BPage 325
- English Word Buttery Definition An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other provisions are kept.
- English Word Buttery Definition A room in some English colleges where liquors, fruit, and refreshments are kept for sale to the students.
- English Word Buttery Definition A cellar in which butts of wine are kept.
- English Word Butting Definition of But
- English Word Butting Definition of Butt
- English Word Butting Definition An abuttal; a boundary.
- English Word Butting joint Definition A joint between two pieces of timber or wood, at the end of one or both, and either at right angles or oblique to the grain, as the joints which the struts and braces form with the truss posts; -- sometimes called abutting joint.
- English Word Buttock Definition The part at the back of the hip, which, in man, forms one of the rounded protuberances on which he sits; the rump.
- English Word Buttock Definition The convexity of a ship behind, under the stern.
- English Word Button Definition A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
- English Word Button Definition A catch, of various forms and materials, used to fasten together the different parts of dress, by being attached to one part, and passing through a slit, called a buttonhole, in the other; -- used also for ornament.
- English Word Button Definition A bud; a germ of a plant.
- English Word Button Definition A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door.
- English Word Button Definition A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
- English Word Button Definition To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; -- often followed by up.
- English Word Button Definition To dress or clothe.
- English Word Button Definition To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button.
- English Word Buttonball Definition See Buttonwood.
- English Word Buttonbush Definition A shrub (Cephalanthus occidentalis) growing by the waterside; -- so called from its globular head of flowers. See Capitulum.
- English Word Buttoned Definition of Button
- English Word Buttonhole Definition The hole or loop in which a button is caught.
- English Word Buttonhole Definition To hold at the button or buttonhole; to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; as, he buttonholed me a quarter of an hour.
- English Word Buttoning Definition of Button
- English Word Buttonmold Definition A disk of bone, wood, or other material, which is made into a button by covering it with cloth.
- English Word Buttons Definition A boy servant, or page, -- in allusion to the buttons on his livery.
- English Word Buttonweed Definition The name of several plants of the genera Spermacoce and Diodia, of the Madder family.
- English Word Buttonwood Definition The Platanus occidentalis, or American plane tree, a large tree, producing rough balls, from which it is named; -- called also buttonball tree, and, in some parts of the United States, sycamore. The California buttonwood is P. racemosa.
- English Word Buttony Definition Ornamented with a large number of buttons.
- English Word Buttress Definition A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry.
- English Word Buttress Definition Anything which supports or strengthens.