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• ButDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (v. t.) A mark to be shot at; a target.
2. (adv. & conj.) Only; solely; merely.
3. (v. t.) A thrust in fencing.
4. (v. t.) The joint where two planks in a strake meet.
5. (v. t.) The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice.
6. (n.) The end; esp. the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in distinction from the sharp, end. See 1st Butt.
7. (prep., adv. & conj.) The outer apartment or kitchen of a two-roomed house; -- opposed to ben, the inner room.
8. (v. t.) A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
9. (v. t.) A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field.
10. (adv. & conj.) On the contrary; on the other hand; only; yet; still; however; nevertheless; more; further; -- as connective of sentences or clauses of a sentence, in a sense more or less exceptive or adversative; as, the House of Representatives passed the bill, but the Senate dissented; our wants are many, but quite of another kind.
11. (v. t.) A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc.; -- so named because fastened on the edge of the door, which butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt hinge.
12. (v. i.) See Butt, v., and Abut, v.
13. (v. t.) The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib.
14. (v. t.) The thicker end of anything. See But.
15. (adv. & conj.) Otherwise than that; that not; -- commonly, after a negative, with that.
16. (v. t.) A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed; as, the butt of the company.
17. (n.) A limit; a boundary.
18. (adv. & conj.) Except with; unless with; without.
19. (v. t.) The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.
20. (adv. & conj.) Except; besides; save.
21. (v. t.) The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose.
22. (v. t.) A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head of an animal; as, the butt of a ram.
23. (v. t.) A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering; -- also called butt joint.
24. (adv. & conj.) Excepting or excluding the fact that; save that; were it not that; unless; -- elliptical, for but that.

• ButaneDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) An inflammable gaseous hydrocarbon, C4H10, of the marsh gas, or paraffin, series.

• ButcheryDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) The business of a butcher.
2. (n.) Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter.
3. (n.) A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed.