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A butyrate of glycerin; a fat contained in small quantity in milk, which helps to give to butter its peculiar flavor.

An instrument for determining the amount of fatty matter or butter contained in a sample of milk.

A liquid ketone obtained by heating calcium butyrate.

Butyraceous.

The radical (C4H7O) of butyric acid.

rminate or border; to be contiguous; to meet; -- with on, upon, or against; as, his land abuts on the road.

A genus of malvaceous plants of many species, found in the torrid and temperate zones of both continents; -- called also Indian mallow.

State of abutting.

The butting or boundary of land, particularly at the end; a headland. Spelman.

One who, or that which, abuts. Specifically, the owner of a contiguous estate; as, the abutters on a street or a river.

A chronic skin affection terminating in an ulcer, most commonly of the face. It is endemic along the Mediterranean, and is probably due to a specific bacillus. Called also Aleppo ulcer, Biskara boil, Delhi boil, Oriental sore, etc.

A chronic contagious affection of the skin, prevalent in the tropics.

Counteracting scurvy. -- n.

Antiscorbutic.

n shrubs, of the Heath family. It has a berry externally resembling the strawberry; the arbute tree. Trailing arbutus (Bot.), a creeping or trailing plant of the Heath family (Epigæa repens), having white or usually rose- colored flowers with a delicate fragrance, growing in small axillary clusters, and appearing early…

A chief butler; -- an officer of the German empire.

Capable of being attributed; ascribable; imputable. Errors . . . attributable to carelessness. J. D. Hooker.

er, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to). We attribute nothing to God that hath any repugnancy or contradiction in it. Abp. Tillotson. The merit of service is seldom attributed to the true and exact performer. Shak.

The act of attributing or ascribing, as a quality, character, or function, to a thing or person, an effect to a cause.

Attributing; pertaining to, expressing, or assigning an attribute; of the nature of an attribute.