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Except with; unless with; without.
Excepting or excluding the fact that; save that; were it not that; unless; -- elliptical, for but that.
Otherwise than that; that not; -- commonly, after a negative, with that.
Only; solely; merely.
On the contrary; on the other hand; only; yet; still; however; nevertheless; more; further; -- as connective of sentences or clauses of a sentence, in a sense more or less exceptive or adversative; as, the House of Representatives passed the bill, but the Senate dissented; our wants are many, but quite of another kind.
The outer apartment or kitchen of a two-roomed house; -- opposed to ben, the inner room.
A limit; a boundary.
The end; esp. the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in distinction from the sharp, end. See 1st Butt.
See Butt, v., and Abut, v.
The common European starfish (Asterias rubens).
An inflammable gaseous hydrocarbon, C4H10, of the marsh gas, or paraffin, series.
To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner.
A slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle.
To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs.
One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food.
A genus of plants (Ruscus); esp. R. aculeatus, which has large red berries and leaflike branches. See Cladophyll.
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The business of a butcher.
The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly.