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Outer. "Thine utter eyen." Chaucer. [Obs.] "By him a shirt and utter mantle laid." Chapman. As doth an hidden moth The inner garment fret, not th' utter touch. Spenser.

Capable of being uttered.

The act of uttering. Specifically: --

One who utters. Spenser.

Uttermost. To the utterest proof of her courage. Chaucer.

Incapable of being uttered. [Obs.] A clamoring debate of utterless things. Milton.

In an utter manner; to the full extent; fully; totally; as, utterly ruined; it is utterly vain.

Further; outer; utter. [Obs. & R.] Holland.

Extreme; utmost; being; in the farthest, greatest, or highest degree; as, the uttermost extent or end. "In this uttermost distress." Milton.

The quality or state of being utter, or extreme; extremity; utmost; uttermost. [R.]

One who, or that which, abuts. Specifically, the owner of a contiguous estate; as, the abutters on a street or a river.

In a flutter; agitated.

Any substance resembling butter in degree of consistence, or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the chloridess, as butter of antimony, sesquichloride of antimony; also, certain concrete fat oils remaining nearly solid at ordinary temperatures, as butter of cacao, vegetable butter, shea butter. Butter and eg…

Apt to let things fall, or to let them slip away; slippery; careless.

A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter. [Colloq.] Dickens.

The buffel duck.

The rice bunting or bobolink; -- so called in the island of Jamaica.

The European bittern. Johnson.

aris) of the Composite family, said to have been used in England for wrapping up pats of butter.

culus, or crowfoot, particularly R. bulbosus, with bright yellow flowers; -- called also butterflower, golden cup, and kingcup. It is the cuckoobud of Shakespeare.