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butterfly-orchis 
butterfly-orchis (but'er-fli-dr'kis), . A Brit- butter-tooth (but' er-toth), . [< butter* + 
ish orchid, Habeitaria bifoliti, growing in woods tooth ; perhaps with some vague allusion to 
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button 
and open heaths. The great butterfly-orchis is milk-tooth.'} 
H. chlornntha. 
butterfly-plant (buf er-fli-plant), w. 1 . A West 
Indian orchideous plant, OnofcZtom PaptUo. See ^ ^ ^ 
Oncidium.Z. Aspeciesof theEastlndianPAn- i, ut t er _t ree (buf fer-tre), n. A species of Bus- 
,,,; found in Africa, which yields a substance 
A selachian 
A broad front tooth. 
I'd had an eye 
Popt out ere this time, or my two butter-teeth 
Thrust down my throat. 
butterfly-ray (bufer-fll-ra), w. 
of the family Trygoiiidai, Pteroplatea maclura. 
It is a kind of sting-ray with very broad pec- 
torals. 
butterfly-shaped (but'er-fll-shapt), . In bot., 
shaped like a butterfly ; papilionaceous. 
butterfly-shell (buf er-fli-shel), n. A shell of 
the genus Valuta. 
butterfly-valve (but'er-fll-valv), M. A kind of 
double clack-valve used in pumps. It consists es- 
sentially of two semicircular clappers, 
clacks, or wings hinged to a cross-rib 
cast in the pump-bucket, and is named 
from its resemblance to the wings of 
a butterfly when open, as represented 
in section in the annexed cut. It is em- 
ployed in the lift-buckets of large wa- 
ter-pumps, and for the air-pump buck- 
ets of condensing steam-engines. Also 
called butterfly-cock. See clack-valve. 
butterfly-weed (buf er - fli- 
wed), n. 1. A name of the 
North American plant Ascle- 
pias tuberosa; the pleurisy-root 
like butter; the shea-tree. See Shea. The name 
buttery-hatch (buf er-i-hach), n. A hatch or 
half -door giving entrance to a buttery. 
I know you were one could keep 
The buttery-hatch still locked, and save the drippings. 
b. Jonsoii, Alchemist, i. 1. 
butt-hinge (but'hinj), . Same as butt 2 , 4. 
Middietan, Mamnger, and Rowley, Old Law, iii. 2. butthom (bufthorn), n. [Uncertain; appar. 
< but" (or else butt 2 ) + thorn, prob. in ref. to 
the spiny surface of the starfish.] A kind of 
starfish, Aslropecten aurantiacus. See starfish. 
is also Riven to various other trees from the seeds of which butt-howel (bufhou"el), 11. A kind of howel 
solid oils are obtained. See butter*. , -* 1]Cua /i Vv v />nnnpi*R 
^'ti^^.^^ w ^r'Sr^t^ of ^^ to 
6f.] An abutting or abuttal. 
Without buttings or boundings on any side. 
Bp. Eeveridr/e, Works, I. xx. 
'ing-joint), H. A joint formed 
pieces of timber or metal united end- 
wise so that they come exactly against each 
other with a true joint ; an abutting joint. In 
ironwork the parts are welded, and the term is used in 
ntradistinction to lap-joint. Also called butt-joint. 
Butterfly-valve. 
hand-tool used in sampling butter. 
butter-tub (buffer-tub),)). A tub used for con- 
taining butter in quantity, 
butterweed (buffer-wed), n. A common name 
of the horseweed, Erigeron Canadense, and of 
the Senteio lobatus. 
butter-weightt (buf fer-wat), . More than full 
weight ; a larger or more liberal allowance than 
is usual or is stipulated for: in allusion to a 
custom, now obsolete, of allowing and exact- butting-machine (but'ing-ma-shen"), n. A 
ing 17 or 18 ounces, or even more, to the pound machine for dressing and finishing the ends of 
of butter. In Scotland either tron weight or a 
still heavier pound was used for butter. 
They teach you how to split a hair, 
Give and Jove an equal share ; 
Yet why should we he lac'd so strait ? 
I'll give my M ' 
butterwife (buf er-wlf), . A butterwoman. 
Johnson. 
IS all expectorant, ii 11111*1 i:in.imi LIU, mm ** >nc*ij\n^vi^, .. ^ t . _ . _ _ 
is employed in incipient pulmonary affections, rheuma butterwoman (but'er-wuna'an), n. ; pi. butter- 
tism, and dysentery. women (-wim"en). A wo- 
2. The butterfly-pea, CUtoria Mariana. 
erable reputation as an article of the materia medica. It 
is an expectorant, a mild cathartic, and a diaphoretic, and 
butterin, butterine (buffer-in), n. [< butted 
+ -in 2 , -ie 2 .] An artificial butter made by 
churning oleomargarin, a product of a,nimal 
fat, with milk and water, or by churning milk 
with some sweet butter and the yolks of eggs, 
the whole of the contents of the chum by the 
latter method being converted into butterin. 
butterist, n. See buttress, 3. 
butter-knife (buf fer-nif), . A blunt and 
generally ornamented knife used for cutting 
butter at table. 
butterman (buffer-man), .; pi. liuttermcn 
(-men). A man who sells butter. 
buttermilk (buffer-milk), . [= D. botermelk 
= MHG. butermilch, G. buttermilen.'] The liquid 
that remains after the butter is separated from 
milk. It has a pleasant acidulous taste. Also 
called churn-milk. 
I ... received a small jug of thick buttermilk, not re- 
markably clean, but very refreshing. 
B. Taylor, Lands of the Saracen, p. 54. 
man who sells butter. 
I see grave learned men rail 
and scold like butter-women. 
Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 613. 
butter- worker (but ' er- 
wer*ker),i. An apparatus 
or tool for freeing butter 
from buttermilk. 
butterwort (but'fer-wert), 
H. [< butter^ + worft.'] A 
name common to the spe- 
cies of Pinguicula. The bu- 
terworts grow on wet ground, 
are apparently stemless, and 
have showy spurred flowers. 
The name is due to the greasy- 
looking viscid surface of the 
leaves, which are covered with 
soft, pellucid glandular hairs, 
secreting a glutinous liquor that 
catches small insects. The edges 
of the leaf roll over on the insect 
and retain it, and the insects thus 
y i 
attached to a revolving disk. 
butting-ring (but'ing-ring), n. A collar on the 
axle of a wheel, inside the wheel, which it pre- 
vents from moving further inward along the axle . 
Poetry, butting-saw (bufing-sa), n. A cross-cut saw 
used to prepare logs for the saw-mill by cut- 
ting off the rough ends. 
)Utt-joint (but' joint), . Same as butting- 
joint. 
buttle 1 (but'l), n. A Scotch form of bottle^. 
( From I-e Maout and D- 
caisne's " Traite i/cml-i.d de 
Botanique.") 
Ill lli, 
aught are supposed to serve as food for the plant, 
north of Sweden the leaves are employed to curdle milk. 
butter-mold (buf 6r-m61d),M. Arnold inwhich buttery 1 (bufer-i), a. [< butter^ + -yi.] 1. 
pats of butter are shaped and stamped. 
buttermunk (but'fer-mungk), . [A variant of 
butterbump.] A local New England name of 
the night-heron, Nyctiardea grisea nati'ia. 
butternut (buffer-nut), n. 1. The fruit of 
Having the qualities (especially the consis- 
tence) or appearance of butter. 
Sinking her voice into a deeper key, she drove the fol- 
owing lines, slowly and surely, through and through his 
poor, unresisting, buttery heart. 
C. Keade, Art. 
Juylans cinerea, an American tree, so called 2. Apt to let fall anything one ought to hold, 
from the oil it contains; also, the tree itself, as a ball in the game of cricket ; butter-fingered. 
The tree bears a resemblance in its general appearance to buttery'^ (but' er-i), M. ; pi. butteries (-iz.) [< 
the black walnut (J. nujra), but the fruit is long pointed, ME i oterv b tr v , a buttery, a corruption (due 
and viscous, the nut furrowed and sharply jagged, and the *.',? ? . -,,-,. j,,,/,,,,. 
wood soft but close-grained and light-colored, turning yel- to association With botere, buttet , ana to tne 
low after exposure. The wood takes a fine polish, and is fact that, besides liquors, butter and other pro- 
largely used in interior finish and in cabinet-work. The visions were kept in the same place) of bote- 
inuer bark furnishes a brown dye, and is used as a mild - - ^ ^ ^ \ ./ *-\tn T.-....-.-I 
cathartic. Also called white walnut. 
2. The nut of Caryocar nuciferum, a lofty tim 
ber-tree of Guiana, natural order Ternstrtema- 
cece. The nuts have a pleasant taste, and are exported to 
some extent. They are also known as noiiari- or suu'ar- 
row-nuts. 
3. A name applied during the civil war in the 
United States to Confederate soldiers, in allu- 
sion to the coarse brown homespun cloth, dyed 
with butternut, often worn by them. 
butter-pat (but'fer-pat), . A small piece of 
butter formed into a generally ornamental 
11 lerye (mod. E. restored butlerij), < OF. bouteil- button (but'n), n. [Early moc 
lerie. a place to keep bottles or liquors (ML. < ME. baton, botoun (also co 
buticularia, the office of a wine-taster), < bou- bothom, in sense of bud ), < 
teille, boutille, a bottle : see butler and bottle 2 .'] 
1. An apartment in a house in which wines, 
liquors, and provisions are kept; a pantry. 
Take them to the buttery, 
And give them friendly welcome. 
Shak., T. of the 8., Ind., i. 
Hake him drink, wench ; 
And if there be any cold meat in the buttery, 
Give him some broken bread and that, and rid him. 
Sean, and Fl., Captain, i. 3. 
2. In colleges, formerly, a room where liquors, 
fruits, and refreshments were kept for sale to 
the students. 
In English universities the buttery was in former days 
the scene of the infliction of corporal punishment. 
B. H. Hall, College Words. 
shape for the table. 
butter-pot (but'fer-pot), . In the seventeenth 
century, a cylindrical vessel of coarse pottery 
glazed with pulverized lead ore dusted upon the 
ware before it was fired. Marryat. 
butter-print (buffer -print), . A mold for 
stamping butter into blocks, prints, or pats, buttery-bar (but'er-i-bar), n. A ledge on the 
Also called butter-stamp tP of a buttery-hatch on which to rest tan- 
kind of kards. 
Bring your hand to the buttery-bar and let it drink. 
Shak., T. N., i. 3. 
buttery-book (but'er-i-buk), u. An account- 
book kept at the buttery of a college. 
This person was an assistant to the butler to put on 
[that is, enter] bottles in the buttery book. 
Wood, Fasti Oxon., ii. 
butter-scotch (but'fer-skoch), n. 
oleaginous taffy. 
butter-shag (but'er-shag), . A slice of bread 
and butter. [Local, Eng. (Cumberland).] 
butter-Stamp (buffer-stamp), . Same an Itut- 
ter-prtnt, 
butter-tongs (buf 6r-t6ngz), /. /il. A kind of 
tongs with flat blades for slicing and lifting 
butter. 
If no rude mice with envious rage 
The buttery-books devour. The Student, I. 34s. 
buttle 2 (but'l), )'. i. ; pret. and pp. buttled, ppr. 
buttling. [< butler, as butch < butcher, burgle < 
burglar, peddle < peddler, etc.] To act as butler. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
butt-leather OmfleWte), . The thickest 
leather, used chiefly for the soles of boots and 
shoes. 
buttock (but'ok), . [< ME. buttok, bottol-; 
appar. < butt 2 , ., 1 (f), + dim. -ocl:'] 1. Either 
of the two protuberances which form the rump 
in men and animals ; in the plural, the rump ; 
the gluteal region of the body, more protu- 
berant in man than in any other animal; the 
bottom. 
Like a barber's chair, that fits all buttocks. 
Shak., All's Well, ii. 2. 
2. The upper aftermost portion of the con- 
tinuation of the contour of a ship's bottom. 
Thearle, Naval Arch. 3. In coal-mining, the 
portion of a face of coal ready to be next taken 
down. [Eng.] 4. A piece of armor for the 
rump of a horse. See croupiere Buttock mail, 
a ludicrous term for the fine formerly paid, in a case of 
fornication, to an ecclesiastical court. Scott. [Scotch.] 
buttocker (but'ok-fer), n. [< buttock, 3, + -erl.] 
In mining, one who works at the buttock, or 
breaks out the coal ready for the fillers. [Eng. ] 
buttock-line (but' pk-lln), . In ship-building, 
the projection upon the sheer plan of the in- 
tersection of a plane parallel to it with the 
after-body of the vessel. 
The lines obtained by the intersections of the planes 
parallel to the sheer plane are known as bow lines when 
in the fore body, and buttock linen when in the after body. 
Thearle, Naval Architecture, VS. 
[Early mod. E. also baton, 
corruptly bothun, 
< OF. baton (F. 
bouton '= Pr. Sp. baton = Pg. botao = It. bot- 
tone), a button, a bud; perhaps < boter, push 
out, butt: see feuW 1 .] 1. Any knob or ball 
fastened to another body ; specifically, such an 
object used to secure together different parts 
of a garment, to one portion of which it is 
fastened in such a way that it can be passed 
through a slit (called a buttonhole) in another 
portion, or through a loop. Buttons are sometimes 
sewed to garments for ornament. They are made of met- 
al, horn, wood, mother-of-pearl, etc., and were formerly 
common in very rich materials, especially during the eigh- 
teenth century, when the coats of gentlemen at the French 
court had buttons of gold and precious stones, pearl, enam- 
el, and the like. Later buttons of diamonds or of paste 
imitating diamonds were worn, matching the buckles of 
the same period. 
2. pi. (used as a singular). A page: so called 
from the buttons, commonly gilt, which adorn 
his jacket. 
Our present girl is a very slow coai-h ; but we hope some 
day to sport a buttons. 
3. A knob of gold, crystal, coral, ruby, or 
other precious stone, worn by Chinese officials, 
both civil and military, on the tops of their 
hats as a badge of rank ; hence, the rank itself: 
as, a blue button. There are nine ranks, the first or 
highest being distinguished by a transparent red (or ruby) 
