butter
Noun · VerbWordNet 3.0
Noun (2)
- an edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use
- a fighter who strikes the opponent with his head
Verb (1)
- spread butter on“butter bread”
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
1.To cover or spread with butter. [1913 Webster]
I know what's what. I know on which side My bread is buttered.— Ford.[1913 Webster]
2.To increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game. [Cant] --Johnson. [1913 Webster]
1.An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning. [1913 Webster]
2.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. [1913 Webster]
Butter boat, a small vessel for holding melted 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 yield a substance closely resembling butter. The butter tree of India is the Bassia butyracea; that of Africa is the Shea tree (Bassia Parkii). See Shea tree.
Butter trier, a tool used in sampling butter.
Butter wife, a woman who makes or sells butter; -- called also butter woman. [Obs. or Archaic] [1913 Webster]