Butter (n.) An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning. |
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 |
Butter (v. t.) To cover or spread with butter. |
Butter (v. t.) To increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game. |
Butter (n.) One who, or that which, butts. |
Butter-fingered (a.) Apt to let things fall, or to let them slip away |
Butter-scotch (n.) A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter. |
Coco palm () See Cocoa. |
Cocoa palm () A palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera). It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty feet. The trunk is without branches, and has a tuft of leaves at the top, each being fifteen or twenty feet in length, and at the base of these the nuts hang in clusters |
Doom palm () A species of palm tree (Hyphaene Thebaica), highly valued for the fibrous pulp of its fruit, which has the flavor of gingerbread, and is largely eaten in Egypt and Abyssinia. |
Doum palm () See Doom palm. |
Fan palm () Any palm tree having fan-shaped or radiate leaves |
Grugru palm () A West Indian name for several kinds of palm. See Macaw tree, under Macaw. |
Ita palm () A magnificent species of palm (Mauritia flexuosa), growing near the Orinoco. The natives eat its fruit and buds, drink its sap, and make thread and cord from its fiber. |
Jagua palm () A great Brazilian palm (Maximiliana regia), having immense spathes which are used for baskets and tubs. |
Jupati palm () A great Brazilian palm tree (Raphia taedigera), used by the natives for many purposes. |
Palm (n.) The inner and somewhat concave part of the hand between the bases of the fingers and the wrist. |
Palm (n.) A lineal measure equal either to the breadth of the hand or to its length from the wrist to the ends of the fingers |
Palm (n.) A metallic disk, attached to a strap, and worn the palm of the hand, -- used to push the needle through the canvas, in sewing sails, etc. |
Palm (n.) The broad flattened part of an antler, as of a full-grown fallow deer |
Palm (n.) The flat inner face of an anchor fluke. |
Palm (n.) Any endogenous tree of the order Palmae or Palmaceae |
Palm (n.) A branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing. |
Palm (n.) Any symbol or token of superiority, success, or triumph |
Palm (v. t.) To handle. |
Palm (v. t.) To manipulate with, or conceal in, the palm of the hand |
Palm (v. t.) To impose by fraud, as by sleight of hand |
Palm Sunday () The Sunday next before Easter |