Definition of button

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

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Sherryvallies :: Sherryvallies (n. pl.) Trousers or overalls of thick cloth or leather, buttoned on the outside of each leg, and generally worn to protect other trousers when riding on horseback..
Buttonweed :: Buttonweed (n.) The name of several plants of the genera Spermacoce and Diodia, of the Madder family..
Hemacite :: Hemacite (n.) A composition made from blood, mixed with mineral or vegetable substances, used for making buttons, door knobs, etc..
Monogram :: Monogram (n.) A character or cipher composed of two or more letters interwoven or combined so as to represent a name, or a part of it (usually the initials). Monograms are often used on seals, ornamental pins, rings, buttons, and by painters, engravers, etc., to distinguish their works..
Scorifier :: Scorifier (n.) One who, or that which, scorifies; specifically, a small flat bowl-shaped cup used in the first heating in assaying, to remove the earth and gangue, and to concentrate the gold and silver in a lead button..
Knap :: Knap (n.) A protuberance; a swelling; a knob; a button; hence, rising ground; a summit. See Knob, and Knop..
Shank :: Shank (v.) A loop forming an eye to a button.
Button :: Button (n.) A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion..
Buttonhole :: Buttonhole (n.) The hole or loop in which a button is caught.
Muffle :: Muffle (v. t.) An earthenware compartment or oven, often shaped like a half cylinder, used in furnaces to protect objects heated from the direct action of the fire, as in scorification of ores, cupellation of ore buttons, etc..
Button :: Button (n.) To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; -- often followed by up.
Regulus :: Regulus (n.) The button, globule, or mass of metal, in a more or less impure state, which forms in the bottom of the crucible in smelting and reduction of ores..
Button :: Button (n.) To dress or clothe.
Buttoning :: Buttoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Butto.
Bottone :: Bottone (a.) Having a bud or button, or a kind of trefoil, at the end; furnished with knobs or buttons..
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..
Soutane :: Soutane (n.) A close garnment with straight sleeves, and skirts reaching to the ankles, and buttoned in front from top to bottom; especially, the black garment of this shape worn by the clergy in France and Italy as their daily dress; a cassock..
Joseph :: "Joseph (n.) An outer garment worn in the 18th century; esp., a woman's riding habit, buttoned down the front..
Tasimer :: Tasimer (n.) An instrument for detecting or measuring minute extension or movements of solid bodies. It consists essentially of a small rod, disk, or button of carbon, forming part of an electrical circuit, the resistance of which, being varied by the changes of pressure produced by the movements of the object to be measured, causes variations in the strength of the current, which variations are indicated by a sensitive galvanometer. It is also used for measuring minute changes of temperature..
Buttoned :: Buttoned (imp. & p. p.) of Butto.
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