Word Meanings - BUTTONHOLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The hole or loop in which a button is caught.

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• BUTTONHOLE
  The hole or loop in which a button is caught.
• BUTTONY
  Ornamented with a large number of buttons. "The buttony boy." Thackeray. "My coat so blue and buttony." W. S. Gilbert.
• CAUGHT
  f Catch.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• BUTTON
  1. A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass. 2. A catch, of various forms and materials, used to fasten together the different parts of dress, by being attached to one part, and passing through a slit, called a buttonhole, in the other; --
• BUTTONMOLD
  A disk of bone, wood, or other material, which is made into a button by covering it with cloth. Fossil buttonmolds, joints of encrinites. See Encrinite.
• BUTTONWEED
  The name of several plants of the genera Spermacoce and Diodia, of the Madder family.
• BUTTONBALL
  See BUTTONWOOD
• BUTTONWOOD
  The Platanus occidentalis, or American plane tree, a large tree, producing rough balls, from which it is named; -- called also buttonball tree, and, in some parts of the United States, sycamore. The California buttonwood is P. racemosa.
• BUTTONBUSH
  A shrub growing by the waterside; - - so called from its globular head of flowers. See Capitulum.
• BUTTONS
  A boy servant, or page, -- in allusion to the buttons on his livry. Dickens.
• UPCAUGHT
  Seized or caught up. " She bears upcaught a mariner away." Cowper.
• 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.
• PUSH BUTTON
  A simple device, resembling a button in form, so arranged that pushing it closes an electric circuit, as of an electric bell.
• AMBOYNA BUTTON
  A chronic contagious affection of the skin, prevalent in the tropics.
• BISKARA BOIL; BISKARA BUTTON
  See BOIL
• UNBUTTON
  To loose the buttons of; to unfasten.
• BACHELOR'S BUTTON
  , A plant with flowers shaped like buttons; especially, several species of Ranunculus, and the cornflower and globe amaranth . Note: Bachelor's buttons, a name given to several flowers "from their similitude to the jagged cloathe buttons,