thing that pretty is, / My lady sweet, arise.
- Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act II, Scene 3, ll. 23-26
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for Mary-bud in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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