BURGEON • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Burgeon

... from the succession of leaders year by year they have imaged a spirit leader greatest of all. He is "lord of all that is wet and gleaming," for the May bough, we remember, is drenched with dew and water that it may burgeon and blossom. Then they chant the tale of how of old a child was taken away from its mother, taken by armed men to be initiated, armed men dancing their tribal dance. The stone is unhappily broken here, but enough remains ...

— Ancient Art and Ritual • Jane Ellen Harrison