Helen Fenton

Butment: Definition and part of speech

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Butment

  1. n. The mass of stone or solid work at the end of a bridge, by which the extreme arches are sustained, or by which the end of a bridge without arches is supported.
  2. n. A buttress of an arch; the supporter, or that part which joins it to the upright pier.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Butt: Definition and part of speech

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Butt

  1. v. t. Alt. of But
  2. v. i. To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
  3. v. i. To thrust the head forward; to strike by thrusting the head forward, as an ox or a ram. [See Butt, n.]
  4. v. t. To strike by thrusting the head against; to strike with the head.
  5. n. A large cask or vessel for wine or beer. It contains two hogsheads.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Butte: Definition and part of speech

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Butte

  1. n. A detached low mountain, or high rising abruptly from the general level of the surrounding plain; — applied to peculiar elevations in the Rocky Mountain region.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Butter: Definition and part of speech

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Butter

  1. 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.
  2. n. An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning.
  3. v. t. To increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.