BUTTER

butter

(noun) an edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use

butter

(noun) a fighter who strikes the opponent with his head

butter

(verb) spread butter on; “butter bread”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

butter (usually uncountable, plural butters)

A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).

Any of various foodstuffs made from other foods or oils, similar in consistency to, eaten like or intended as a substitute for butter (preceded by the name of the food used to make it).

(obsolete, chemistry) Any specific soft substance.

(aviation, slang) A smooth plane landing.

Verb

butter (third-person singular simple present butters, present participle buttering, simple past and past participle buttered)

(transitive) To spread butter on.

To move one's weight backwards or forwards onto the tips or tails of one's skis or snowboard so only the tip or tail is in contact with the snow.

(slang, obsolete, transitive) To increase (stakes) at every throw of dice, or every game.

Etymology 2

Noun

butter (plural butters)

Someone who butts, or who butts in.

Source: Wiktionary

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But"ter, n. Etym: [OE. botere, butter, AS. butere, fr. L. butyrum, Gr. Cow.]

1. An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning.

2. 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 eggs (Bot.), a name given to several plants having flowers of two shades of yellow, as Narcissus incomparabilis, and in the United States to the toadflax (Linaria vulgaris).

– 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 B. butyracea; that of Africa is the Shea tree (B. 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]

But"ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Buttered (p. pr. & vb. n. Buttering.]

1. To cover or spread with butter. I know what's what. I know on which side My bread is buttered. Ford.

2. To increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game. [Cant] Johnson.

Butt"er, n.

Definition: One who, or that which, butts.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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