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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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BUTCHER'S BROOM n.

A genus of plants (Ruscus); esp. R. aculeatus, which has large red berries and leaflike branches. See Cladophyll.

BUTCHERING n. 2 definitions

The business of a butcher.

BUTCHERLINESS n.

Butchery quality.

Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell. "The victim of a butcherly murder." D. Webster. What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly, This deadly quarrel daily doth beget! Shak.

BUTCHERY n. 3 definitions

The business of a butcher. [Obs.]

it is to take charge of the liquors, plate, etc.; the head servant in a large house. The butler and the baker of the king of Egypt. Gen. xl. 5. Your wine locked up, your butler strolled abroad. Pope.

A duty of two shillings on every tun of wine imported into England by merchant strangers; -- so called because paid to the king's butler for the king. Blackstone.

The office of a butler.

BUTMENT n. 2 definitions

A buttress of an arch; the supporter, or that part which joins it to the upright pier.

BUTT v. 5 definitions

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.

See 1st Butt, 10.

dges or ends of the pieces united come squarely together instead of overlapping. See 1st Butt, 8.

An arrow without a barb, for shooting at butts; an arrow. [Also but shaft.] Shak.

See Butt weld, under Butt.

BUTT; BUT n. 14 definitions

A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end. Here is my journey's end, here my butt And very sea mark of my utmost sail. Shak.

culiar elevations in the Rocky Mountain region. The creek . . . passes by two remarkable buttes of red conglomerate. Ruxton.

BUTTER n. 5 definitions

Any substance resembling butter in degree of consistence, or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the chloridess, 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 and eg…

BUTTER-FINGERED a.

Apt to let things fall, or to let them slip away; slippery; careless.

BUTTER-SCOTCH n.

A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter. [Colloq.] Dickens.

The buffel duck.