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To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out. I hate when Vice can bolt her arguments. Milton.

ls for dressing round holes. -- Boring tool (Metal Working), a cutting tool placed in a cutter head to dress round holes. Knight.

To utter a loud, harsh cry, as an ass. Laugh, and they Return it louder than an ass can bray. Dryden.

To emit or utter by the breath; to utter softly; to whisper; as, to breathe a vow. He softly breathed thy name. Dryden. Or let the church, our mother, breathe her curse, A mother's curse, on her revolting son. Shak.

One who breathes. Hence: (a) One who lives.(b) One who utters. (c) One who animates or inspires.

Utterance; communication or publicity by words. I am sorry to give breathing to my purpose. Shak.

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

A light cake made with flour, butter, yeast, and eggs.

To make public; to utter; to publish first; to put forth; to introduce as a topic of conversation. Those very opinions themselves had broached. Swift.

One who broaches, opens, or utters; a first publisher or promoter. Some such broacher of heresy. Atterbury.

A small duck (Charitonetta albeola); the spirit duck, or butterball. The head of the male is covered with numerous elongated feathers, and thus appears large. Called also bufflehead.

A sort of pear, called also the red butter pear, from its smooth, delicious, soft pulp.

Having the qualities of butter; resembling butter.

Pertaining to, or derived from, butter. Butyric acid, C3H7.CO2H, an acid found in butter; an oily, limpid fluid, having the smell of rancid butter, and an acrid taste, with a sweetish aftertaste, like that of ether. There are two metameric butyric acids, called in distinction the normal- and iso-butyric acid. The norma…

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.

continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings. Hence: To utter a murmuring sound; to speak with a low, humming voice. Like a wasp is buzzed, and stung him. Longfellow. However these disturbers of our peace Buzz in the people's ears. Shak.

ots, and when adult, on the leaves, of cabbage and other cruciferous plants. -- Cabbage butterfly (Zoöl.), a white butterfly (Pieris rapæ of both Europe and America, and the Allied P. oleracea, a native American species) which, in the larval state, devours the leaves of the cabbage and the turnip. See Cabbage worm, be…

To utter in a loud or distinct voice; -- often with off; as, to call, or call off, the items of an account; to call the roll of a military company. No parish clerk who calls the psalm so clear. Gay.

(Cookery) A slice or piece of bread fried in butter or oil, on which anchovies, mushrooms, etc., are served.