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To support with a buttress; to prop; to brace firmly.
A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry.
Anything which supports or strengthens.
of Buttress
of Buttress
To unite by a butt weld.
One who mines by contract, at so much per ton of coal or ore.
A compound radical, regarded as butane, less one atom of hydrogen.
Any one of three metameric hydrocarbons, C4H8, of the ethylene series. They are gaseous or easily liquefiable.
Having the qualities of butter; resembling butter.
A salt of butyric acid.
Pertaining to, or derived from, butter.
A butyrate of glycerin; a fat contained in small quantity in milk, which helps to give to butter its peculiar flavor.
An instrument for determining the amount of fatty matter or butter contained in a sample of milk.
A liquid ketone obtained by heating calcium butyrate.
Butyraceous.
Belonging to the box tree.
An alkaloid obtained from the Buxus sempervirens, or common box tree. It is identical with bebeerine; -- called also buxina.
Yielding; pliable or compliant; ready to obey; obedient; tractable; docile; meek; humble.
Having the characteristics of health, vigor, and comeliness, combined with a gay, lively manner; stout and rosy; jolly; frolicsome.