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noun

Butter n.

1.

An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning.

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.

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.

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)

Butter n. One who, or that which, butts.

verb

Butter v. t. (past & past part. buttered; pres. part. buttering)

1.

To cover or spread with butter. "I know what's what. I know on which side My bread is buttered."

2.

To increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game. (Cant)

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— Captains of Industry - or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money • James Parton

... brought about by some of the usual means: as time, and love of novelty, etc. I am still very obstinate and persist in my practices. I do not think Stark is an instance of vegetable diet: consider how many things he tried grossly animal: lard, and butter, and fat: besides thwarting Nature in every way by eating when he wanted not to eat, and the contrary. Besides the editor says in the preface that he thinks his death was brought about as much by vexation as by the course of his diet: but I suppose the truth is that vexation could ...

— Letters of Edward FitzGerald - in two volumes, Vol. 1 • Edward FitzGerald

... of Zack Shalliday, and the way he got wedded," came the unctuous chuckle. "Zack was a man 'bout my age, and his daughter was a-keepin' house for him. She was a fine hand to work; the best butter maker on the Unakas; Zack always traded his butter for a extry price. But old as Sis Shalliday was—she must 'a' been all of twenty-seven —along comes a man that takes a notion to her. She named it to Zack. 'All right,' says he, 'you give me to-morrow to hunt me up one that's as good a butter ...

— The Power and the Glory • Grace MacGowan Cooke

... Seventy-seventh reaped and bound in the fields, while the good ladies worked day and night to make bread and cakes for the veterans, who had so long been accustomed to diet on pork and hard tack. Soft bread, milk, poultry and the staple luxury of Pennsylvania, apple butter, was a glorious improvement on the usual bill of camp fare, and kind sympathizing Union people were much better calculated to render our stay among them agreeable, than the bitter rebels among whom we had so ...

— Three Years in the Sixth Corps • George T. Stevens

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