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ne, thread, or the like, wrought or woven into meshes, and used for catching fish, birds, butterflies, etc.

To butt; to push with the horns. [Prov. Eng.]

isons known as strychnine and brucine are obtained. The seeds are sometimes called Quaker buttons.

Any one of a subfamily (Najades) of butterflies including the purples, the fritillaries, the peacock butterfly, etc.; -- called also naiad.

An extensive family of butterflies including the nymphs, the satyrs, the monarchs, the heliconias, and others; -- called also brush-footed butterflies.

An artificial butter made by churning this oil with more or less milk.

tropical orchidaceous plants, the flower of one species of which (O. Papilio) resembles a butterfly.

A group of butterflies which includes the satyrs. See Satyr, 2.

f production, or bringing into being. This eruca is propagated by animal parents, to wit, butterflies, after the common origination of all caterpillars. Ray.

One of a pair of scent organs which the larvæ of certain butterflies emit from the first body segment, either above or below.

A colorless buttery substance obtained from the fruit of Myristica otoba, a species of nutmeg tree.

me out." Dryden. Deceitiful men shall not live out half their days. Ps. iv. 23. When the butt is out, we will drink water. Shak.

ors; as, the painted turtle; painted bunting. Painted beauty (Zoöl.), a handsome American butterfly (Vanessa Huntera), having a variety of bright colors, -- Painted cup (Bot.), any plant of an American genus of herbs (Castilleia) in which the bracts are usually bright-colored and more showy than the flowers. Castilleia…

curs mixed with stearin and olein in the fat of animal tissues, with olein and butyrin in butter, with olein in olive oil, etc. Chemically, it is a glyceride of palmitic acid, three molecules of palmitic acid being united to one molecule of glyceryl, and hence it is technically called tripalmitin, or glyceryl tripalmit…

A genus of butterflies.

Resembling the butterfly.

The division of Lepidoptera which includes the butterflies.

The typical butterflies.

Any one of numerous species of butterflies belonging to the genus Parnassius. They inhabit the mountains, both in the Old World and in America.

ermination of alloys; esp., the separation, as by acids, of gold from silver in the assay button.