butter

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  1. noun A soft yellowish or whitish emulsion of butterfat, water, air, and sometimes salt, churned from milk or cream and processed for use in cooking and as a food.
  2. noun Any of various substances similar to butter, especially:
  3. noun A spread made from fruit, nuts, or other foods: apple butter.
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  • There was the fish, cooked in a pan over the fire, potatoes hot from the coals and slathered in Irish butter, and lots of fresh vegetables followed by strawberries in thick Irish cream. —  Celtic Riddle
  • Shea butter is also one of the main ingredients found in antiaging creams. —  Improving Your Health
  • Shea butter is a great emollient to have in your anti aging skin care treatment. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • If the buttercream appears curdled after all the butter has been added, don't worry. —  The Appleton Post-Crescent Latest Headlines
  • In fact, Shea butter is a valued for its pharmaceutical activity in countries where the tree grows. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
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  1. Middle English butere, from Old English, from Latin būtȳrum, from Greek boutūron : bous, cow; see gwou- in Indo-European roots + tūros, cheese; see teuə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English butter, buttere, butere, from Anglo-Saxon butere (in comp. buter-, buttor-) = OFries. butera, botera = Dutch boter = Low German botter = Old High German butrā, butere, Middle High German buter, German butter = French beurre = Italian burro, butiro, from Latin butyrum, from Greek βούτυρον, butter, apparently from βοῦς, cow, + τυρός, cheese, but perhaps an accommodation of some foreign word.
  2. from butter, n.
  3. from butt + -er.
  4. from butt, v. t., 2, + -er.
  5. Only in Middle English form bitter, from bit, bitte (see butt), + -er.
 

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