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Mattages :: Mattages (n.) A shrike or butcher bird; -- written also matagasse.

Offal :: Offal (n.) The rejected or waste parts of a butchered animal.

Butchered :: Butchered (imp. & p. p.) of Butche.

Butcherliness :: Butcherliness (n.) Butchery quality.

Gambrel :: Gambrel (n.) A stick crooked like a horse's hind leg; -- used by butchers in suspending slaughtered animals.

Massacre :: Massacre (n.) To kill in considerable numbers where much resistance can not be made; to kill with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and contrary to the usages of nations; to butcher; to slaughter; -- limited to the killing of human beings..

Butchery :: Butchery (n.) The business of a butcher.

Nine-killer :: Nine-killer (n.) The northern butcher bird.

Shrike :: Shrike (v. i.) Any one of numerous species of oscinine birds of the family Laniidae, having a strong hooked bill, toothed at the tip. Most shrikes are insectivorous, but the common European gray shrike (Lanius excubitor), the great northern shrike (L. borealis), and several others, kill mice, small birds, etc., and often impale them on thorns, and are, on that account called also butcher birds. See under Butcher..

Butcher :: Butcher (n.) A slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle..

Matagasse :: Matagasse (n.) A shrike or butcher bird; -- called also mattages.

Slaughter :: Slaughter (v. t.) To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts..

Cleaver :: Cleaver (n.) One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces..

Butcher :: Butcher (n.) One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food..

Butchery :: Butchery (n.) Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter..

Butcher''s Broom :: Butcher's broom () A genus of plants (Ruscus); esp. R. aculeatus, which has large red berries and leaflike branches. See Cladophyll..

Stall :: Stall (v. i.) A small apartment or shed in which merchandise is exposed for sale; as, a butcher's stall; a bookstall..

Crow :: Crow (v. i.) The mesentery of a beast; -- so called by butchers.

Loggerhead :: Loggerhead (n.) An American shrike (Lanius Ludovicianus), similar to the butcher bird, but smaller. See Shrike..

Flesher :: Flesher (n.) A butcher.

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