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Biltong.

See Buhrstone.

See Buhrstone.

A peculiar tackle, formed of two or more blocks, or pulleys, the weight being suspended of a hook block in the bight of the running part.

nt 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.

lane 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.

A cream-colored limestone for building, found near Caen, France.

A yellow or smoky brown variety of rock crystal, or crystallized quartz, found esp, in the mountain of Cairngorm, in Scotland.

A Welshman.

A song or canto [Obs.] Write loyal cantons of contemned love. Shak.

A soft, white or colored silk fabric, of a gauzy texture and wavy appearance, used for ladies' scarfs, shawls, bonnet trimmings, etc.; -- called also Oriental crape. De Colange.

See Cotton flannel.

Of or pertaining to a canton or cantons; of the nature of a canton.