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Webster 1913 Edition
Butter
But′ter
(bŭt′tẽr)
, Noun.
[OE.
botere
, butter
, AS. butere
, fr. L. butyrum
, Gr. βούτυρον
; either fr. βούσ
ox, cow + τυρόσ
cheese; or, perhaps, of Scythian origin. Cf. Cow
.] 1.
An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning.
2.
Any substance resembling butter in degree of consistence, or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the chlorides, as butter of antimony, sesquichloride of antimony; also, certain concrete fat oils remaining nearly solid at ordinary temperatures, as butter of cacao, vegetable butter, shea butter.
Butter boat
, a small vessel for holding melted butter at table.
– Butter flower
, the buttercup, a yellow flower.
– Butter print
, a piece of carved wood used to mark pats of butter; – called also
butter stamp
. Locke.
– Butter tooth
, either of the two middle incisors of the upper jaw.
– Butter tree
(Bot.)
, a tree of the genus
– Bassia
, the seeds of which yield a substance closely resembling butter. The butter tree of India is the Bassia butyracea
; that of Africa is the Shea tree (Bassia Parkii
). See Shea tree
. Butter trier
, a tool used in sampling butter.
– Butter wife
, a woman who makes or sells butter; – called also
butter woman
. [Obs. or Archaic]
But′ter
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Buttered
([GREEK]); p. pr. & vb. n.
Buttering
.] 1.
To cover or spread with butter.
I know what’s what. I know on which side
My bread is
My bread is
buttered
. Ford.
2.
To increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game.
[Cant]
Johnson.
Butt′er
,Noun.
One who, or that which, butts.
Webster 1828 Edition
Butter
BUT'TER
,Noun.
Butter, in the old chimistry, was applied to various preparations; as,
Butter of antimony, now called the sublimated muriate of antimony, and made by distilling a mixture of corrosive sublimate and the regulus.
Butter of arsenic, sublimated muriate of arsenic, made by a like process.
Butter of bismuth, sublimated muriate of bismuth.
Butter of tin, sublimated muriate of tin.
Butter of zink, sublimated muriate of zink.
Butter of cacao, is an oily concrete white matter obtained from the cacao nut, made by bruising the nut and boiling it in water.
Butter of wax, the oleaginous part of wax, obtained by distillation, and of a butyraceous consistence.
BUT'TER
,Verb.
T.
1.
To increase the stakes at every throw or every game; a cant term among gamesters.