Definition
• | An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning. |
• | 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. |
• | To cover or spread with butter. |
• | To increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game. |
• | One who, or that which, butts. |