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o a lord; resembling a lord; hence, grand; noble; dignified; honorable. She brought forth butter in a lordly dish. Judges v. 25. Lordly sins require lordly estates to support them. South. The maidens gathered strength and grace And presence, lordlier than before. Tennyson.

Applied to boiled potatoes cut into small pieces and heated in oil or butter. They are usually flavored with onion and parsley.

wheels, and the flowers for food and in preparing an intoxicating drink. It is one of the butter trees. The oil, known as mahwa and yallah, is obtained from the kernels of the fruit.

Artificial butter; oleomargarine.

ortus) of tuliplike bulbous herbs with large, and often gaycolored, blossoms. Called also butterfly lily. Most of them are natives of California.

To be changed from a solid to a liquid state under the influence of heat; as, butter and wax melt at moderate temperatures.

The scutum or dorsal plate of the middle thoracic segment of an insect. See Illust. of Butterfly.

erum and sometimes of pus in the cellular tissue. -- Milk meats, food made from milk, as butter and cheese. [Obs.] Bailey. -- Milk mirror. Same as Escutcheon, 2. -- Milk molar (Anat.), one of the deciduous molar teeth which are shed and replaced by the premolars. -- Milk of lime (Chem.), a watery emulsion of calciu…

A very large red and black butterfly (Danais Plexippus); -- called also milkweed butterfly.

Any one of numerous species of large, handsome, tropical American butterflies, of the genus Morpho. They are noted for the very brilliant metallic luster and bright colors (often blue) of the upper surface of the wings. The lower surface is usually brown or gray, with eyelike spots.

Any nocturnal lepidopterous insect, or any not included among the butterflies; as, the luna moth; Io moth; hawk moth.

The mouth. [Obs.] One a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns, Butter them and sugar them and put them in your muns. Old Rhyme. Halliwell.

The myristate of glycerin, -- found as a vegetable fat in nutmeg butter, etc.

One of a group of butterflies. See Nymph.

ne, thread, or the like, wrought or woven into meshes, and used for catching fish, birds, butterflies, etc.

Any one of a subfamily (Najades) of butterflies including the purples, the fritillaries, the peacock butterfly, etc.; -- called also naiad.

An extensive family of butterflies including the nymphs, the satyrs, the monarchs, the heliconias, and others; -- called also brush-footed butterflies.

An artificial butter made by churning this oil with more or less milk.

tropical orchidaceous plants, the flower of one species of which (O. Papilio) resembles a butterfly.

A group of butterflies which includes the satyrs. See Satyr, 2.