■ + 8 BUT 
BUT, conjunc. [ bute , butan, Sax.] Except: 
Who can it be, ye gods! but perjur’d Lycon ? 
Who can infpire ftich (forms of rage, but Lycon? 
Where has my (word left one lo black, but Lycon ? Smith. 
Except that; unlefs ; had it not been that: in this fenfe 
we now write but that: 
And but infirmity, 
Which waits upon worn times, hath fomething feiz'd 
His vvifii’d ability, he had himfelf 
The lands and waters meafur’d. Shahefpcare. 
Yet; neverthelefs. It fometimes only enforces yet.' —Then 
let him fpeak, and any that (hall (land without (hall hear 
his voice plainly; but yet made extreme (harp and exile, 
like the voice of puppets. Bacon.— The particle which in¬ 
troduces the minor of a fyllogifm ; now.— God will one 
time or another make a difference between the good and 
the evil. But there is little or no difference made in this 
world : therefore there muff be another world, wherein 
this difference (hall be made. Watts. —Only ; nothing more 
than.—If we do but put virtue and vice in equal circuni- 
(lances, the advantages of eafe and pleafure will b.e found 
to be on the fide of religion. Tillotfon. 
Prepar’d I (land : he was but born to try 
The lot of man, to fuffer and to die. Pope. 
Than.—The full moon was no fooner up, and (tuning in 
all its brightnefs, but he opened the gate of Puradile, Guar¬ 
dian.— But that; without this conlequence that: 
Fro (Is that conJlrain the ground 
Do feldom their ufurping power withdraw, 
But raging floods purine their hafty hand. Dryden. 
Otherwife than that. — It cannot be but nature hath fome 
direftor, of infinite power, to guide her in all her ways. 
Hooker. —Not more titan ; even : 
Beroe but now I left; whom, pin’d with pain, 
Her age and anguifh from tirete rites detain. Dryden. 
By any other means than. — Out of that will I caufe thofe 
of Cyprus to mutiny : whole qualification (hall come into 
no true tafle again, but by tranfplahting of Caffio. Shakefp. 
—If it were not for this; that; if it were not that. Obfolete: 
I here do give thee that with all my heart, 
Which, but thou had already, with all my heart 
I would keep from thee. Shakefpcare. 
However; howbeit: a word of indeterminate connection: 
i do not doubt but I have been to blame; 
But, to purfue the end for which I came. 
Unite your fubjects firft, then let us go 
.And pour their common rage upon the foe. Dryden. 
It is ufed after no doubt, no quejlion, and fuch words, and 
■fignifies the fame with that. It fometimes is joined with 
that. —They made no account, but that the navy Ihould be 
abfolutely itrader of the feas. Bacon. —There is no quedion 
but the king of Spain will reform mod of the abufes. Ad- 
difon. —That. This feeins no proper fenfe in this place.— 
It is not therefore impofiible but I may alter the com¬ 
plexion of my play, to reftore myfelf into the good graces 
-of my fair critics. Dryden. —Otherwife than. Obfolete: 
I (hould (in 
To think but nobly of my grandmother. Shakefpeare. 
A particle by which the meaning of the foregoing fentcnce 
is bounded or redrained ; only : 
Thus fights Ulyfles, thus his fame extends; 
A formidable man, but to ins friends. Dryden. 
A particle of objection ; yet it may be objected : it has 
fometimes with it: 
But yet, madam - 
1 do not like but yet ; it does allay 
The good precedence; fie upon but yet! 
But yet is as a jaylour, to bring fori It 
Some inonitrous malefailojr. Shakefpeare. 
BUT 
But for ; without; had not this been : 
Radi man, forbear! but for fome unbelief, 
My joy had been as fatal as my grief. Waller. 
BU I’ ,f. [bout, Fr.] A boundary.— But, if I afk you 
what I mean by that word, you will anfw.er, 1 mean this 
or that thing, you cannot tell which; but if 1 join it with 
the words in confiruCtion and fenfe, as, but I will not, a 
but of wine, but and boundary, the ram will but, flioot at 
but, the meaning of it will be as ready to you as any othee 
word. Holder. 
BUT,/, in fea-langnage, the end of any plank which 
joins to another on the outlide of a (hip, under water. 
BUT-END,/ The blunt end of anything; the end 
upon which it reds.—The referve of foot galled their foot 
with feveral vollies, and then fell on them with the but-ends 
of their nmfquets. Clarendon. 
BUT'CHER,/ [ boucher , Fr.] One that kills animals 
to fell their fledi ; 
Hence he learnt the butcher's guile, 
How to cut your throat, and (mile; 
I.ike a butcher doom’d for life 
In his month to wear his knife. Swift. 
One that is delighted with blood.—Honour and renown 
are bellowed on conquerors, who, for the moll part, are 
but the great butchers of mankind. Locke. —Among the an¬ 
cient Romans, there were three kind of edablidied but¬ 
chers, whofc office it was to furnifh the city with the ne- 
cellarv cattle, and to take care of preparing and vending 
their flelh. The fuarii provided hogs ; the pccuarii or bo- 
arii, other cattle, efpeciaily oxen ; and under thefe were 
a lubordinate clafs, whole office was to kill, called lanii„ 
and camifices. To exercile the office of butcher among 
the Jews with dexterity, was of more reputation than to 
underdand the liberal arts and faiences. They have a book 
concerning fhamble-conditution ; and, in cafe of any diffi¬ 
culty, they apply to fome learned rabbi for advice : nor 
was any allowed to praCtife this art, without a licence in 
form; which gave the man, upon evidence of his abilities, 
a power to kill meat, and others to eat what he killed ; 
provided he carefully read every week for one year, and 
every month the next year, and once a quarter during his 
life, the conditutiou above-mentioned. Dr. Townfon, in 
lus Travels, publifhed in 1796, humanely recommends to 
the practice of Englidi butchers, the Hungarian method of 
killing their cattle, by wounding the fpinal marrow, which 
gives an eafy and indantaneous death. In this manner the 
oxen are killed by the butchers of Gibraltar, indead of 
knocking them on the head; and thefe are faid to have 
learned it from their African neighbours in Fez and Mo= 
rocco. Every means of diminifliing the fufferiugs of the 
brute creation (hould be certainly adopted, not only on the 
fcore of humanity, but for the fake of our own fociety. 
Men, accudomed to be cruel towards animals, will foon re« 
quire but a fmall inducement to be fo to their own fpecies. 
In Plngland, butchers were anciently compelled by flat 
tute to fell their meat at reafonable prices, or forfeit dou¬ 
ble the value, to be levied by warrant of two juftices of 
peace, See. And were not to buy any fat cattle to fell 
again, on pain of forfeiting the value ; but this not to ex¬ 
tend to felling calves, lambs, or fheep, dead, from one 
butcher to another. 23 Edw. III. c. 6. By flat. 2and3 
Edw.VI. c. 15. (revived, continued, and confirmed, by 
flat. 22 and 23 Car. 11 . c. 19, which is now expired,) but¬ 
chers and others confpiring to (ell their victuals at certain 
rates, are liable to 10!. penalty, or twenty days imprifon- 
ment, for the firfl offence ; 20k or pillory for the fecond ; 
and 40I. or pillory, and lofs of an ear, for the third. 
The offence to be tried by the feffions or leet. See Con¬ 
spiracy, By flat. 4 Hen. VIE c. 3, no butcher rtiall (lay 
any bead within any walled town, except Carlifle and Ber¬ 
wick. By the ordinance for bakers, incert. temp, butchers 
are not to fell fwine’s flelh meazled, or flelh dead of the 
murrain. By flat. 3 Car. I. c. 1. butchers are not to (ell 
or kill meat on Sunday. By (tats. 1 Jac. I. c. 22, and 9 
Anne. 
