Vocabulary : Buttermilk to Butting joint

Buttermilk : The milk that remains after the butter is separated from the cream.
Butternut : An American tree (Juglans cinerea) of the Walnut family, and its edible fruit; -- so called from the oil contained in the latter. Sometimes called oil nut and white walnut. ;; The nut of the Caryocar butyrosum and C. nuciferum, of S. America; -- called also Souari nut.
Butter-scotch : A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter.
Butterweed : An annual composite plant of the Mississippi valley (Senecio lobatus).
Butterweight : Over weight.

Butterwort : A genus of low herbs (Pinguicula) 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 Temperate zone.
Buttery : Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter. ;; An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other provisions are kept. ;; A room in some English colleges where liquors, fruit, and refreshments are kept for sale to the students. ;; A cellar in which butts of wine are kept.
But-thorn : The common European starfish (Asterias rubens).
Butting : of But ;; of Butt ;; An abuttal; a boundary.
Butting joint : A joint between two pieces of timber or wood, at the end of one or both, and either at right angles or oblique to the grain, as the joints which the struts and braces form with the truss posts; -- sometimes called abutting joint.

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