budge

Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Origin: F. bouger to stir, move (akin to Pr. bojar, bolegar, to stir, move, It. bulicare to boil, bubble), fr. L. bullire. See Boil, intransitive verb

To move off; to stir; to walk away.

I'll not budge an inch, boy.— William Shakespeare

The mouse ne'er shunned the cat as they did budge From rascals worse than they.— William Shakespeare

Origin: See Budge, verb

Brisk; stirring; jocund. obsolete Robert South

Origin: OE. bouge bag, OF. boge, bouge, fr. L. bulga a leathern bag or knapsack; a Gallic word; cf. OIr. bolc, Gael. bolg. Cf. Budge, noun

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

1. Lined with budge; hence, scholastic. “Budge gowns.” John Milton

2. Austere or stiff, like scholastics.

Those budge doctors of the stoic fur.— John Milton

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 Military, 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.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54