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<hw>Butt</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Butted</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Butting</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>butten</ets>, OF. <ets>boter</ets> to push, F. <ets>bouter</ets>. See <er>Butt</er> an end, and cf. <er>Boutade</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>but</asp>.]</altsp>

<blockquote>And Barnsdale there doth <b>butt</b> on Don's well-watered ground. <i>Drayton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To thrust the head forward; to strike by thrusting the head forward, as an ox or a ram. [See <er>Butt</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</def>

<blockquote>A snow-white steer before thine altar led, <b>Butts</b> with his threatening brows. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Butt</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To strike by thrusting the head against; to strike with the head.</def>

<blockquote>Two harmless lambs are <b>butting</b> one the other. <i>Sir H. Wotton.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Butt</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>botte</ets>, <ets>boute</ets>, LL. <ets>butta</ets>. Cf. <er>Bottle</er> a hollow vessel.]</ety> <def>A large cask or vessel for wine or beer. It contains two hogsheads.</def>

<note>&hand; A wine <i>butt</i> contains 126 wine gallons (= 105 imperial gallons, nearly); a beer <i>butt</i> 108 ale gallons (= about 110 imperial gallons).</note>

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<hw>Butt</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>The common English flounder.</def>

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<hw>Butte</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. See <er>Butt</er> a bound.]</ety> <def>A detached low mountain, or high rising abruptly from the general level of the surrounding plain; -- applied to peculiar elevations in the Rocky Mountain region.</def>

<blockquote>The creek . . . passes by two remarkable <b>buttes</b> of red conglomerate. <i>Ruxton.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>But"ter</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>botere</ets>, <ets>butter</ets>, AS. <ets>butere</ets>, fr. L. <ets>butyrum</ets>, Gr. <?/; either fr. <?/ ox, cow + <?/ cheese; or, perhaps, of Scythian origin. Cf. <er>Cow</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Any substance resembling butter in degree of consistence, or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the chloridess, as <i>butter of antimony</i>, sesquichloride of antimony; also, certain concrete fat oils remaining nearly solid at ordinary temperatures, as <i>butter of cacao</i>, <i>vegetable butter</i>, <i>shea butter</i>.</def>

<cs><col>Butter and eggs</col> <fld>(Bot.)</fld>, <cd>a name given to several plants having flowers of two shades of yellow, as <spn>Narcissus incomparabilis</spn>, and in the United States to the toadflax (<spn>Linaria vulgaris</spn>).</cd> -- <col>Butter boat</col>, <cd>a small vessel for holding melted butter at table.</cd> -- <col>Butter flower</col>, <cd>the buttercup, a yellow flower.</cd> -- <col>Butter print</col>, <cd>a piece of carved wood used to mark pats of butter; -- called also <altname>butter stamp</altname>.</cd> <i>Locke</i>. -- <col>Butter tooth</col>, <cd>either of the two middle incisors of the upper jaw.</cd> -- <col>Butter tree</col> <fld>(Bot.)</fld>, <cd>a tree of the genus <spn>Bassia</spn>, the seeds of which yield a substance closely resembling butter. The butter tree of India is the <spn>B. butyracea</spn>; that of Africa is the Shea tree (<spn>B. Parkii</spn>). See <er>Shea tree</er>.</cd> -- <col>Butter trier</col>, <cd>a tool used in sampling butter.</cd> -- <col>Butter wife</col>, <cd>a woman who makes or sells butter; -- called also <altname>butter woman</altname>.</cd> <mark>[Obs. or Archaic]</mark></cs>

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<hw>But"ter</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Buttered</er> (<?/); <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Buttering</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To cover or spread with butter.</def>

<blockquote>I know what's what. I know on which side My bread is <b>buttered</b>. <i>Ford.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game.</def> <mark></mark>

<i>Johnson.</i>

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<hw>Butt"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who, or that which, butts.</def>

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