| butterine | A substance prepared from animal fat with some other ingredients intermixed, as an imitation of butter. "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) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| butteris | <veterinary> 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. Origin: The same word as buttress, noun, in a different application, F. Bouter to push. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| buttermilk | The fluid containing casein and lactic acid, left after the process of making butter. (05 Mar 2000) |
| butternut | 1. <botany> 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. 2. <botany> The nut of the Caryocar butyrosum and C. Nuciferum, of S. America. Synonym: Souari nut. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| butterweed | <botany> An annual composite plant of the Mississippi valley (Senecio lobatus). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| butterwort | <botany> 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| buttery | Origin: 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. "All that need a cool and fresh temper, as cellars, pantries, and butteries, to the north." (Sir H. Wotton) 2. A room in some English colleges where liquors, fruit, and refreshments are kept for sale to the students. "And the major Oxford kept the buttery bar." (E. Hall) 3. A cellar in which butts of wine are kept. Buttery hatch, a half door between the buttery or kitchen and the hall, in old mansions, over which provisions were passed. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| buttock | 1. The part at the back of the hip, which, in man, forms one of the rounded protuberances on which he sits; the rump. 2. The convexity of a ship behind, under the stern. Origin: From Butt an end. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| buttocks | The buttocks; the prominence formed by the gluteal muscles on either side. Synonym: clunes, nates, breech. (05 Mar 2000) |
| button | 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 onan 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. <zoology> Button shell, a small, univalve marine shell of the genus Rotella. Button snakeroot. <botany> 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. Origin: OE. Boton, botoun, F. Bouton button, bud, prop. Something pushing out, fr. Bouter to push. See Butt an end. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| button suture | A suture in which the threads are passed through the holes of a button and then tied; used to reduce the danger of the threads cutting through the flesh. (05 Mar 2000) |
| buttonball | <botany> See Buttonwood. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| buttonbush | <botany> A shrub (Cephalanthus occidentalis) growing by the waterside; so called from its globular head of flowers. See Capitulum. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| buttonhole | 1. A short straight cut made through the wall of a cavity or canal. 2. The contraction of an orifice down to a narrow slit; i.e., the so-called mitral buttonhole in extreme mitral stenosis. See: buttonhole stenosis. (05 Mar 2000) |