Definition of but

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But (adv. & conj.) Except with; unless with; without.

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Unalist :: Unalist (n.) An ecclesiastical who holds but one benefice; -- distinguished from pluralist.
Imputation :: Imputation () Charge or attribution of evil; censure; reproach; insinuation.
Single :: Single (n.) A game with but one player on each side; -- usually in the plural.
Rebutted :: Rebutted (imp. & p. p.) of Rebu.
Maikel :: Maikel (n.) A South American carnivore of the genus Conepatus, allied to the skunk, but larger, and having a longer snout. The tail is not bushy..
Faculty :: Faculty (n.) Power; prerogative or attribute of office.
Proteles :: Proteles (n.) A South Africa genus of Carnivora, allied to the hyenas, but smaller and having weaker jaws and teeth. It includes the aard-wolf..
Unbutton :: Unbutton (v. t.) To loose the buttons of; to unfasten.
Stock :: Stock (n.) Money or capital which an individual or a firm employs in business; fund; in the United States, the capital of a bank or other company, in the form of transferable shares, each of a certain amount; money funded in government securities, called also the public funds; in the plural, property consisting of shares in joint-stock companies, or in the obligations of a government for its funded debt; -- so in the United States, but in England the latter only are called stocks, and the former
Searcher :: Searcher (n.) An implement for sampling butter; a butter trier.
Attribute :: Attribute (n.) A conventional symbol of office, character, or identity, added to any particular figure; as, a club is the attribute of Hercules..
Buttoned :: Buttoned (imp. & p. p.) of Butto.
Catachresis :: Catachresis (n.) A figure by which one word is wrongly put for another, or by which a word is wrested from its true signification; as, To take arms against a sea of troubles. Shak. Her voice was but the shadow of a sound. Young..
Terpene :: Terpene (n.) Any one of a series of isomeric hydrocarbons of pleasant aromatic odor, occurring especially in coniferous plants and represented by oil of turpentine, but including also certain hydrocarbons found in some essential oils..
Shorten :: Shorten (a.) To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, pot liquor, or the like..
Scup :: Scup (n.) A marine sparoid food fish (Stenotomus chrysops, or S. argyrops), common on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It appears bright silvery when swimming in the daytime, but shows broad blackish transverse bands at night and when dead. Called also porgee, paugy, porgy, scuppaug..
Line :: Line (n.) Dispositions made to cover extended positions, and presenting a front in but one direction to an enemy..
Repute :: Repute (n.) Character reputed or attributed; reputation, whether good or bad; established opinion; public estimate..
Pains :: Pains (n.) Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; -- plural in form, but used with a singular or plural verb, commonly the former..
Octostyle :: Octostyle (a.) Having eight columns in the front; -- said of a temple or portico. The Parthenon is octostyle, but most large Greek temples are hexastele. See Hexastyle..
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