butter : Idioms & Phrases

• noun butter blended with mashed anchovies
  

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• noun thick dark spicy puree of apples
  

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• a sauce made of apples stewed down in cider. Bartlett.

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• noun butter creamed with white wine and shallots and parsley
  Bercy.
  

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• a hydrocarbon of butterlike consistence found in the peat bogs of Ireland.

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• noun the financial means whereby one lives
  living; support; livelihood; sustenance; keep.
  
  • each child was expected to pay for their keep
  • he applied to the state for support
  • he could no longer earn his own livelihood

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• (fig.), means of living.

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• noun thinly sliced sweet pickles
  

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• noun an issue whose settlement will affect financial resources
  pocketbook issue.
  

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• noun clarified butter browned slowly and seasoned with vinegar or lemon juice and capers
  beurre noisette.
  

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• (Bot.), a name given to several plants having flowers of two shades of yellow, as Narcissus incomparabilis, and in the United States to the toadflax (Linaria vulgaris).

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• noun bush bean plant cultivated especially in southern United States having small flat edible seeds
  butter bean; lima bean; sieva bean; Phaseolus lunatus.
  
• noun small flat green bean similar to lima beans
  civet bean; sieva bean; butterbean.
  

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• a small vessel for holding melted butter at table.

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• noun a vessel in which cream is agitated to separate butterfat from buttermilk
  churn.
  

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• noun cookie containing much butter
  

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• noun coarse greyish-green annual yellow-flowered herb; southwestern United States to Mexico
  Ximenesia encelioides; golden crownbeard; Verbesina encelioides; cowpen daisy; golden crown beard.
  

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• noun a small dish (often with a cover) for holding butter at the table
  

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• the buttercup, a yellow flower.

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• noun a small knife with a dull blade; for cutting or spreading butter
  

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• a piece of carved wood used to mark pats of butter; called also butter stamp. Locke.

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• either of the two middle incisors of the upper jaw.

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• (Bot.), a tree of the genus Bassia, the seeds of which yield a substance closely resembling butter. The butter tree of India is the B. butyracea; that of Africa is the Shea tree (B. Parkii). See Shea tree.

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• a tool used in sampling butter.

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• verb flatter with the intention of getting something
  brown-nose.
  

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• a woman who makes or sells butter; called also butter woman. Obs. or Archaic

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• noun common European perennial having showy yellow and orange flowers; a naturalized weed in North America
  Linaria vulgaris; wild snapdragon; devil's flax; toadflax.
  

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• noun bush bean plant cultivated especially in southern United States having small flat edible seeds
  butter bean; lima bean; sieva bean; Phaseolus lunatus.
  

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But"ter-fin`gered adjective

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1. Apt to let things fall, or to let them slip away; slippery; careless.

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• noun any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus
  kingcup; buttercup; butterflower; goldcup; crowfoot.
  

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• noun tall annual herb or subshrub of tropical Asia having velvety leaves and yellow flowers and yielding a strong fiber; naturalized in southeastern Europe and United States
  Abutilon theophrasti; velvetleaf; China jute; velvet-leaf; velvetweed; Indian mallow.
  

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But"ter-scotch` noun

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1. A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter. Colloq. Dickens.

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• noun butter made clear by heating and removing the sediment of milk solids
  clarified butter.
  

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• noun a yellow-white fat from cocoa beans
  
• noun the vegetable fat from the cacao that is extracted from chocolate liquor; the basis for white chocolate
  

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• noun butter creamed with parsley and tarragon and beef extract
  Colbert.
  

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• noun butter made clear by heating and removing the sediment of milk solids
  clarified butter.
  

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• butter melter and prepared to be used as a sort of gravy.

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• noun butter seasoned with mashed garlic
  

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• noun clarified butter browned slowly and seasoned with lemon juice and parsley
  lemon butter.
  

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• noun butter blended with chopped lobster or seasoned with essence from lobster shells
  

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• noun clarified butter browned slowly and seasoned with lemon juice and parsley
  lemon butter.
  

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• noun ground nuts blended with a little butter
  

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• a solid oil extracted from the nutmeg by expression.

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• noun butter blended with minced onion
  

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• noun a spread made from ground peanuts
  

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• noun butter blended with mashed pimento
  

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• (Min.), native alum mixed with clay and oxide of iron, usually in soft masses of a yellowish white color, occuring in cavities and fissures in argillaceous slate.

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• noun butter blended with chopped shrimp or seasoned with essence from shrimp shells
  

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• noun for preparing snails: butter seasoned with shallots and garlic and parsley
  

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• (Cooking), to rub, stir, or beat, butter till it is of a light creamy consistency.

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• (Bot.), a name of several kinds of concrete vegetable oil; as that produced by the Indian butter tree, the African shea tree, and the Pentadesma butyracea, a tree of the order Guttiferæ, also African. Still another kind is pressed from the seeds of cocoa (Theobroma).

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• noun a yellow jelly fungus
  Tremella lutescens.
  

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• (Bot.), a name of several gelatinous cryptogamous plants, as Nostoc commune, and Exidia glandulosa. See Nostoc.

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• noun butter made from yaks' milk
  

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