budge

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To move or stir slightly: The trapped child was stuck tight and couldn't budge.
2. v. To alter a position or attitude: had made the decision and wouldn't budge.
3. v. To cause to move slightly.
4. v. To cause to alter a position or attitude: an adamant critic who couldn't be budged.
5. n. Fur made from lambskin dressed with the wool outside, formerly used to trim academic robes.
6. adj. Archaic Overformal; pompous.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To move; stir; change position; give way: now usually with a negative, implying stubborn resistance to pressure.
2. To move; stir; change the position of.
3. Brisk; jocund.
4. n. A leathern bag.
5. n. Lambskin dressed with the wool outward, much used in the Elizabethan era and since as an inexpensive fur for the edging of garments. In England some official costumes that have remained unchanged are still decorated with budge.
6. n. Same as budge-barrel.
7. [⟨ budge, 2.] Trimmed or adorned with budge (see I., 2): as, “budge gowns,”
8. Scholastic; pedantic; austere; surly; stiff; formal: as, “budge doctors,”
9. n. One who slips into a house or shop to steal cloaks, etc.; a sneak-thief.
10. n. Same as booze.

Wiktionary

1. n. A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on, formerly used as an edging and ornament, especially on scholastic habits.
2. adj. obsolete austere or stiff, like scholastics
3. v. intransitive To move.
4. v. transitive To move.
5. v. To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs.
6. v. To try to improve the spot of a decision on a sports field.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To move off; to stir; to walk away.
2. adj. obsolete Brisk; stirring; jocund.
3. n. A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on; -- used formerly as an edging and ornament, esp. of scholastic habits.
4. adj. Lined with budge; hence, scholastic.
5. adj. Austere or stiff, like scholastics.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. move very slightly
2. n. United States tennis player who in 1938 was the first to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles championship in the same year (1915-2000)