butter

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• 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.
• noun Any of various substances similar to butter, especially.
• noun A spread made from fruit, nuts, or other foods.
• noun A vegetable fat having a nearly solid consistency at ordinary temperatures.
• noun Flattery.
• transitive verb To put butter on or in.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The fatty portion of milk.
• noun In old chemistry, a term applied to certain anhydrous metallic chlorids of buttery consistence and fusibility.
• noun An obsolete form of bittern. Compare butterbump.
• noun One who has charge of a butt or fire-bucket. See butt, n., 1.
• noun A machine for sawing off the ends of boards, to square them and remove faulty parts.
• To smear with butter.
• To flatter grossly: as, he buttered him to his heart's content.
• In gambling slang, to stake the previous winnings, with addition, at every throw or every game.
• In cricket, to fail to make a simple and easy catch; to muff.
• noun One who or that which butts; an animal that butts.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning.
• noun 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.
• noun a small vessel for holding melted butter at table.
• noun the buttercup, a yellow flower.
• noun a piece of carved wood used to mark pats of butter; -- called also butter stamp.
• noun either of the two middle incisors of the upper jaw.
• noun (Bot.) a tree of the genus Bassia, the seeds of which yield a substance closely resembling butter. The butter tree of India is the Bassia butyracea; that of Africa is the Shea tree (Bassia Parkii). See Shea tree.
• noun a tool used in sampling butter.
• noun [Obs. or Archaic] a woman who makes or sells butter; -- called also butter woman.
• noun One who, or that which, butts.
• transitive verb To cover or spread with butter.
• transitive verb Cant To increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun uncountable A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).
• noun countable, obsolete, chemistry Any specific soft substance.
• noun uncountable 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).
• verb transitive To spread butter on.
• 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.
• noun Someone who butts; someone who butts in

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun an edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use
• noun a fighter who strikes the opponent with his head
• verb spread butter on