English English Dictionary

The part at the back of the hip, which, in man, forms one of the rounded protuberances on which he sits; the rump.

To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button.

A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.

A catch, of various forms and materials, used to fasten together the different parts of dress, by being attached to one part, and passing through a slit, called a buttonhole, in the other; -- used also for ornament.

A bud; a germ of a plant.

A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door.

A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.

To dress or clothe.

To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; -- often followed by up.

See Buttonwood.

A shrub (Cephalanthus occidentalis) growing by the waterside; -- so called from its globular head of flowers. See Capitulum.

of Button

The hole or loop in which a button is caught.

To hold at the button or buttonhole; to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; as, he buttonholed me a quarter of an hour.

of Button

A disk of bone, wood, or other material, which is made into a button by covering it with cloth.

A boy servant, or page, -- in allusion to the buttons on his livery.

The name of several plants of the genera Spermacoce and Diodia, of the Madder family.

The Platanus occidentalis, or American plane tree, a large tree, producing rough balls, from which it is named; -- called also buttonball tree, and, in some parts of the United States, sycamore. The California buttonwood is P. racemosa.

Ornamented with a large number of buttons.