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part of a brick with one whole end. Bat bolt (Machinery), a bolt barbed or jagged at its butt or tang to make it hold the more firmly. Knight.

Provisions ordered from the buttery; also, the charges for them; -- only in the pl., except when used adjectively. [Univ. of Oxford, Eng.]

A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge. Wright.

walls, roof, or other part of a building, or of the whole building, as marked off by the buttresses, vaulting, mullions of a window, etc.; one of the main divisions of any structure, as the part of a bridge between two piers.

In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.

A rich, white sauce, prepared with butter and cream.

Earlier; sooner than; until then. When the butt is out, we will drink water; not a drop before. Shak.

To shear, as the buttocks and tails of sheep. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

The best quality of sole leather; a butt. See Butt.

A beurré (or buttery) pear, one with the meas, Beurré d'Anjou; Beurré Clairgeau.

ing an eyelike spot on the wing, with two dots within it of a different color, as in some butterflies.

the butterbump or bittern.

A buttonhole stitch worked wide apart on the edge of material, as blankets, too thick to hem.

to make a loud noise), Bog blitter, Bog bluiter, Bog jumper, the bittern. [Prov.] -- Bog butter, a hydrocarbon of butterlike consistence found in the peat bogs of Ireland. -- Bog earth (Min.), a soil composed for the most part of silex and partially decomposed vegetable fiber. P. Cyc. -- Bog moss. (Bot.) Same as Sph…

The fundament; the buttocks.

Having a bud or button, or a kind of trefoil, at the end; furnished with knobs or buttons. Cross bottony (Her.), a cross having each arm terminating in three rounded lobes, forming a sort of trefoil.

A bouquet worn in a buttonhole.

ther a literal or a metaphorical sense; as, a single-breasted coat. The close minister is buttoned up, and the brave officer open- breasted, on these occasions. Spectator.

The lower part of the body behind; the buttocks.

Bread soaked in broth, drippings of roast meat, milk, or water and butter.