but 
And also be we very sure, that a lie [Hod] lu^iimeth to 
worke with vs, so (but \f our selfe nit from him) In- wll 
licit fllile tn lill'ie with VS. 
Sir T. Mure, nuufort ugainst TrilniUtlon (l!>7:t), ("I. IT. 
The. phrase Intt that, often abbreviated to turf, tlius takes 
an extended meuilinK- (") If not ; unless. 
Bofr icll IK holly at thyn hcsto, let honge me elly.s ! 
I'iert I'luii'iini,, (C), Iv. 14(1. 
(A) Except that, otherwliie than that, that . . . not. <ij 
After negative clauses. 
,Sildo1iie 'nil .Mime V'"l i-ouilllelh ere tile end. 
*,.', Mother Huh. Tnle, 1. 172. 
I see not then '"'' we should enjoy the same license. 
//. Jututvii. 
And know there sdmll l)c nothing in niy power 
\ on may deserve, but you shall have your wishes. 
Beau, aiul AY., I'liilaster, v. 4. 
Nor fate 
Shall alter it, since now the die is cast, 
But that this hour to I'onipey U his last 
/'/</. 7ir/' (ntl'l riii'it/" i I, laU. Oil.', i. 1. 
Believe not but I joy to see thee safe. Rouv. 
I was not so young when my father died but that I per- 
fectly remember him. Byron. 
The negative clause Is often represented hy the single 
word not. 
Hot bvt they thought me worth a ransom. 
S. Butler, Hudlbras. 
An expletive what sometimes, hut incorrectly, follows. 
Not but what I hold it our duty never to foster Into a 
passion what we must rather submit to as an awful neces- 
sity. /.'"/"'V. 
(2) After interrogative clauses Implying a negative an- 
swer. 
But is it suffered arnongest them? It is wonderfull but 
that the governours doe redresse such shamefull abuses. 
Sprnwr, State of Ireland. 
Who knows but we may make an agreeable and perma- 
nent acquaintance with this interesting family? T. Hook. 
(3) After imperative or exclamatory clauses. 
Heaven defend but still I should stand so. 
Shot., I Hen. IV., IT. 3. 
(') Excepting or excluding the fact that ; save that ; were 
it not that ; unless. 
And, but indrraity 
(Which waits upon worn times) hath something seiz'd 
Mi- wish'd ability, he had himself 
The lands and waters 'twi.xt your throne and his 
Measur'd to look upon you. Shale., W. T., v. 1. 
Here we live in an old crumbling mansion that looks 
for all the world like an inn, but that we never see com- 
pany. Qoldtmith. 
Last year, my love, it was my hap 
Behind a grenadier to In-. 
And, lint he wore a hairy cap, 
No taller man methinks than me. 
Thackeray, Chronicle of the Drum. 
2. However; yet; still; nevertheless; notwith- 
standing: introducing a statement in restric- 
tion or modification of the preceding statement. 
When pride cometh, then cometh shame : but with the 
lowly is wisdom. Prov. xi. 2. 
Now ahideth faith, hope, charity, these three ; but the 
greatest of these is charity. 1 Cor. xiii. 13. 
The Moorish inhabitants looked jealously at this small 
but proud array of Spanish chivalry. 
Irving, Granada, p. 11. 
3. On the contrary; on the other hand: the 
regular adversative conjunction, introducing a 
clause in contrast with the preceding. 
Coke's opposition to the Court, we fear, was the effect 
not of good principles, but of a bad temper. 
Macautay, Lord Bacon. 
The statement with which the elause with but is thus con- 
trasted may be unexpressed, being implied in the context 
or supplied by the circumstances. 
Of much less value Is my company 
Than your good words. But who comes here? 
Shak., Rich. II., ii. 3. 
Have you got nothing for me? Yes, but I have. 
Sheridan. 
Sometimes, instead of the statement with which the clause 
with but is contrasted, an exclamation of surprise, admi- 
ration, or other strong feeling precedes, the clause with but 
then expressing the ground of the feeling. 
O, but this most delicious world, how sweet 
Her pleasures relish t Quarles, Emblems, 11. 13. 
Gocxl heavens, hut she is handsome ! Adam Smith. 
4. Than : after comparatives. (This construction, 
onee in good use, anil still common, is now regarded as 
inenrreel. 
It can be no otherwise but so. 
B. Jotumi, Cynthia's Revels, v. 2. 
() fairest flower, no sooner blown but blasted. 
Milton, Ode on D. F. I. 
1 no sooner saw my face in It '"' I was startled l'\ niv 
shortness in it. Addwon. 
735 
isolated uae derived from the preceding.] = Syn. //'- 
' ivr. Stilt. .\epcrthelcM, etc. See however. 
but 1 (but), n. [So., < baft, adv., prep., and rmij. , 
outside, without. Cf. the correlative ben 1 , n.] 
The outer room of a house consisting of only 
two rooms ; the kitchen : the other room being 
thi'/KK. To live but and ben with, tttttt) 
but-r, butt-'t (but), n. [< ME. but, butte, bottc, a 
flounder (glossed also turbo, turbot, &ndpectcn), 
= D. iii . a flounder, plaice, = MLO. but, LG. 
butt, butte (> G. butt, butte), a flounder, = 8w. 
tin 11,1, a turbot. Hence in comp. halibut, q. v.] 
A flounder or plaice. [North. Eng.] 
He tok . . . 
The luittr, the schulle, the thornehak. 
Havelok, 1. 769. 
Botte, that Is a flounder of the frusshe water. 
Babtcn Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 231. 
but :t , c. See butfl. 
but 4 , . and r. See butt'*. 
but 5 (but), . Short for abut. See butt*. 
but 8 (but), n. See butfi. 
butch ( In'idi ), v. t. [Assumed from butcher, like 
peddle from peddler.} To butcher; cut, as 
flesh. [Rare.] 
Take thy huge offal and white liver hence, 
Or in a twinkling of this true-blue steel 
I shall lie btitchiii'i thee from nape to rump. 
Sir H. Taylor, Ph. van Art, EL, HI. 1. 
butcher (buch'er), n. [< ME. bocher, < OF. 
bochier. bouchicr, boucher, F. boucher (= Pr. bo- 
chier ; ML. buccarius), orig. a killer of he-goats, 
or seller of their flesh, < OF. hoc, boue, F. bouc 
= Pr. boc (ML. buccut), a he-goat: see buck 1 . 
Cf. It. beccajo, becearo, a butcher, < becco, a 
goat.] 1. One who slaughters animals for 
market ; one whose occupation is the killing of 
animals for food. 2f. An executioner. 3. 
One who kills in a cruel or bloody manner ; one 
guilty of indiscriminate slaughter. 
Honour and renown are bestowed on conquerors, who, 
for the most part, are but the great butcher* of mankind. 
Lockf. 
4. Figuratively, an unskilful workman or per- 
former; a bungler; a botch. [CoUqq.] Butch- 
er's broom. Sec broom i. Butcher's Cleaver. See 
Charte*'* Wain, under wain. 
butcher (buch'er), v. t. [< butcher, n.] 1. To 
kill or slaughter for food or for market. 2. 
To murder, especially in an unusually bloody 
or barbarous manner. 
This point was no sooner gainel. l>,,t new 
l>egan. Ste\rt, Nobles and Commons, ill. 
6f. When. [This use arises out of the comparative con- 
struction. "not far, but . . . ," being equivalent to "not 
much further than . . ." See 4.) 
Nowl beheld in my dream, that they had not journeyed 
far, but the river and the way fora time parted. 
Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, ji. 172. 
[By further ellipsis and idiomatic deflection but has in 
modern English developed a great variety of special and 
A man beset by assessing 1s not bound to let himself be 
tortured and butchered without using his weapons. 
Macaulay, Hist. Eng., ix. 
3. Figuratively, to treat bunglingly; make a 
botch of ; spoil by bad work : as, to butcher a job ; 
the play was butchered by the actors. [Colloq.] 
butcher-bird (buch'er-berd), n. A shrike ; an 
oscine passerine bird of the family Laniidai, and 
especially of 
the genus 
Lanius (see 
these words) : 
so called from 
its curious 
habit of kill- 
ing more than 
it immediate- 
ly eats, and 
sticking what 
is left upon 
thorns, as 
a butcher 
hangs meat 
upon hooks. 
The common 
Butcher-bird (Lam'us IttdoviciaHKj}. liuteher-llinl of 
Europe is /.. 
excubitor; two common American species are the great 
northern shrike, L. boreolut, and a smaller southern spe- 
ciea, the white-riiniped shrike or loggerhead, L. ludomci- 
antu. See nine-killer and shrike. 
butcher-crow (buch'er-kro), . A bird of the 
family Corrida, genus Barita, inhabiting New 
Holland, as B. destructor. 
butcherdom (buch'er-dpm), n. The condition 
or trade of a butcher. [Rare.] 
butcherer (buch'er-er), n. [< butcher, v., + 
-eri.] One who butchers ; a butcher. [Rare.] 
butcherliness (buch'er-li-nes), n. The quality 
of being butcherly. Johnson. 
butcherly (buch'er-li), a. [< butcher + -/yl.] 
Pertaining to or characteristic of a butcher; 
done in the manner of a butcher. 
Lord Russell was lieheaded In Lincoln's Inn Fields, the 
executioner giving him three butcherly strokes. 
Evelyn, Diary, July 21, 1683. 
butcher-meat (buch'er-met), n. The flesh of 
animals slaughtered by the butcher for food, 
such as that of oxen, sheep, pigs, etc., as dis- 
Buthus 
tingnished from game or other animal or 
tablc f I ; liutcliiTs' incut. 
butcheroust (buch'er-us), a. [< butcher + -.. | 
Murderous ; cruel. 
That th''-<- th> I'xti-hrrftu* hands 
Mlollld ott T Violeni r t" thy tit -ll :I|M l.llHHl. 
Chapman ('.'), Alphontius, T. 2. 
butcher-rowt (bnch'er-ro), . A row of sham- 
bles ; a meat-market. 
How large a shambles anil butchrr-rme would such 
make ' Whitlock, Manners of Bog. People, p. 97. 
butcher's-broom (buch'erz-brom), . See 
Initi'li, r'x hrootn, under broom^. 
butcher's-prickwood (buch'erz-prik'wnd), . 
The berry-alder of Europe, Hhamiitui f^ranffula: 
so called from its use for skewers. 
butchery (buch'er-i), ii. ; pi. butcheries (-iz). 
[< ME. bocherir, a butchers shop, < OF. bu- 
cherie (Roquefort), boucherie (ML. 'buccaria, 
bucceria), F. boucherie, slaughter, a butcher's 
shop, < boucher, a butcher: see butcher.] 1. 
Slaughter; the act or business of slaughtering 
cattle. Hence 2. The killing of a human 
being t especially in a barbarous manner; also, 
the killing of a large number, as in battle; 
great slaughter. 
Whom gaols, and blood, and butchery delight Irrynrn. 
3t. The place where animals are killed for mar- 
ket; a shambles or slaughter-house; hence, a 
place where blood is shed. 
This house Is but a butchery ; 
Abhor it, fear it, do not enter It 
Shalt., An you Like It, II. 3. 
= Syn. Carnage, etc. See matttacre. 
hutching (buch'ing), n. [Verbal n. of butch, 
f.] Butchering; the butcher's trade. [Rare.] 
Sax thousand years are nearhand sped 
Sin' I was to the butchinff bred. 
Hum*, Death and Dr. Hornbook. 
Butea (bu'te-a), n. [NL., named after John, 
Earl of Bute '(1713-92).] A genus of legumi- 
nous plants, natives of the East Indies, contain- 
ing three or four species, small trees or climb- 
ing shrubs, yielding a kind of kino known as 
hut, a gum or Bengal kino. The principal species is 
/;. /random, the palas- or dhak-tree, common throughout 
India and conspicuous for its abundant bright orange-red 
flowers. Tin- seeds yield an oil ; the flowers are used in 
dyeing ; cordage is made from the filter of the bark ; and 
a lac is produced on the branches by the puncture of a 
coccus. 
but-end, n. See butt-end. 
Buteo (bu'te-o), n. [L., a buzzard : see buzzard.'] 
A genus of ignoble hawks, of the family Falconi- 
dce, sometimes forming a subfamily Buteoninte ; 
the buzzards or buzzard- 
hawks (which see). The genus 
Is an extensive one, in its usual ac- 
ceptation containing about 40 spe- 
cies, of nearly all parts of the world. 
They are large, heavy hawks, with 
no tooth on the bill, wings and tail 
of moderate size, and rather short 
feet with partly naked, partly fea- 
thered tarsi. The common buz- 
zard of Europe, II. rulgarit, and 
the red-tailed buzzard of America, Ji. borealut, are typical 
examples. 
Buteoninse (bu'te-o-nl'ne), n. pi. [NL., < B- 
teo(n-) + -in<r.] A group of buzzard-hawks ; 
one of the conventional subfamilies of Falco- 
nidce, represented by the genus Buteo and its 
subdivisions, and by the genus tri-/iil>n>,i>. 
There are no technical characters by which 
it can be de- 
termined with 
precision. 
buteonine 
(bu'te-o-nin), 
a. [<'Buteo(n-) 
+ -inel.] Buz- 
zard-like ; re- 
sembling a 
buzzard ; be- 
longing to the 
group of hawks 
of which the 
genus Buteo is 
typical. 
hut-gap (buf- 
gap), n. [E. 
dial., appar. < 
but* or butt?, a 
bound, limit, 
+ gap.'} A 
fence of turf. 
Buthus (bu'- 
thus),. [NL.] 
A genus of 
scorpions, of 
the family . / - 
Hcatt or Red-tailed Buz- 
zard (Buteo bvrealit). 
