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- Button - n. - A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
- 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 - n. - A bud; a germ of a plant.
- 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 - n. - A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
- Button - n. - To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; -- often followed by up.
- Button - n. - To dress or clothe.
- Button - v. i. - To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button.
- Buttonball - n. - See Buttonwood.
- Buttonbush - n. - A shrub (Cephalanthus occidentalis) growing by the waterside; -- so called from its globular head of flowers. See Capitulum.
- Buttoned - imp. & p. p. - of Button
- Buttonhole - n. - The hole or loop in which a button is caught.
- 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 - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Button
- Buttonmold - n. - A disk of bone, wood, or other material, which is made into a button by covering it with cloth.
- Buttons - n. - A boy servant, or page, -- in allusion to the buttons on his livery.
- Buttonweed - n. - The name of several plants of the genera Spermacoce and Diodia, of the Madder family.
- 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 - a. - Ornamented with a large number of buttons.
- Button - n. - To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; -- often followed by up.
- 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.
- Quartation - n. - The act, process, or result (in the process of parting) of alloying a button of nearly pure gold with enough silver to reduce the fineness so as to allow acids to attack and remove all metals except the gold; -- called also inquartation. Compare Parting.
- Button - v. i. - To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button.
- Foil - n. - A blunt weapon used in fencing, resembling a smallsword in the main, but usually lighter and having a button at the point.
- Buttonmold - n. - A disk of bone, wood, or other material, which is made into a button by covering it with cloth.
- Prill - n. - The button of metal from an assay.
- 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.
- Toggle - n. - A wooden pin tapering toward both ends with a groove around its middle, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope to be secured to any other loop or bight or ring; a kind of button or frog capable of being readily engaged and disengaged for temporary purposes.
- Stud - n. - An ornamental button of various forms, worn in a shirt front, collar, wristband, or the like, not sewed in place, but inserted through a buttonhole or eyelet, and transferable.
- Gauge - n. - Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the dimensions or forms of things; a templet or template; as, a button maker's gauge.
- Buttonhole - n. - The hole or loop in which a button is caught.
- Frog - n. - An oblong cloak button, covered with netted thread, and fastening into a loop instead of a button hole.
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- H3730 כַּפְתֹּר - 3730 כַּפְתֹּר - כַּפְתֹּר - - kaphtôr - kaf-tore' - or (Amos 9:1) כַּפְתּוֹר; probably from an unused root meaning to encircle; a chaplet; but used only in an architectonic sense, i.e. the capital of acolumn, or a wreath-like button or disk on the candelabrum; knop, (upper) lintel. - Noun Masculine - heb