'Butter' definitions:
Definition of 'butter'
From: WordNet
noun
An edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use
noun
A fighter who strikes the opponent with his head
verb
Spread butter on; "butter bread"
Definition of 'Butter'
From: GCIDE
- Butter \But"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Buttered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Buttering.]
- 1. To cover or spread with butter. [1913 Webster]
- I know what's what. I know on which side My bread is buttered. --Ford. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game. [Cant] --Johnson. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Butter'
From: GCIDE
- Butter \But"ter\ (b[u^]t"t[~e]r), n. [OE. botere, butter, AS. butere, fr. L. butyrum, Gr. boy`turon; either fr. boy`s ox, cow + turo`s cheese; or, perhaps, of Scythian origin. Cf. Cow.]
- 1. An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. [1913 Webster]
- Butter boat, a small vessel for holding melted butter at table.
- Butter flower, the buttercup, a yellow flower.
- Butter print, a piece of carved wood used to mark pats of butter; -- called also butter stamp. --Locke.
- Butter tooth, either of the two middle incisors of the upper jaw.
- Butter tree (Bot.), a tree of the genus Bassia, the seeds of which yield a substance closely resembling butter. The butter tree of India is the Bassia butyracea; that of Africa is the Shea tree (Bassia Parkii). See {Shea tree}.
- Butter trier, a tool used in sampling butter.
- Butter wife, a woman who makes or sells butter; -- called also butter woman. [Obs. or Archaic] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Butter'
From: GCIDE
- Butter \Butt"er\, n. One who, or that which, butts. [1913 Webster] Butter and eggs
Definition of 'Butter'
From: Easton
- Butter (Heb. hemah), curdled milk (Gen. 18:8; Judg. 5:25; 2 Sam. 17:29), or butter in the form of the skim of hot milk or cream, called by the Arabs kaimak, a semi-fluid (Job 20:17; 29:6; Deut. 32:14). The words of Prov. 30:33 have been rendered by some "the pressure [not churning] of milk bringeth forth cheese."
Synonyms of 'butter'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- albumen,
- batter,
- bedaub,
- besmear,
- blandness,
- blarney,
- blubber,
- bonnyclabber,
- breeze,
- butter up,
- buttermilk,
- cataplasm,
- certified milk,
- cheese,
- clabber,
- clay,
- coat,
- condensed milk,
- cornstarch,
- cream,
- crush,
- curd,
- cushion,
- dab,
- dairy products,
- daub,
- dental pulp,
- dough,
- down,
- egg white,
- eiderdown,
- enamel,
- fair words,
- feather bed,
- feathers,
- fleece,
- floss,
- flue,
- fluff,
- foam,
- fulsomeness,
- gaum,
- gel,
- gelatin,
- get around,
- ghee,
- gild,
- glair,
- glibness,
- glop,
- gloss,
- glue,
- gluten,
- goo,
- gook,
- goop,
- gruel,
- gumbo,
- gunk,
- half-and-half,
- heavy cream,
- honey,
- honeyed words,
- incense,
- jam,
- jell,
- jelly,
- jolly,
- kapok,
- kid along,
- lacquer,
- lay it on,
- lay on,
- light cream,
- loblolly,
- margarine,
- mash,
- milk,
- molasses,
- mucilage,
- mucus,
- mush,
- nonfat dry milk,
- oil,
- oiliness,
- oleo,
- oleomargarine,
- overdo it,
- pap,
- paper pulp,
- paste,
- pillow,
- pith,
- plaster,
- play up to,
- plush,
- porridge,
- poultice,
- prime,
- pudding,
- puff,
- pulp,
- pulp lead,
- pulpwood,
- puree,
- putty,
- rag pulp,
- raw milk,
- rob,
- rubber,
- satin,
- sauce,
- semifluid,
- semiliquid,
- silk,
- size,
- skim milk,
- slap on,
- slather,
- smash,
- smear,
- smear on,
- smoothness,
- smugness,
- soap,
- soft soap,
- soft words,
- soft-soap,
- soften up,
- soup,
- sour cream,
- sponge,
- spread on,
- spread with,
- squash,
- starch,
- sticky mess,
- string along,
- stroke,
- suaveness,
- suavity,
- sulfate pulp,
- sulfite pulp,
- swansdown,
- sweet talk,
- sweet words,
- syrup,
- tar,
- thistledown,
- treacle,
- unctuousness,
- undercoat,
- velvet,
- wax,
- whey,
- whipping cream,
- white lead,
- wood pulp,
- wool,
- yogurt,
- zephyr
Words containing 'Butter'
- Buttered,
- Buttering,
- Butters,
- butter up,
- Bog butter,
- Bread and butter,
- Butter and eggs,
- Butter boat,
- Butter flower,
- Butter of tin,
- Butter of zinc,
- Butter print,
- Butter tooth,
- Butter tree,
- Butter trier,
- Butter wife,
- Butters, NC,
- Drawn butter,
- Lake Butter,
- Nutmeg butter,
- Peanut butter,
- Plasmon butter,
- Rock butter,
- To cream butter,
- Vegetable butter,
- Witches' butter,
- anchovy butter,
- apple butter,
- bercy butter,
- brown butter,
- butter bean,
- butter churn,
- butter cookie,
- butter daisy,
- butter dish,
- butter knife,
- butter stamp,
- butter woman,
- clarified butter,
- cocoa butter,
- colbert butter,
- garlic butter,
- lemon butter,
- lobster butter,
- meuniere butter,
- nut butter,
- onion butter,
- pimento butter,
- shrimp butter,
- snail butter,
- yak butter,
- Butter-fingered,
- Butter-scotch,
- Lake Butter, FL,
- bread and butter pickle,
- butter-and-eggs,
- butter-flower,
- butter-print,
- red butter pear,
- bread-and-butter issue,
- butter-bean plant