BUT 
by the party. Thefe afts are feldom enforced, and do not 
feem very confident with general policy. 
BUT'TON, /. [echinus marinus. ] The fea urchin, which 
is a kind of crab-tilh that has prickles inftead of feet. See 
Ech'nus. 
To BUT'TON, v. a. To drefs ; to clothe : 
One whole hard heart is button'd up with Heel. Skahefpcare. 
To fatten with buttons ; as, He buttons his coat. 
BUT'TON-, J'. in the manege. Button of the reins of a 
bridle, is a ring of leather, with the reins palTed through 
it, which runs till along the length of the reins. To put 
a horle under the button, is when a horfe is flopped with¬ 
out a rider upon his back, the reins being laid on his neck, 
and the button lowered fo far down that the reins bring 
in the horfe’s head, and fix it to the true pofture or car¬ 
riage. It is not only the horfes which are managed in the 
hand that muft be put under the button ; for the fame 
method muff be taken with fuch horfes as are bred be¬ 
tween two pillars, before they are backed. 
BUT'TON’s BAY, a bay on the north part of Hud- 
fon’s Bay, where Sir Thomas Button attempted to difco- 
ver a north-wefl palfage, butlofl hisfliip, and came home 
in a Hoop made in the country. 
BUTTON’S ISLANDS, five fmall iflands, at the foutli 
end of Hudlbn’s Straits, near the north coaft of Labrador : 
from ten to thirty miles north of Cape Chidley. Lat. 60. 
18. to 60. 40. N. Ion. 65. 10. W. Greenwich. 
BUT'TON-HOLE, f. The loop in which the button 
of the clothes is caught.—Let me take you a button-hole 
lower. Skakefpeare. 
BUT'TON-NESS, a cape of Scotland, on the fouth-eaft 
extremity of the county of Angus, in the German Sea, at 
the north coaft of the entrance into the Frith of Tay. It 
is nine miles eaft of Dundee. Lat. 36. 26. N. Ion. 1. 33. 
W. Greenwich. 
BUT'TON-STONE, f. in natural hiflory, a kind of 
figured ftone, fo denominated from its refembling the but¬ 
ton of a garment. Dr. Hook gives the figure of three forts 
of biuton-ftones, which feems to have been nothing elfe 
but the filling up of three feveral forts of (hells. They 
are all of them very hard flints; and have this in common, 
that they confift of two bodies, which feem to have been 
the filling up of two holes or vents in the (hell. Dr. Plot 
delcribes a fpecies finely ftriated from the top, after the 
manner of fome hair buttons. This name is alfo given to 
a peculiar fpecies of (late found in the marquifate of Ba- 
reith, in a mountain called Fichtelberg ; which is ex-> 
tremely different front the common forts of Hate, in that 
it runs with' great eafe into glafs in five or fix hours time; 
without the addition of any fait or other foreign fubftance, 
to promote its vitrification, as other ftones require. It 
contains in itfelf all the principles of glafs, and really has 
mixed in its fubftance the things necclfary to be added to 
promote the fufion of other flony bodies. The Swedes 
and Germans make buttons of the glafs produced from it, 
which is very black and fhining, and hence its name. 
BUT'TON-TREE,/. in botany. See Conocarpos. 
BUT'TON-WEED,/i in botany. See Spermacoce. 
BUT'TON-WOOD. See Cephalanthus. 
BUT'TRESS,yi [ aboutir , Fr.] A prop ; a wall built 
to fupport another wall, and (landing out.—Fruit-trees, 
let upon a wall againft the fun, between elbows or buttrcjjes 
of done, ripen more than upon a plain hall. Bacon. —A 
prop ; a fupport.—It will concern us to examine the force 
of this plea, which our adverfaries are (fill fetting up a- 
galnft us, as the ground pillar and buttrefs of the good old 1 
caufe of nonconformity. South. * 
To BUT'TRESS, v.a. To prop; to fupport. 
BUTT'STADT, or Buttstett, a town of Ger¬ 
many, in the circle of Upper Saxony, and principality of 
Weimar, fituated on the Lofs. It carries on a great trade 
in cattle with Poland and Hungary. It is nine miles north 
of Weimar, and eighi weft of Naumburg. 
BU'TUS, anciently a town of Lower Egypt, on the 
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weft fide of the branch of tire Nile, called Thcrmuthiacus ; 
towards the mouth called OJlium Scbennyticum.: in this town 
flood ;m oracle of Latc-na. Herodotus. Ptolemy places 
Butus in the Nemos Phthenotes : it is alfo called Buto. 
Stcphanus. It had temples of Apollo and Diana; but tlae 
largeft was that of Latona, where the oracle flood. 
BUTYRA'CEOUS, adj. \_butyrvm, Lat. butter.] Ha¬ 
ving the qualities of butter. —Chyle has the fame princi- 
pies as milk; a vicidity from the cafeous parts, and an 
oilinefs from the butyraccous paints. Floyer. 
BU'TYROUS, adj. [ butyrum , Lat.] Having* the pro¬ 
perties of butter.—Its oily ted part is from the buiyrous 
parts of the chyle. Floyer. 
BUTZ'BACH, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
the Upper Rhine, and principality of Upper Helle, fitua¬ 
ted in a plain, marflty but fertile : feven miles fouth-fouth- 
weft of Gieflen, and eight fouth-fouth-eaft of Wetzlar. 
BUT'ZONV, town of Germany, in the circle of Lower 
Saxony, and principality of Schwerin; twenty-four miles 
north-eaft of Schwerin. 
BUX'AR, a town of Hindooftan, fituated at the junc¬ 
tion of the Caratnnafla river with the Ganges, celebrated 
by the complete victory gained October 22, 1764, by ma¬ 
jor Heffor Monro, with nine thoufand men, chilfiy fe- 
poys, over an army of fifty thoufand Indians, commanded 
by Sujah ul Dowlah, and his allies. 
BUX B AU'M TA, yi A kind of tnofs, of which there 
are only tw o fpecies. 1. Buxbaumia aphylla, figured in 
FI. Dan. t. 44. Dill. Mttfc. t. 68. f. 5. and 2. Buxbaumia 
foliofa, figured by Ddlenius, t. 32. f. 13. Both are to be 
found in the diflertation of the younger Linnetis on modes, 
p. 23 and 33, and the latter is figured there, t. 1. f. 4. 
BUX'E FIOR A, a bay on the weft coaft of Welt Green¬ 
land. Lat. 64. 15. N. Ion. 49.40. W. Greenwich. 
BUXEN'TUM, or Pyx us, a town of Lucania, firft 
built by the people of Mellana, but afterwards deferred. 
Strabo. A Roman colony was fent thither; and, when 
found flit 1 thin of inhabitants, a new colony was fent by a 
decree of the Senate. Its name is from buxus, the box- 
tree, growing plentifully’there. Strabo fays, the name 
Py'xus includes a promontory, port, and river, under one. 
Now Policajlro, in the Hither Principato of Naples. 
BUX'OM, adj. [buejum, Sax. from bugan, to bend. It 
originally fignified obedient ; as John de Trevifa, a clergy¬ 
man, tells his patron, that he is obedient and buxom to all 
his commands. In an old form of marriage, ufed before the 
reformation, the bride promifed to be obedient and buxom 
in bed and. at board 7 .front which exprelfion, not well un¬ 
derflood, its prefent meaning feems to be derived.] Obe¬ 
dient; obfeqtiious. — He did tread down and difgrace all 
tIre Englifh, and let up and countenance (be Irifh,; think¬ 
ing thereby to make them more tractable and buxom to his 
government. Spenjer. 
lie, with broad Fails,- 
Winnow’d the buxom air. 
Gay ; lively; brifk : 
Zephyr, with Aurora playing, 
As he met her once a may.ing, 
Fill’d her with thee, a daughter fair, ; 
So buxom, blithe, and debonnair. 
Wanton ; jolly : 
Almighty Jove defeends, and pours: 
Into his buxom bride his fruitful (how’rs. 
BUX'OMLY, adv. Wantonly; a moron fly. 
BUX'OMNESS, f. Wantounefs ; amoroufnefs. 
BUXTEHU'DE, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Lower Saxony, and duchy of Bremen, fituated ion the 
Efte, which fills the ditches. The fortifications have been 
razed ; eighteen miles fouth-eaft of Stade, and (ixteen 
vveft-fouth-weft of Hamburg. 
BUX'TON (Jedediah), born at Elmeton,- a fmall vil¬ 
lage near Chefterfield, in Derbyshire, about the year 1704. 
His grandfather, John Buxton, was vicar of Elmeton; and 
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