Word Meanings - CHURNING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of one who churns. 2. The quantity of butter made at one operation.

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• BUTTER-SCOTCH
  A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter. Dickens.
• BUTTERMAN
  A man who makes or sells butter.
• 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
• 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.
• QUANTITY
  1. The attribute of being so much, and not more or less; the property of being measurable, or capable of increase and decrease, multiplication and division; greatness; and more concretely, that which answers the question "How much"; measure in
• BUTTER-FINGERED
  Apt to let things fall, or to let them slip away; slippery; careless.
• 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.
• OPERATION
  Something to be done; some transformation to be made upon quantities, the transformation being indicated either by rules or symbols. (more info) 1. The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
• 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.
• BUTTERY
  Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter.
• BUTTERNUT
  An American tree of the Walnut family, and its edible fruit; -- so called from the oil contained in the latter. Sometimes called oil nut and white walnut.
• BUTTERWEIGHT
  Over weight. Swift. Note: Formerly it was a custom to give 18 ounces of butter for a pound.
• BUTTERIS
  A steel cutting instrument, with a long bent shank set in a handle which rests against the shoulder of the operator. It is operated by a thrust movement, and used in paring the hoofs of horses.
• BUTTERWEED
  An annual composite plant of the Mississippi valley (Senecio lobatus).
• BUTTERBUR
  A broad-leaved plant of the Composite family, said to have been used in England for wrapping up pats of butter.
• IMPROPERATION
  The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne
• TROILUS BUTTERFLY
  A large American butterfly . It is black, with yellow marginal spots on the front wings, and blue on the rear.
• DISQUANTITY
  To diminish the quantity of; to lessen. Shak.