Word Meanings - BUTTERMILK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The milk that remains after the butter is separated from the cream.

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• CREAM-FACED
  White or pale, as the effect of fear, or as the natural complexion. Thou cream-faced loon. Shak.
• SEPARATISM
  The character or act of a separatist; disposition to withdraw from a church; the practice of so withdrawing.
• AFTERCAST
  A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.
• AFTER
  To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts
• AFTERPAINS
  The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
• BUTTER-SCOTCH
  A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter. Dickens.
• SEPARATIVE
  Causing, or being to cause, separation. "Separative virtue of extreme cold." Boyle.
• CREAM-SLICE
  A wooden knife with a long thin blade, used in handling cream or ice cream.
• CREAMINESS
  The quality of being creamy.
• AFTERSHAFT
  The hypoptilum.
• BUTTERMAN
  A man who makes or sells butter.
• AFTERPIECE
  The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
• SEPARATICAL
  Of or pertaining to separatism in religion; schismatical. Dr. T. Dwight.
• 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
• SEPARATORY
  Separative. Cheyne.
• 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
• BUTTERMILK
  The milk that remains after the butter is separated from the cream.
• AFTER DAMP
  An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid.
• CREAM
  1. The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the surface. It is the part of milk from which butter is obtained. 2. The part of any liquor that rises, and collects on the surface.
• AFTER-NOTE
  One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from the preceding note.
• INSEPARATE
  Not separate; together; united. Shak.
• CRAFTER
  a creator of great skill in the manual arts. Syn. -- craftsman.
• TROILUS BUTTERFLY
  A large American butterfly . It is black, with yellow marginal spots on the front wings, and blue on the rear.
• THEREAFTER
  1. After that; afterward. 2. According to that; accordingly. I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison,