Bachelor''s Button :: Bachelor's button () A plant with flowers shaped like buttons; especially, several species of Ranunculus, and the cornflower (Centaures cyanus) and globe amaranth (Gomphrena)..

Buttock :: Buttock (n.) The part at the back of the hip, which, in man, forms one of the rounded protuberances on which he sits; the rump..

Buttock :: Buttock (n.) The convexity of a ship behind, under the stern..

Button :: Button (n.) A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass..

Button :: Button (n.) 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; -- used also for ornament..

Button :: Button (n.) A bud; a germ of a plant.

Button :: Button (n.) A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door..

Button :: Button (n.) A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion..

Button :: Button (n.) To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; -- often followed by up.

Button :: Button (n.) To dress or clothe.

Button :: Button (v. i.) To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button..

Buttonball :: Buttonball (n.) See Buttonwood.

Buttonbush :: Buttonbush (n.) A shrub (Cephalanthus occidentalis) growing by the waterside; -- so called from its globular head of flowers. See Capitulum.

Buttoned :: Buttoned (imp. & p. p.) of Butto.

Buttonhole :: Buttonhole (n.) The hole or loop in which a button is caught.

Buttonhole :: Buttonhole (v. t.) To hold at the button or buttonhole; to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; as, he buttonholed me a quarter of an hour..

Buttoning :: Buttoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Butto.

Buttonmold :: Buttonmold (n.) A disk of bone, wood, or other material, which is made into a button by covering it with cloth..

Buttons :: Buttons (n.) A boy servant, or page, -- in allusion to the buttons on his livery..

Buttonweed :: Buttonweed (n.) The name of several plants of the genera Spermacoce and Diodia, of the Madder family..

Buttonwood :: Buttonwood (n.) 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..

Buttony :: Buttony (a.) Ornamented with a large number of buttons.

Unbutton :: Unbutton (v. t.) To loose the buttons of; to unfasten.

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