Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 98
Butt (n.) A large cask or vessel for wine or beer. It contains two hogsheads.
Note: A wine butt contains 126 wine gallons (= 105 imperial gallons, nearly); a beer butt 108 ale gallons (= about 110 imperial gallons).
Butt (n.) (Zool.) The common English flounder.
Butt (n.) Thick end of the handle [syn: butt, butt end]
Butt (n.) The part of a plant from which the roots spring or the part of a stalk or trunk nearest the roots.
Butt (n.) A victim of ridicule or pranks [syn: butt, goat, laughingstock, stooge].
Butt (n.) The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates, 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].
Butt (n.) Sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at [syn: target, butt].
Butt (n.) Finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking [syn: cigarette, cigaret, coffin nail, butt, fag].
Butt (n.) A joint made by fastening ends together without overlapping [syn: butt joint, butt].
Butt (n.) A large cask (especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 hogsheads or 126 gallons)
Butt (n.) The small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking) [syn: butt, stub].
Butt (v.) Lie adjacent to another or share a boundary; "Canada adjoins the U.S."; "England marches with Scotland" [syn: border, adjoin, edge, abut, march, butt, butt against, butt on].
Butt (v.) To strike, thrust or shove against; "He butted his sister out of the way"; "The goat butted the hiker with his horns" [syn: butt, bunt].
Butt (v.) Place end to end without overlapping; "The frames must be butted at the joints".
BUTT. () A measure of capacity, equal to one hundred and eight gallons. See Measure.
Butte (n.) 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.
Butter (n.) An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning.
Butter (n.) 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.
Buttered (imp. & p. p.) of Butter
Buttering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Butter
Butter (v. t.) To cover or spread with butter.
Butter (v. t.) To increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game.
Butter (n.) One who, or that which, butts.
Butterball (n.) The buffel duck.
Butterbird (n.) The rice bunting or bobolink; -- so called in the island of Jamaica.
Butterbump (n.) The European bittern.
Butterbur (n.) A broad-leaved plant (Petasites vulgaris) of the Composite family, said to have been used in England for wrapping up pats of butter.
Buttercup (n.) 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.
Butter-fingered (a.) Apt to let things fall, or to let them slip away; slippery; careless.
Butterfish (n.) 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.
Butterflies (n. pl. ) of Butterfly
Butterfly (n.) [C] 蝴蝶；衣著豔麗的人，輕浮多變的人（尤指女性）；追求享樂的人 A general name for the numerous species of diurnal Lepidoptera.
Butterfly (n.) Diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings.
Butterfly (n.) A swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down [syn: {butterfly}, {butterfly stroke}].
Butterfly (v.) Flutter like a butterfly.
Butterfly (v.) Cut and spread open, as in preparation for cooking; "butterflied shrimp".
Butterfly (v.) Talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions; "The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries"; "My husband never flirts with other women" [syn: {chat up}, {flirt}, {dally}, {butterfly}, {coquet}, {coquette}, {romance}, {philander}, {mash}].
Butterine (n.) A substance prepared from animal fat with some other ingredients intermixed, as an imitation of butter.
Butteris (n.) 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.
Buttermen (n. pl. ) of Butterman
Butterman (n.) A man who makes or sells butter.
Buttermilk (n.) The milk that remains after the butter is separated from the cream.
Butternut (n.) 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.
Butternut (n.) The nut of the Caryocar butyrosum and C. nuciferum, of S. America; -- called also Souari nut.
Butter-scotch (n.) A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter.
Butterweed (n.) An annual composite plant of the Mississippi valley (Senecio lobatus).
Butterweight (n.) Over weight.
Butterwort (n.) 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.
Buttery (a.) Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter.
Butteries (n. pl. ) of Buttery
Buttery (n.) An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other provisions are kept.
Buttery (n.) A room in some English colleges where liquors, fruit, and refreshments are kept for sale to the students.
Buttery (n.) A cellar in which butts of wine are kept.
Butt hinge () See 1st Butt, 10.
But-thorn (n.) The common European starfish (Asterias rubens).
Butting (n.) An abuttal; a boundary.
Butting joint () 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.
Butt joint () A joint in which the edges or ends of the pieces united come squarely together instead of overlapping. See 1st Butt, 8.
Buttock (n.) The part at the back of the hip, which, in man, forms one of the rounded protuberances on which he sits; the rump.
Buttock (n.) The convexity of a ship behind, under the stern.
Button (n.) A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
Button (n.) 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.
Button (n.) A bud; a germ of a plant.
Button (n.) A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door.
Button (n.) A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
Buttoned (imp. & p. p.) of Button
Buttoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Button
Button (n.) To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; -- often followed by up.
Button (n.) To dress or clothe.
Button (v. i.) To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button.
Buttonball (n.) See Buttonwood.
Buttonbush (n.) A shrub (Cephalanthus occidentalis) growing by the waterside; -- so called from its globular head of flowers. See Capitulum.
Buttonhole (n.) The hole or loop in which a button is caught.
Buttonhole (v. t.) To hold at the button or buttonhole; to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; as, he buttonholed me a quarter of an hour.
Buttonmold (n.) A disk of bone, wood, or other material, which is made into a button by covering it with cloth.
Buttons (n.) A boy servant, or page, -- in allusion to the buttons on his livery.
Buttonweed (n.) The name of several plants of the genera Spermacoce and Diodia, of the Madder family.
Buttonwood (n.) 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.
Buttony (a.) Ornamented with a large number of buttons.
Buttress (n.) A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry.
Buttress (n.) Anything which supports or strengthens.
Buttressed (imp. & p. p.) of Buttress
Buttressing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Buttress
Buttress (v. t.) To support with a buttress; to prop; to brace firmly.
Butt shaft () An arrow without a barb, for shooting at butts; an arrow.
Butt weld () See Butt weld, under Butt.
Buttweld (v. t.) To unite by a butt weld.
Butty (n.) One who mines by contract, at so much per ton of coal or ore.
Butyl (n.) A compound radical, regarded as butane, less one atom of hydrogen.
Butylene (n.) Any one of three metameric hydrocarbons, C4H8, of the ethylene series. They are gaseous or easily liquefiable.
Butyraceous (a.) 奶油的 Having the qualities of butter; resembling butter.
Butyraceous (a.) Having the qualities of butter or yielding or containing a substance like butter.
Butyrate (n.) A salt of butyric acid.
Butyric (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, butter.
Butyrin (n.) A butyrate of glycerin; a fat contained in small quantity in milk, which helps to give to butter its peculiar flavor.
Butyrometer (n.) An instrument for determining the amount of fatty matter or butter contained in a sample of milk.
Butyrone (n.) A liquid ketone obtained by heating calcium butyrate.
Butyrous (a.) Butyraceous.
Buxeous (a.) Belonging to the box tree.
Buxine (n.) An alkaloid obtained from the Buxus sempervirens, or common box tree. It is identical with bebeerine; -- called also buxina.
Buxom (a.) 體型豐滿的 Yielding; pliable or compliant; ready to obey; obedient; tractable; docile; meek; humble. [Obs.]
So wild a beast, so tame ytaught to be, And buxom to his bands, is joy to see. -- Spenser.
I submit myself unto this holy church of Christ, to be ever buxom and obedient to the ordinance of it. -- Foxe.
Buxom (a.) Having the characteristics of health, vigor, and comeliness, combined with a gay, lively manner; stout and rosy; jolly; frolicsome.
A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. -- Milton.
A parcel of buxom bonny dames, that were laughing, singing, dancing, and as merry as the day was long. -- Tatler.
Buxom (a.) Having a pronounced womanly shape. [chiefly dialect]
Syn: bosomy, curvaceous, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, voluptuous. -- {Bux"om*ly}, adv. -- {Bux"om*ness}, n.
Buxom (a.) (Of a woman's body) Having a large bosom and pleasing curves; "Hollywood seems full of curvaceous blondes"; "a curvy young woman in a tight dress" [syn: {bosomy}, {busty}, {buxom}, {curvaceous}, {curvy}, {full-bosomed}, {sonsie}, {sonsy}, {stacked}, {voluptuous}, {well- endowed}].
Buxom (a.) (Of a female body) Healthily plump and vigorous ; "a generation ago...buxom actresses were popular"- Robt.A.Hamilton; [syn: {buxom}, {zaftig}, {zoftig}].
Bought (imp. & p. p.) of Buy
Buying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Buy
Buy (v. t.) To acquire the ownership of (property) by giving an accepted price or consideration therefor, or by agreeing to do so; to acquire by the payment of a price or value; to purchase; -- opposed to sell.
Buy (v. t.) To acquire or procure by something given or done in exchange, literally or figuratively; to get, at a cost or sacrifice; to buy pleasure with pain.
Buy (v. i.) To negotiate or treat about a purchase.
Buyer (n.) One who buys; a purchaser.
Buz (v. & n.) See Buzz.
Buzzed (imp. & p. p.) of Buzz
Buzzing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Buzz
Buzz (v. i.) To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings. Hence: To utter a murmuring sound; to speak with a low, humming voice.
Buzz (v. t.) To sound forth by buzzing.
Buzz (v. t.) To whisper; to communicate, as tales, in an under tone; to spread, as report, by whispers, or secretly.
Buzz (v. t.) To talk to incessantly or confidentially in a low humming voice.
Buzz (v. t.) To sound with a "buzz".
Buzz (n.) A continuous, humming noise, as of bees; a confused murmur, as of general conversation in low tones, or of a general expression of surprise or approbation.
Buzz (n.) A whisper; a report spread secretly or cautiously.
Buzz (n.) The audible friction of voice consonants.