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wheels, and the flowers for food and in preparing an intoxicating drink. It is one of the butter trees. The oil, known as mahwa and yallah, is obtained from the kernels of the fruit.

An object of ridicule; a butt. Godwin.

Artificial butter; oleomargarine.

ortus) of tuliplike bulbous herbs with large, and often gaycolored, blossoms. Called also butterfly lily. Most of them are natives of California.

Drunk, or somewhat drunk; fuddled; given to drunkenness. Maudlin Clarence in his malmsey butt. Byron.

To be changed from a solid to a liquid state under the influence of heat; as, butter and wax melt at moderate temperatures.

The scutum or dorsal plate of the middle thoracic segment of an insect. See Illust. of Butterfly.

erum and sometimes of pus in the cellular tissue. -- Milk meats, food made from milk, as butter and cheese. [Obs.] Bailey. -- Milk mirror. Same as Escutcheon, 2. -- Milk molar (Anat.), one of the deciduous molar teeth which are shed and replaced by the premolars. -- Milk of lime (Chem.), a watery emulsion of calciu…

A butt of sport; an object of derision. [R.]

A very large red and black butterfly (Danais Plexippus); -- called also milkweed butterfly.

of it (usually the initials). Monograms are often used on seals, ornamental pins, rings, buttons, and by painters, engravers, etc., to distinguish their works. Monogram.

Any one of numerous species of large, handsome, tropical American butterflies, of the genus Morpho. They are noted for the very brilliant metallic luster and bright colors (often blue) of the upper surface of the wings. The lower surface is usually brown or gray, with eyelike spots.

Any nocturnal lepidopterous insect, or any not included among the butterflies; as, the luna moth; Io moth; hawk moth.

the part next below the round or from the lower part of the latter; -- called also mouse buttock.

eated from the direct action of the fire, as in scorification of ores, cupellation of ore buttons, etc.

The mouth. [Obs.] One a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns, Butter them and sugar them and put them in your muns. Old Rhyme. Halliwell.

The myristate of glycerin, -- found as a vegetable fat in nutmeg butter, etc.

One of a group of butterflies. See Nymph.

The buttocks.

A mark or depression in the middle of the abdomen; the umbilicus. See Umbilicus.belly button in humans