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Button   /bˈətən/   Listen
noun
Button  n.  
1.
A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
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.
3.
A bud; a germ of a plant.
4.
A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door.
5.
A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
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.


verb
Button  v. t.  (past & past part. buttoned; pres. part. buttoning)  
1.
To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; often followed by up. "He was a tall, fat, long-bodied man, buttoned up to the throat in a tight green coat."
2.
To dress or clothe. (Obs.)


Button  v. i.  To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button.





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"Button" Quotes from Famous Books



... when you have heard me out," was the cool reply. "Now, sir," he continued, "were you to have known that it would be no hard task for me to mark any button on your vest, at any distance—that I have often notched a smaller mark, and that I am prepared to do so again, it might be that your prudence ...
— Charlemont • W. Gilmore Simms
... easily; "he has think most probably that you have lost something from you—a pin or a button, you know. When a woman runs so, that is ...
— A Woman's Will • Anne Warner
... room, Pilkins opened the box and took out the staring, funny kitten, long ago ravaged of his candy and minus one shoe-button eye. Pilkins ...
— Roads of Destiny • O. Henry
... 3. A small button of soft lead, judged to be of sufficient size to fill the vent at least one inch from the bore. This is to be pierced lengthwise to receive ...
— Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. - 1866. Fourth edition. • Bureau of Ordnance, USN
... and was politely and suavely bowing them out of another door, at the same time by pressing a button signifying to his attendant ...
— Constance Dunlap • Arthur B. Reeve


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