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Webster 1913 Edition
Butt
Butt
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Butted
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Butting
.] 1.
To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
[Written also
but
.] 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. [See ]
Butt
, Noun.
A snow-white steer before thine altar led,
Butts
with his threatening brows. Dryden.
Butt
,Verb.
T.
To strike by thrusting the head against; to strike with the head.
Two harmless lambs are
butting
one the other. Sir H. Wotton.
Butt
,Noun.
A large cask or vessel for wine or beer. It contains two hogsheads.
☞ A wine butt contains 126 wine gallons (= 105 imperial gallons, nearly); a beer butt 108 ale gallons (= about 110 imperial gallons).
Butt
,Noun.
(Zool.)
The common English flounder.
Webster 1828 Edition
Butt
BUTT
,Noun.
1.
The point to which a purpose or effort is directed.2.
The object of aim; the thing against which an attack is directed. Hence,3.
The person at whom ridicule,jests or contempt are directed; as the butt of ridicule.4.
A push or thrust given by the head of an animal, as the butt of a ram; also, a thrust in fencing.5.
A cask whose contents are 126 gallons of wine, or two hogsheads; called also a pipe. A butt of beer is 108 gallons, and from 1500 to 2200 weight of currants is a butt.6.
The end of a plank in a ship's side or bottom.7.
A particular kind of hinge for doors, &c.BUTT
,Verb.
I.