BPage 324
- English Word Butted Definition of Butt
- English Word Butter Definition An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning.
- English Word Butter Definition Any substance resembling butter in degree of consistence, or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the chlorides, as butter of antimony, sesquichloride of antimony; also, certain concrete fat oils remaining nearly solid at ordinary temperatures, as butter of cacao, vegetable butter, shea butter.
- English Word Butter Definition To cover or spread with butter.
- English Word Butter Definition To increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game.
- English Word Butter Definition One who, or that which, butts.
- English Word Butter-fingered Definition Apt to let things fall, or to let them slip away; slippery; careless.
- English Word Butter-scotch Definition A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter.
- English Word Butterball Definition The buffel duck.
- English Word Butterbird Definition The rice bunting or bobolink; -- so called in the island of Jamaica.
- English Word Butterbump Definition The European bittern.
- English Word Butterbur Definition A broad-leaved plant (Petasites vulgaris) of the Composite family, said to have been used in England for wrapping up pats of butter.
- English Word Buttercup Definition A plant of the genus Ranunculus, or crowfoot, particularly R. bulbosus, with bright yellow flowers; -- called also butterflower, golden cup, and kingcup. It is the cuckoobud of Shakespeare.
- English Word Buttered Definition of Butter
- English Word Butterfish Definition A name given to several different fishes, in allusion to their slippery coating of mucus, as the Stromateus triacanthus of the Atlantic coast, the Epinephelus punctatus of the southern coast, the rock eel, and the kelpfish of New Zealand.
- English Word Butterflies Definition of Butterfly
- English Word Butterfly Definition A general name for the numerous species of diurnal Lepidoptera.
- English Word Butteries Definition of Buttery
- English Word Butterine Definition A substance prepared from animal fat with some other ingredients intermixed, as an imitation of butter.
- English Word Buttering Definition of Butter
- English Word Butteris Definition A steel cutting instrument, with a long bent shank set in a handle which rests against the shoulder of the operator. It is operated by a thrust movement, and used in paring the hoofs of horses.
- English Word Butterman Definition A man who makes or sells butter.
- English Word Buttermen Definition of Butterman
- English Word Buttermilk Definition The milk that remains after the butter is separated from the cream.
- English Word Butternut Definition An American tree (Juglans cinerea) of the Walnut family, and its edible fruit; -- so called from the oil contained in the latter. Sometimes called oil nut and white walnut.
- English Word Butternut Definition The nut of the Caryocar butyrosum and C. nuciferum, of S. America; -- called also Souari nut.
- English Word Butterweed Definition An annual composite plant of the Mississippi valley (Senecio lobatus).
- English Word Butterweight Definition Over weight.
- English Word Butterwort Definition A genus of low herbs (Pinguicula) having simple leaves which secrete from their glandular upper surface a viscid fluid, to which insects adhere, after which the margin infolds and the insects are digested by the plant. The species are found mostly in the North Temperate zone.
- English Word Buttery Definition Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter.