Vocabulary : Buttonwood to Butylene

Buttonwood : 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 : Ornamented with a large number of buttons.
Buttress : A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry. ;; Anything which supports or strengthens. ;; To support with a buttress; to prop; to brace firmly.
Buttressed : of Buttress
Buttressing : of Buttress

Buttweld : To unite by a butt weld.
Butty : One who mines by contract, at so much per ton of coal or ore.
Butyl : A compound radical, regarded as butane, less one atom of hydrogen.
Butylamine : A colorless liquid base, C4H9NH2, of which there are four isomeric varieties.
Butylene : Any one of three metameric hydrocarbons, C4H8, of the ethylene series. They are gaseous or easily liquefiable.

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