Word Meanings - BUTT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut. And Barnsdale there doth butt on Don's well-watered ground. Drayton. 2. To thrust the head forward; to strike by thrusting the head forward, as an ox or a

Additional info about word: BUTT

1. To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut. And Barnsdale there doth butt on Don's well-watered ground. Drayton. 2. To thrust the head forward; to strike by thrusting the head forward, as an ox or a ram. A snow-white steer before thine altar led, Butts with his threatening brows. Dryden.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BUTT)

• Push
• Press
• drive
• impel
• shove
• press against
• propel
• butt
• thrust
• urge
• expedite
• accelerate
• reduce

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of BUTT)

• Relax
• inhibit
• persuade
• entice
• allure
• solicit
• touch
• skim
• graze
• free
• liberate
• ease
• avoid
• relieve

Related words: (words related to BUTT)

• INHIBITORY
  Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center. I would not have you consider these criticisms as inhibitory. Lamb.
• SHOVELARD
  Shoveler.
• PERSUADER
  One who, or that which, persuades or influences. "Powerful persuaders." Milton.
• RELAXANT
  A medicine that relaxes; a laxative.
• PERSUADED
  Prevailed upon; influenced by argument or entreaty; convinced. -- Per*suad"ed*ly, adv. -- Per*suad"ed*ness, n.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• THRUSTING
  The white whey, or that which is last pressed out of the curd press, as for pressing curd in making cheese. (more info) 1. The act of pushing with force. The act of squeezing curd with the hand, to expel the whey. pl.
• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• PROPELLER
  1. One who, or that which, propels. 2. A contrivance for propelling a steam vessel, usually consisting of a screw placed in the stern under water, and made to revolve by an engine; a propeller wheel. 3. A steamboat thus propelled; a screw steamer.
• DRIVEL
  To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love. Shak. Dryden. (more info) 1. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard. 2. Etym:
• DRIVE
  To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. Tomlinson. 7. To pass away; -- said of time. Chaucer. Note: Drive, in all its senses, implies forcible or violent action. It is the reverse of to lead. To drive a body is to move it by
• SHOVELNOSE
  The common sand shark. See under Snad. A small California shark , which is taken for its oil. A Pacific Ocean shark . A ganoid fish of the Sturgeon family (Scaphirhynchus platyrhynchus) of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers; -- called also white
• REDUCE
  To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from
• RELAXATIVE
  Having the quality of relaxing; laxative. -- n.
• SOLICITUDE
  The state of being solicitous; uneasiness of mind occasioned by fear of evil or desire good; anxiety. The many cares and great labors of worldly men, their solicitude and outward shows. Sir W. Raleigh. The mother looked at her with fond solicitude.
• PRESSIROSTRAL
  Of or pertaining to the pressirosters.
• INHIBITION
  A stopping or checking of an already present action; a restraining of the function of an organ, or an agent, as a digestive fluid or ferment, etc.; as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes,
• PRESSIVE
  Pressing; urgent; also, oppressive; as, pressive taxation. Bp. Hall.
• SHOVEL-NOSED
  Having a broad, flat nose; as, the shovel-nosed duck, or shoveler.
• PRESSGANG
  See PRESS
• HOTPRESSED
  Pressed while heat is applied. See Hotpress, v. t.
• APPRENTICESHIP
  1. The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement. 2. The time an apprentice is serving (sometimes seven years, as from the age of fourteen to twenty-one).
• HOTPRESS
  To apply to, in conjunction with mechanical pressure, for the purpose of giving a smooth and glosay surface, or to express oil, etc.; as, to hotpress paper, linen, etc.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• INCOMPRESSIBLE
  Not compressible; incapable of being reduced by force or pressure into a smaller compass or volume; resisting compression; as, many liquids and solids appear to be almost incompressible. -- In`com*press"i*ble*ness, n.
• INSUPPRESSIBLE
  That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv.
• REPRESSIBLE
  Capable of being repressed.