Word Meanings - ABUTTAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The butting or boundary of land, particularly at the end; a headland. Spelman.

Related words: (words related to ABUTTAL)

• BUTTONHOLE
  The hole or loop in which a button is caught.
• HEADLAND
  1. A cape; a promontory; a point of land projecting into the sea or other expanse of water. "Sow the headland with wheat." Shak. 2. A ridge or strip of unplowed at the ends of furrows, or near a fence. Tusser.
• BUTTER-SCOTCH
  A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter. Dickens.
• BUTTONY
  Ornamented with a large number of buttons. "The buttony boy." Thackeray. "My coat so blue and buttony." W. S. Gilbert.
• BUTTWELD
  To unite by a butt weld.
• BUTTERMAN
  A man who makes or sells butter.
• BUTT WELD
  See BUTT
• BUTTERFLY
  A general name for the numerous species of diurnal Lepidoptera. Note: Asclepias butterfly. See under Asclepias. -- Butterfly fish , the ocellated blenny of Europe. See Blenny. The term is also applied to the flying gurnard. -- Butterfly shell
• BUTTERWORT
  A genus of low herbs having simple leaves which secrete from their glandular upper surface a viscid fluid, to which insects adhere, after which the margin infolds and the insects are digested by the plant. The species are found mostly in the North
• PARTICULARLY
  1. In a particular manner; expressly; with a specific reference or interest; in particular; distinctly. 2. In an especial manner; in a high degree; as, a particularly fortunate man; a particularly bad failure. The exact propriety of Virgil
• BUTTERMILK
  The milk that remains after the butter is separated from the cream.
• BUTTER
  1. An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning. 2. Any substance resembling butter in degree of consistence, or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the chloridess, as butter of antimony, sesquichloride
• BUTTERBUMP
  The European bittern. Johnson.
• BUTTER-FINGERED
  Apt to let things fall, or to let them slip away; slippery; careless.
• BUTTY
  One who mines by contract, at so much per ton of coal or ore.
• BUTTERINE
  A substance prepared from animal fat with some other ingredients intermixed, as an imitation of butter. The manufacturers ship large quantities of oleomargarine to England, Holland, and other countries, to be manufactured into butter, which is sold
• BUTTERBIRD
  The rice bunting or bobolink; -- so called in the island of Jamaica.
• BUTTERFISH
  A name given to several different fishes, in allusion to their slippery coating of mucus, as the Stromateus triacanthus of the Atlantic coast, the Epinephelus punctatus of the southern coast, the rock eel, and the kelpfish of New Zealand.
• BUTTERCUP
  A plant of the genus Ranunculus, or crowfoot, particularly R. bulbosus, with bright yellow flowers; -- called also butterflower, golden cup, and kingcup. It is the cuckoobud of Shakespeare.
• ABUTTAL
  The butting or boundary of land, particularly at the end; a headland. Spelman.
• CROSS-BUTTOCK
  A throw in which the wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, places his left leg across both legs of his opponent, and pulls him forward over his hip; hence, an unexpected defeat or repulse.
• TROILUS BUTTERFLY
  A large American butterfly . It is black, with yellow marginal spots on the front wings, and blue on the rear.
• FULL-BUTT
  With direct and violentop position; with sudden collision. L'Estrange.
• ALEPPO BOIL; ALEPPO BUTTON; ALEPPO EVIL
  A chronic skin affection terminating in an ulcer, most commonly of the face. It is endemic along the Mediterranean, and is probably due to a specific bacillus. Called also Aleppo ulcer, Biskara boil, Delhi boil, Oriental sore, etc.
• REBUTTABLE
  Capable of being rebutted.