• | Except with; unless with; without. |
• | Except; besides; save. |
• | Excepting or excluding the fact that; save that;
were it not that; unless; -- elliptical, for but that. |
• | Otherwise than that; that not; -- commonly, after a
negative, with that. |
• | Only; solely; merely. |
• | On the contrary; on the other hand; only; yet;
still; however; nevertheless; more; further; -- as connective of
sentences or clauses of a sentence, in a sense more or less exceptive
or adversative; as, the House of Representatives passed the bill, but
the Senate dissented; our wants are many, but quite of another kind. |
• | The outer apartment or kitchen of a
two-roomed house; -- opposed to ben, the inner room. |
• | A limit; a boundary. |
• | The end; esp. the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in
distinction from the sharp, end. See 1st Butt. |
• | See Butt, v., and Abut, v. |
• | A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end. |
• | The thicker end of anything. See But. |
• | A mark to be shot at; a target. |
• | A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed;
as, the butt of the company. |
• | A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head of an
animal; as, the butt of a ram. |
• | A thrust in fencing. |
• | A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field. |
• | A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely
together without scarfing or chamfering; -- also called butt joint. |
• | The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which
the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib. |
• | The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a
hose. |
• | The joint where two planks in a strake meet. |
• | A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc.; -- so named
because fastened on the edge of the door, which butts against the
casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt
hinge. |
• | The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for
soles of boots, harness, trunks. |
• | The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets
in rifle practice. |