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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.

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.

erent 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.

A shrub (Cephalanthus occidentalis) growing by the waterside; - - so called from its globular head of flowers. See Capitulum.

The hole or loop in which a button is caught.

A disk of bone, wood, or other material, which is made into a button by covering it with cloth. [Written also buttonmould.] Fossil buttonmolds, joints of encrinites. See Encrinite.

A boy servant, or page, -- in allusion to the buttons on his livry. [Colloq.] Dickens.

The name of several plants of the genera Spermacoce and Diodia, of the Madder family.

n plane tree, a large tree, producing rough balls, from which it is named; -- called also buttonball tree, and, in some parts of the United States, sycamore. The California buttonwood is P. racemosa.

Ornamented with a large number of buttons. "The buttony boy." Thackeray. "My coat so blue and buttony." W. S. Gilbert.

Anything which supports or strengthens. "The ground pillar and buttress of the good old cause of nonconformity." South. Flying buttress. See Flying buttress.

To unite by a butt weld.