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To cause to come; to bring to a particular state. They could n't fetch the butter in the churn. W. Barnes. To fetch a compass (Naut.), to make a sircuit; to take a circuitious route going to a place. -- To fetch a pump, to make it draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle. -- To fetch headway or…

A small wooden vessel or cask of indeterminate size, -- used for butter, lard, etc. [U.S.]

A mixture of buttermilk and boiling whey; curds. [prov. Eng.] Wright.

The fore flap of a bootee; also, a lap on trousers, overcoats, etc., to conceal a row of buttons.

on used in fencing, resembling a smallsword in the main, but usually lighter and having a button at the point. Blunt as the fencer's foils, which hit, but hurt not. Shak. socrates contended with a foil against Demosthenes with a word. Mitford.

A dish made of cheese, eggs, butter, etc., melted together.

One of several species of butterflies belonging to Argynnis and allied genera; -- so called because the coloring of their wings resembles that of the common Fritillaria. See Aphrodite.

An oblong cloak button, covered with netted thread, and fastening into a loop instead of a button hole.

Musty. rancid; as, frowy butter. "Frowy feed." Spenser

To cook in a pan or on a griddle (esp. with the use of fat, butter, or olive oil) by heating over a fire; to cook in boiling lard or fat; as, to fry fish; to fry doughnuts.

With direct and violentop position; with sudden collision. [Colloq.] L'Estrange.

ss, mobile liquid which fumes in the air. Mixed with water it solidifies to the so-called butter of tin. -- Fuming sulphuric acid. (Chem.) Same as Disulphuric acid, uder Disulphuric.

The part of the body on which one sits; the buttocks; specifically (Anat.), the anus. Hume.

The buttock or tight of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch. Goldsmith.

scertaining or regulating the dimensions or forms of things; a templet or template; as, a button maker's gauge.

Butter clarified by boiling, and thus converted into a kind of oil. [India] Malcom.

The great muscle of the buttock in man and most mammals, and the corresponding muscle in many lower animals.

of gold, as used by dentists and others. See Gold leaf. -- Gold knobs or knoppes (Bot.), buttercups. -- Gold lace, a kind of lace, made of gold thread. -- Gold latten, a thin plate of gold or gilded metal. -- Gold leaf, gold beaten into a film of extreme thinness, and used for gilding, etc. It is much thinner than…

um aquaticum), bearing a thick spike of minute yellow flowers. -- Golden cup (Bot.), the buttercup. -- Golden eagle (Zoöl.), a large and powerful eagle (Aquila Chrysaëtos) inhabiting Europe, Asia, and North America. It is so called from the brownish yellow tips of the feathers on the head and neck. A dark variety is…

ts of yellow flowers which terminate the stems; also, the Ranunculus auricomus, a kind of buttercup.