English English Dictionary

A substance prepared from animal fat with some other ingredients intermixed, as an imitation of butter.

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A steel cutting instrument, with a long bent shank set in a handle which rests against the shoulder of the operator. It is operated by a thrust movement, and used in paring the hoofs of horses.

A man who makes or sells butter.

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The milk that remains after the butter is separated from the cream.

The nut of the Caryocar butyrosum and C. nuciferum, of S. America; -- called also Souari nut.

An American tree (Juglans cinerea) of the Walnut family, and its edible fruit; -- so called from the oil contained in the latter. Sometimes called oil nut and white walnut.

An annual composite plant of the Mississippi valley (Senecio lobatus).

Over weight.

A genus of low herbs (Pinguicula) having simple leaves which secrete from their glandular upper surface a viscid fluid, to which insects adhere, after which the margin infolds and the insects are digested by the plant. The species are found mostly in the North Temperate zone.

A cellar in which butts of wine are kept.

A room in some English colleges where liquors, fruit, and refreshments are kept for sale to the students.

An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other provisions are kept.

Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter.

An abuttal; a boundary.

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A joint between two pieces of timber or wood, at the end of one or both, and either at right angles or oblique to the grain, as the joints which the struts and braces form with the truss posts; -- sometimes called abutting joint.

The convexity of a ship behind, under the stern.