Butter
['bʌtə] or ['bʌtɚ]
Definition
(noun.) an edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use.
(noun.) a fighter who strikes the opponent with his head.
(verb.) spread butter on; 'butter bread'.
Checker: Sondra--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning.
(n.) Any substance resembling butter in degree of consistence, or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the chlorides, 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.
(v. t.) To cover or spread with butter.
(v. t.) To increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game.
(n.) One who, or that which, butts.
Typist: Tim
Definition
n. an oily substance obtained from cream by churning.—v.t. to spread over with butter.—ns. Butt′er-bird the name in Jamaica for the rice-bunting; Butt′er-boat a table vessel for holding melted butter; Butt′er-bump a bittern; Butt′er-bur -dock the sweet coltsfoot; Butt′ercup a plant of the Crowfoot genus with a cup-like flower of a golden yellow; Butt′er-fing′ers one who lets a cricket-ball he ought to catch slip through his fingers; Butt′er-fish (see Gunnel); Butt′erfly the name of an extensive group of beautiful winged insects: (fig.) a light-headed person.—adj. light flighty like a butterfly.—ns. Butt′erine an artificial fatty compound sold as a substitute for butter—since 1887 only allowed to be sold under the names margarine or oleo-margarine; Butt′er-milk the milk that remains after the butter has been separated from the cream by churning; Butt′er-nut the oily nut of the North American white walnut the tree itself or its light-coloured close-grained wood: the nut of a lofty timber-tree of Guiana—the souari-nut; Butt′er-scotch a kind of toffee containing a large admixture of butter; Butt′er-tree a genus of plants found in the East Indies and in Africa remarkable for a sweet buttery substance yielded by their seeds when boiled; Butt′er-wife Butt′er-wom′an a woman who makes and sells butter; Butt′er-wort a genus of small plants found in marshy places so called either from the power of the leaves to coagulate milk or from their peculiar sliminess.—adj. Butt′ery like butter.
Typist: Psyche
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of eating fresh, golden butter, is a sign of good health and plans well carried out; it will bring unto you possessions, wealth and knowledge. To eat rancid butter, denotes a competency acquired through struggles of manual labor. To sell butter, denotes small gain.
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Examples
- I took advantage of a moment when Joe had just looked at me, and got my bread and butter down my leg. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- She's got such a soft heart, it will melt like butter in the sun if anyone looks sentimentlly at her. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- He therefore concluded that the stored-up fat in the animal was then converted into cream, and that it was practicable, therefore, to convert beef fat into butter fat. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Butter already rancid can be improved by treatment with a stronger solution (8 drachms of acid to 1 gallon of water), followed by washing in pure water. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- She might whistle for her bread and butter till she died of Air. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Chemical analysis shows oleomargarine to have substantially the same constituents and in almost the identical proportions of pure butter. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- You ho me a milk and butter bill of two 'undred pound, you must 'ave noo laid heggs for your homlets, and cream for your spanil dog. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Buttered toast, mind,' said the gentleman fiercely. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Arthur made no remark upon it, and repaired to his mother's room, where Mr Casby and Flora had been taking tea, anchovy paste, and hot buttered toast. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I wish yer'd ordered her to make some buttered toast first. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He may be, or he may not,' replied Mrs. Weller, buttering the round of toast which the red-nosed man had just finished. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
Editor: Segre