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A piece of sculpture representing the upper part of the human figure, including the head, shoulders, and breast. Ambition sighed: she found it vain to trust The faithless column, and the crumbling bust. Pope.

A joint in which the edges or ends of the pieces united come squarely together instead of overlapping. See 1st Butt, 8.

A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field. The hay was growing upon headlands and butts in cornfields. Burrill.

d butter at table. -- Butter flower, the buttercup, a yellow flower. -- Butter print, a piece of carved wood used to mark pats of butter; -- called also butter stamp. Locke. -- Butter tooth, either of the two middle incisors of the upper jaw. -- Butter tree (Bot.), a tree of the genus Bassia, the seeds of which yie…

A joint between two pieces of timber or wood, at the end of one or both, and either at right angles or oblique to the grain, as the joints which the struts and braces form with the truss posts; -- sometimes called abutting joint.

A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door.

ncidental blow; an accidental blow. With their by-blows they did split the very stones in pieces. Bunyan.

A piece of leather crossing the breast, used by the men who drag sledges in coal mines.

To purloin or embezzle, as the pieces of cloth remaining after cutting out a garment; to pilfer. Your tailor . . . cabbages whole yards of cloth. Arbuthnot.

breaking up the flat masses into which wrought iron is first hammered, in order that the pieces may be reheated and wrought into bar iron.

A decorative piece of furniture, whether open like an étagère or closed with doors. See Etagere.

A small piece of mutton or other meat roasted on a skewer; -- so called in Turkey and Persia.

larvæ generally live in cylindrical cases, open at each end, and covered externally with pieces of broken shells, gravel, bits of wood, etc. They are a favorite bait with anglers. Called also caddice worm, or caddis worm. Caddice fly (Zoöl.), a species of trichopterous insect, whose larva is the caddice.…

A parenthetic flourish or flight of ornament in the course of a piece, commonly just before the final cadence.

A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, as a ball valve.

of two parts, a body and a limber. In light field batteries there is one caisson to each piece, having two ammunition boxes on the body, and one on the limber. Farrow.

A sharp-pointed piece or iron or steel projecting downward on the shoe of a nore or an ox, to prevent the animal from slipping; -- called also calker, calkin.

stence, but is ultimately converted into true bone and unites the fragments into a single piece.

A turning or sliding piece which, by the shape of its periphery or face, or a groove in its surface, imparts variable or intermittent motion to, or receives such motion from, a rod, lever, or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.

A neck guard of chain mall, hanging from the bascinet or other headpiece.