Butter

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A soft yellowish or whitish emulsion of butterfat, water, air, and sometimes salt, churned from milk or cream and processed for use in cooking and as a food.
  • n. Any of various substances similar to butter, especially:
  • n. A spread made from fruit, nuts, or other foods: apple butter.
  • n. A vegetable fat having a nearly solid consistency at ordinary temperatures.
  • n. Flattery.
  • v. To put butter on or in.
  • phrasal-verb. butter up To praise or flatter excessively: You're always buttering up the boss.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).
  • n. Any specific soft substance.
  • n. Any of various foodstuffs made from other foods or oils, similar in consistency to, eaten like or intended as a substitute for butter (preceded by the name of the food used to make it).
  • v. To spread butter on.
  • v. To move one's weight backwards or forwards onto the tips or tails of one's skis or snowboard so only the tip or tail is in contact with the snow.
  • n. Someone who butts; someone who butts in
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning.
  • n. 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.
  • v. To cover or spread with butter.
  • v. To increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game.
  • n. One who, or that which, butts.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The fatty portion of milk.
  • n. In old chemistry, a term applied to certain anhydrous metallic chlorids of buttery consistence and fusibility.
  • To smear with butter.
  • To flatter grossly: as, he buttered him to his heart's content.
  • In gambling slang, to stake the previous winnings, with addition, at every throw or every game.
  • n. One who or that which butts; an animal that butts.
  • n. A machine for sawing off the ends of boards, to square them and remove faulty parts.
  • n. An obsolete form of bittern. Compare butterbump.
  • n. One who has charge of a butt or fire-bucket. See butt, n., 1.
  • In cricket, to fail to make a simple and easy catch; to muff.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use
  • n. a fighter who strikes the opponent with his head
  • v. spread butter on
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