Index of English words, starting with "bu"

(1) - Butter (n.) One who, or that which, butts.
(2) - Butter (v. t.) To increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game.
(3) - Butter (v. t.) To cover or spread with butter.
(4) - Butter (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.
(5) - Butter (n.) An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning.

(1) - Butterfish (n.) A name given to several different fishes, in allusion to their slippery coating of mucus, as the Stromateus triacanthus of the Atlantic coast, the Epinephelus punctatus of the southern coast, the rock eel, and the kelpfish of New Zealand.

(1) - Butterfly (n.) A general name for the numerous species of diurnal Lepidoptera.

(1) - Butterine (n.) A substance prepared from animal fat with some other ingredients intermixed, as an imitation of butter.