BPage 488
- English Word Buttonhole Definition The hole or loop in which a button is caught.
- English Word Buttonhole Definition To hold at the button or buttonhole; to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; as, he buttonholed me a quarter of an hour.
- English Word Buttoning Definition of Button
- English Word Buttonmold Definition A disk of bone, wood, or other material, which is made into a button by covering it with cloth.
- English Word Buttons Definition A boy servant, or page, -- in allusion to the buttons on his livery.
- English Word Buttonweed Definition The name of several plants of the genera Spermacoce and Diodia, of the Madder family.
- English Word Buttonwood Definition 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.
- English Word Buttony Definition Ornamented with a large number of buttons.
- English Word Buttress Definition A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry.
- English Word Buttress Definition Anything which supports or strengthens.
- English Word Buttress Definition To support with a buttress; to prop; to brace firmly.
- English Word Buttressed Definition of Buttress
- English Word Buttressing Definition of Buttress
- English Word Buttweld Definition To unite by a butt weld.
- English Word Butty Definition One who mines by contract, at so much per ton of coal or ore.
- English Word Butyl Definition A compound radical, regarded as butane, less one atom of hydrogen.
- English Word Butylene Definition Any one of three metameric hydrocarbons, C4H8, of the ethylene series. They are gaseous or easily liquefiable.
- English Word Butyraceous Definition Having the qualities of butter; resembling butter.
- English Word Butyrate Definition A salt of butyric acid.
- English Word Butyric Definition Pertaining to, or derived from, butter.