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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 chief butler; -- an officer of the German empire.

A kind of pleasure carriage; a coach. [Obs.] To mount two-wheeled caroches. Butler.

A steward or butler of a monastery or chapter; one who has charge of procuring and keeping the provisions.

m engrossing occupation; leisure. Disengagement is absolutely necessary to enjoyment. Bp. Butler.

To seek the bushy forest; to hide in the woods. [Obs.] S. Butler.

To border; to touch. Bp. Butler.

The gibbet. [Obs.] Bp. Butler. Fork beam (Shipbuilding), a half beam to support a deck, where hatchways occur. -- Fork chuck (Wood Turning), a lathe center having two prongs for driving the work. -- Fork head. (a) The barbed head of an arrow. (b) The forked end of a rod which forms part of a knuckle joint. -- In for…

To take or carry on the back; as, the keeper, horsing a deer. S. Butler.

Similar to, or in the style of, the poem "Hudibras," by Samuel Butler; in the style of doggerel verse. Macaulay.

ry cold; fright, as, a hyperborean coast or atmosphere. The hyperborean or frozen sea. C. Butler (1633).

tate of being inaccessible; inaccessibleness. "The inaccessibility of the precipice." Bp. Butler.

Not discerpible; inseparable. [Obs.] Bp. Butler. -- In`dis*cerp"i*ble*ness, n., In`dis*cerp"ti*ble*ness, n. [Obs.] -- In`dis*cerp"ti*bly, adv. [Obs.]

Rusticity; coarseness. [Obs.] p. Butler.

o do law business in a petty or tricky way. "He takes no money, but pettifogs gratis." S. Butler.

rting twenty tuns or more, -- one before and one behind the mast. By charter of Edward I. butlerage was substituted for this. Blackstone.

ervert; as, to sophisticate wine. Howell. To sophisticate the understanding. Southey. Yet Butler professes to stick to plain facts, not to sophisticate, not to refine. M. Arnold. They purchase but sophisticated ware. Dryden.

aced upon the table. "Spiced wassail bowl." J. Fletcher. "When the cloth was removed, the butler brought in a huge silver vessel . . . Its appearance was hailed with acclamation, being the wassail bowl so renowned in Christmas festivity." W. Irving. -- Wassail cup, a cup from which wassail was drunk.…