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The rice bunting or bobolink; -- so called in the island of Jamaica.

The European bittern. Johnson.

aris) of the Composite family, said to have been used in England for wrapping up pats of butter.

culus, or crowfoot, particularly R. bulbosus, with bright yellow flowers; -- called also butterflower, golden cup, and kingcup. It is the cuckoobud of Shakespeare.

, as the Stromateus triacanthus of the Atlantic coast, the Epinephelus punctatus of the southern coast, the rock eel, and the kelpfish of New Zealand.

A general name for the numerous species of diurnal Lepidoptera.

ance prepared from animal fat with some other ingredients intermixed, as an imitation of butter. The manufacturers ship large quantities of oleomargarine to England, Holland, and other countries, to be manufactured into butter, which is sold as butterine or suine. Johnson's Cyc.

A steel cutting instrument, with a long bent shank set in a handle which rests against the shoulder of the operator. It is operated by a thrust movement, and used in paring the hoofs of horses.

A man who makes or sells butter.

The milk that remains after the butter is separated from the cream.

An American tree (Juglans cinerea) of the Walnut family, and its edible fruit; -- so called from the oil contained in the latter. Sometimes called oil nut and white walnut.

An annual composite plant of the Mississippi valley (Senecio lobatus).

Over weight. Swift.

A genus of low herbs (Pinguicula) having simple leaves which secrete from their glandular upper surface a viscid fluid, to which insects adhere, after which the margin infolds and the insects are digested by the plant. The species are found mostly in the North Temperate zone.

Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter.

An abuttal; a boundary. Without buttings or boundings on any side. Bp. Beveridge.

e or both, and either at right angles or oblique to the grain, as the joints which the struts and braces form with the truss posts; -- sometimes called abutting joint.

The part at the back of the hip, which, in man, forms one of the rounded protuberances on which he sits; the rump.

rent parts of dress, by being attached to one part, and passing through a slit, called a buttonhole, in the other; -- used also for ornament.

See Buttonwood.