n. The butting or boundary of land, particularly at the end; a headland. Spelman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, abuts. Specifically, the owner of a contiguous estate; as, the abutters on a street or a river. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or }. (Med.) Same as Aden ulcer. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. + AS ]

(Med.) A chronic contagious affection of the skin, prevalent in the tropics. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

(Bot.) A plant with flowers shaped like buttons; especially, several species of Ranunculus, and the cornflower (Centaurea cyanus) and globe amaranth (Gomphrena). [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Bachelor's buttons, a name given to several flowers “from their similitude to the jagged cloathe buttons, anciently worne in this kingdom, ” according to Johnson's Gerarde, p. 472 (1633); but by other writers ascribed to “a habit of country fellows to carry them in their pockets to divine their success with their sweethearts.” Dr. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

, n. The depression in the middle of the abdomen in humans left as a residue of the umbilical cord; the umbilicus; the navel{ 1 }. [ PJC ]

{ }. [ Named after the town Biskara, in Algeria. ] (Med.) Same as Aleppo boil. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } n. [ F. but butt, aim (cf. butte knoll), or bout, OF. bot, end, extremity, fr. boter, buter, to push, butt, strike, F. bouter; of German origin; cf. OHG. bōzan, akin to E. beat. See Beat, v. t. ] 1. A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end. [ 1913 Webster ]

Here is my journey's end, here my butt
And very sea mark of my utmost sail. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ As applied to land, the word is nearly synonymous with mete, and signifies properly the end line or boundary; the abuttal. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The larger or thicker end of anything; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp end; as, the butt of a rifle. Formerly also spelled but. See 2nd but, n. sense 2. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

3. A mark to be shot at; a target. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

The groom his fellow groom at butts defies,
And bends his bow, and levels with his eyes. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed; as, the butt of the company. [ 1913 Webster ]

I played a sentence or two at my butt, which I thought very smart. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head of an animal; as, the butt of a ram. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A thrust in fencing. [ 1913 Webster ]

To prove who gave the fairer butt,
John shows the chalk on Robert's coat. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field. [ 1913 Webster ]

The hay was growing upon headlands and butts in cornfields. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Mech.) (a) A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering; -- also called butt joint. (b) The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib. (c) The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. (Shipbuilding) The joint where two planks in a strake meet. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. (Carp.) A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc.; -- so named because fastened on the edge of the door, which butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt hinge. [ 1913 Webster ]

11. (Leather Trade) The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks. [ 1913 Webster ]

12. The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice. [ 1913 Webster ]

13. The buttocks; as, get up off your butt and get to work; -- used as a euphemism, less objectionable than ass. [ slang ]
Syn. -- ass, rear end, derriere, behind, rump, heinie. [ PJC ]

Butt chain (Saddlery), a short chain attached to the end of a tug. --
Butt end. The thicker end of anything. See But end, under 2d But. [ 1913 Webster ]

Amen; and make me die a good old man!
That's the butt end of a mother's blessing. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A butt's length, the ordinary distance from the place of shooting to the butt, or mark. --
Butts and bounds (Conveyancing), abuttals and boundaries. In lands of the ordinary rectangular shape, butts are the lines at the ends (F. bouts), and bounds are those on the sides, or sidings, as they were formerly termed. Burrill. --
Bead and butt. See under Bead. --
Butt and butt, joining end to end without overlapping, as planks. --
Butt weld (Mech.), a butt joint, made by welding together the flat ends, or edges, of a piece of iron or steel, or of separate pieces, without having them overlap. See Weld. --
Full butt, headfirst with full force. [ Colloq. ] “The corporal . . . ran full butt at the lieutenant.” Marryat. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To strike by thrusting the head against; to strike with the head. [ 1913 Webster ]

Two harmless lambs are butting one the other. Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Butted; p. pr. & vb. n. Butting. ] [ OE. butten, OF. boter to push, F. bouter. See Butt an end, and cf. Boutade. ] 1. To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut. [ Written also but. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And Barnsdale there doth butt on Don's well-watered ground. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To thrust the head forward; to strike by thrusting the head forward, as an ox or a ram. [ See Butt, n. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A snow-white steer before thine altar led,
Butts with his threatening brows. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. botte, boute, LL. butta. Cf. Bottle a hollow vessel. ] A large cask or vessel for wine or beer. It contains two hogsheads. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ A wine butt contains 126 wine gallons (= 105 imperial gallons, nearly); a beer butt 108 ale gallons (= about 110 imperial gallons). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The common English flounder. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. See Butt a bound. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The creek . . . passes by two remarkable buttes of red conglomerate. Ruxton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. botere, butter, AS. butere, fr. L. butyrum, Gr. boy`turon; either fr. boy`s ox, cow + turo`s cheese; or, perhaps, of Scythian origin. Cf. Cow. ] 1. An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Butter boat, a small vessel for holding melted butter at table. --
Butter flower, the buttercup, a yellow flower. --
Butter print, a piece of carved wood used to mark pats of butter; -- called also butter stamp. Locke. --
Butter tooth, either of the two middle incisors of the upper jaw. --
Butter tree (Bot.), a tree of the genus Bassia, the seeds of which yield a substance closely resembling butter. The butter tree of India is the Bassia butyracea; that of Africa is the Shea tree (Bassia Parkii). See Shea tree. --
Butter trier, a tool used in sampling butter. --
Butter wife, a woman who makes or sells butter; -- called also butter woman. [ Obs. or Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Buttered (&unr_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Buttering. ] 1. To cover or spread with butter. [ 1913 Webster ]

I know what's what. I know on which side
My bread is buttered. Ford. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game. [ Cant ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, butts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.(Bot.), a name given to several perennial plants having showy flowers of two shades of yellow, or of yellow and orange, such as Narcissus incomparabilis in Europe, and the toadflax (Linaria vulgaris) in the United States; the latter is a naturalized weed in North America.
Syn. -- toadflax, wild snapdragon, devil's flax, Linaria vulgaris. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) 1. The buffel duck. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. a fat person or animal. [ informal ] [ PJC ]

3. a lump of butter rounded into a ball. [ PJC ]

4. [ Trademark ] a plump chicken or turkey prepared for cooking. [ PJC ]

n. (Zool.) The rice bunting or bobolink; -- so called in the island of Jamaica. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. buttur the bittern + 5th bump. ] (Zool.) The European bittern. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A broad-leaved plant (Petasites vulgaris) of the Composite family, said to have been used in England for wrapping up pats of butter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Ranunculus, or crowfoot, particularly Ranunculus bulbosus, with bright yellow flowers; -- called also butterflower, golden cup, and kingcup. It is the cuckoobud of Shakespeare. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the fatty substance of milk from which butter is made. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Apt to let things fall, or to let them slip away; not skillful in using the hands; slippery; careless.
Syn. -- bumbling, bungling, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. someone who drops things (especially one who cannot catch a ball); a person who is butter-fingered. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus.
Syn. -- buttercup, crowfoot, goldcup, kingcup. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Butterflies [ Perh. from the color of a yellow species. AS. buter-flēge, buttor-fleóge; cf. G. butterfliege, D. botervlieg. See Butter, and Fly. ] (Zool.) A general name for the numerous species of diurnal Lepidoptera. [ See Illust. under Aphrodite. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Asclepias butterfly. See under Asclepias. --
Butterfly fish (Zool.), the ocellated blenny (Blennius ocellaris) of Europe. See Blenny. The term is also applied to the flying gurnard. --
Butterfly shell (Zool.), a shell of the genus Voluta. --
Butterfly valve (Mech.), a kind of double clack valve, consisting of two semicircular clappers or wings hinged to a cross rib in the pump bucket. When open it somewhat resembles a butterfly in shape. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. tropical gurnardlike fish with huge fanlike pectoral fins for underwater gliding; unrelated to searobins.
Syn. -- flying gurnard, flying robin. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A substance prepared from animal fat with some other ingredients intermixed, as an imitation of butter. [ 1913 Webster ]

The manufacturers ship large quantities of oleomargarine to England, Holland, and other countries, to be manufactured into butter, which is sold as butterine or suine. Johnson's Cyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ The same word as buttress, noun, in a different application, F. bouter to push. ] (Far.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Buttermen A man who makes or sells butter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The milk that remains after the butter is separated from the cream. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Bot.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) The nut of the Caryocar butyrosum and Caryocar nuciferum, of S. America; -- called also Souari nut. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. tall annual herb or subshrub of tropical Asia having velvety leaves and yellow flowers and yielding a strong fiber; naturalized in SE Europe and US.
Syn. -- velvetleaf, velvetweed, Indian mallow, China jute, Abutilon theophrasti. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter. [ Colloq. ] Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) An annual composite plant of the Mississippi valley (Senecio lobatus). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Over weight. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Formerly it was a custom to give 18 ounces of butter for a pound. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Butteries [ OE. botery, botry; cf. LL. botaria wine vessel; also OE. botelerie, fr. F. bouteillerie, fr. boutellie bottle. Not derived from butter. See Bottle a hollow vessel, Butt a cask. ] 1. An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other provisions are kept. [ 1913 Webster ]

All that need a cool and fresh temper, as cellars, pantries, and butteries, to the north. Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A room in some English colleges where liquors, fruit, and refreshments are kept for sale to the students. [ 1913 Webster ]

And the major Oxford kept the buttery bar. E. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A cellar in which butts of wine are kept. Weale. [ 1913 Webster ]

Buttery hatch, a half door between the buttery or kitchen and the hall, in old mansions, over which provisions were passed. Wright. [ 1913 Webster ]

See 1st Butt, 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An abuttal; a boundary. [ 1913 Webster ]

Without buttings or boundings on any side. Bp. Beveridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

A joint in which the edges or ends of the pieces united come squarely together instead of overlapping. See 1st Butt, 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Butt an end. ] 1. The part at the back of the hip, which, in man, forms one of the rounded protuberances on which he sits; the rump. Often used in the plural -- see buttocks.
Syn. -- cheek. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) The convexity of a ship behind, under the stern. Mar. Dict. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. the fleshy part of the human body at the back of the hip, on which a person sits.
Syn. -- arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. boton, botoun, F. bouton button, bud, prop. something pushing out, fr. bouter to push. See Butt an end. ] 1. A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A bud; a germ of a plant. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Button hook, a hook for catching a button and drawing it through a buttonhole, as in buttoning boots and gloves. --
Button shell (Zool.), a small, univalve marine shell of the genus Rotella. --
Button snakeroot. (Bot.) (a) The American composite genus Liatris, having rounded buttonlike heads of flowers. (b) An American umbelliferous plant with rigid, narrow leaves, and flowers in dense heads. --
Button tree (Bot.), a genus of trees (Conocarpus), furnishing durable timber, mostly natives of the West Indies. --
To hold by the button, to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; to buttonhole. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Buttoned p. pr. & vb. n. Buttoning ] [ OE. botonen, OF. botoner, F. boutonner. See Button, n. ] 1. To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; -- often followed by up. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was a tall, fat, long-bodied man, buttoned up to the throat in a tight green coat. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To dress or clothe. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button. [ 1913 Webster ]