BPage 485
- English Word Butt Definition To thrust the head forward; to strike by thrusting the head forward, as an ox or a ram. [See Butt, n.]
- English Word Butt Definition To strike by thrusting the head against; to strike with the head.
- English Word Butt Definition A large cask or vessel for wine or beer. It contains two hogsheads.
- English Word Butt Definition The common English flounder.
- English Word Butt hinge Definition See 1st Butt, 10.
- English Word Butt joint Definition A joint in which the edges or ends of the pieces united come squarely together instead of overlapping. See 1st Butt, 8.
- English Word Butt shaft Definition An arrow without a barb, for shooting at butts; an arrow.
- English Word Butt weld Definition See Butt weld, under Butt.
- English Word Butte Definition A detached low mountain, or high rising abruptly from the general level of the surrounding plain; -- applied to peculiar elevations in the Rocky Mountain region.
- English Word Butted Definition of But
- 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.