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Except with; unless with; without. [Obs.] So insolent that he could not go but either spurning equals or trampling on his inferiors. Fuller. Touch not the cat but a glove. Motto of the Mackintoshes.

The common European starfish (Asterias rubens).

An inflammable gaseous hydrocarbon, C4H10, of the marsh gas, or paraffin, series.

ge numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle. "Butcher of an innocent child." Shak. Butcher bird (Zoöl.), a species of shrike of the genus Lanius.

A genus of plants (Ruscus); esp. R. aculeatus, which has large red berries and leaflike branches. See Cladophyll.

The business of a butcher.

Butchery quality.

Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell. "The victim of a butcherly murder." D. Webster. What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly, This deadly quarrel daily doth beget! Shak.

The business of a butcher. [Obs.]

it is to take charge of the liquors, plate, etc.; the head servant in a large house. The butler and the baker of the king of Egypt. Gen. xl. 5. Your wine locked up, your butler strolled abroad. Pope.

wine imported into England by merchant strangers; -- so called because paid to the king's butler for the king. Blackstone.

The office of a butler.

A buttress of an arch; the supporter, or that part which joins it to the upright pier.

To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut. [Written also but.] And Barnsdale there doth butt on Don's well-watered ground. Drayton.

See 1st Butt, 10.

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

An arrow without a barb, for shooting at butts; an arrow. [Also but shaft.] Shak.

See Butt weld, under Butt.

A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end. Here is my journey's end, here my butt And very sea mark of my utmost sail. Shak.

eculiar elevations in the Rocky Mountain region. The creek . . . passes by two remarkable buttes of red conglomerate. Ruxton.