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Webster 1913 Edition


Butt

Butt

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Butted
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Butting
.]
[OE.
butten
, OF.
boter
to push, F.
bouter
. See
Butt
an end, and cf.
Boutade
.]
1.
To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
[Written also
but
.]
And Barnsdale there doth
butt
on Don’s well-watered ground.
Drayton.
2.
To thrust the head forward; to strike by thrusting the head forward, as an ox or a ram. [See
Butt
,
Noun.
]
A snow-white steer before thine altar led,
Butts
with his threatening brows.
Dryden.

Butt

,
Verb.
T.
To strike by thrusting the head against; to strike with the head.
Two harmless lambs are
butting
one the other.
Sir H. Wotton.

Butt

,
Noun.
[F.
botte
,
boute
, LL.
butta
. Cf.
Bottle
a hollow vessel.]
A large cask or vessel for wine or beer. It contains two hogsheads.
☞ A wine butt contains 126 wine gallons (= 105 imperial gallons, nearly); a beer butt 108 ale gallons (= about 110 imperial gallons).

Butt

,
Noun.
(Zool.)
The common English flounder.

Webster 1828 Edition


Butt

BUTT

,
Noun.
[See But.] Literally, end, furthest point. Hence, a mark to be shot at; the point where a mark is set or fixed to be shot at.
1.
The point to which a purpose or effort is directed.
2.
The object of aim; the thing against which an attack is directed. Hence,
3.
The person at whom ridicule,jests or contempt are directed; as the butt of ridicule.
4.
A push or thrust given by the head of an animal, as the butt of a ram; also, a thrust in fencing.
5.
A cask whose contents are 126 gallons of wine, or two hogsheads; called also a pipe. A butt of beer is 108 gallons, and from 1500 to 2200 weight of currants is a butt.
6.
The end of a plank in a ship's side or bottom.
7.
A particular kind of hinge for doors, &c.

BUTT

,
Verb.
I.
[L. peto.] To thrust the head forward; to strike by thrusting the head against, as an ox or a ram.