English English Dictionary

A detached low mountain, or high rising abruptly from the general level of the surrounding plain; -- applied to peculiar elevations in the Rocky Mountain region.

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

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.

One who, or that which, butts.

To cover or spread with butter.

To increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game.

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

A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter.

The buffel duck.

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

The European bittern.

A broad-leaved plant (Petasites vulgaris) of the Composite family, said to have been used in England for wrapping up pats of butter.

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

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A name given to several different fishes, in allusion to their slippery coating of mucus, as the Stromateus triacanthus of the Atlantic coast, the Epinephelus punctatus of the southern coast, the rock eel, and the kelpfish of New Zealand.

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A general name for the numerous species of diurnal Lepidoptera.

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