Lexic.us

Definition of Butter

1. Noun. An edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use.

2. Verb. Spread butter on. "Butter bread"

3. Noun. A fighter who strikes the opponent with his head.

Definition of Butter

1. n. An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning.

2. v. t. To cover or spread with butter.

3. n. One who, or that which, butts.

Definition of Butter

1. Noun. A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk). ¹

2. Noun. (obsolete) (chemistry) Any specific soft substance ¹

3. Noun. 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''). ¹

4. Verb. (transitive) To spread butter on. ¹

5. Verb. 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. ¹

6. Noun. Someone who butts; someone who butts in ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Butter

1. to spread with butter (a milk product) [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Butter

1. 1. An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning. 2. Any substance resembling butter in degree of consistence, or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the chloridess, 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. Butter and eggs, 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. Butter trier, a tool used in sampling butter. Butter wife, a woman who makes or sells butter. Synonym: butter woman. Origin: OE. Botere, butter, AS. Butere, fr. L. Butyrum, Gr.; either fr. Ox, cow + cheese; or, perhaps, of Scythian origin. Cf. Cow. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Literary usage of Butter

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1900)
"<4r)ROCESS" butter commonly called "renovated" butter 1 is a product prepared about as follows: Unsalable dairy or creamery butter, bought at a low price in ..."

2. Methods of Practical Hygiene by Karl Bernhard Lehmann (1893)
"rated with the butter—determination of volatile fatty acids and of the ... Whether the butter has undergone no additions of alien colouring-matters or ..."

3. Der Infantilismus, die Asthenie und deren Beziehungen zum Nervensystem: A by Paul Mathes, E. H. (Edward Holyoke) Farrington, F. W. (Fritz Wilhelm) Woll (1911)
"butter-fat test and yield of butter. The Bab- cock test shows the amount of pure ... The butter obtained by churning cream or milk contains, in addition to ..."

4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"... as follows: of butter or cheese, not the legitimate product of tbe dairy, and not made exclusively of milk or cream, but into which oil, lard, or fat, ..."

5. The Analyst (1877)
"On Saturday, September 23, he visited defendant's stall in Barrow market, and observed a quantity of butter thereon lying in lumps. ..."

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