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 An obsolete form of bittern. Compare butterbump.
• 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.
• 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.
• noun The fatty portion of milk.
• noun In old chemistry, a term applied to certain anhydrous metallic chlorids of buttery consistence and fusibility.

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 Someone who butts; someone who butts in
• 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.

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