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

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

Cart :: Cart (n.) A light business wagon used by bakers, grocerymen, butchers, etc..

Butcher :: Butcher (v. t.) To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs..

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

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

Butcherliness :: Butcherliness (n.) Butchery quality.

Butcher :: Butcher (v. t.) To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner..

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

Shamble :: Shamble (n.) A place where butcher's meat is sold.

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

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

Reedling :: Reedling (n.) The European bearded titmouse (Panurus biarmicus); -- called also reed bunting, bearded pinnock, and lesser butcher bird..

Slaughterhouse :: Slaughterhouse (n.) A house where beasts are butchered for the market.

Butchering :: Butchering (n.) The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly.

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

Butchering :: Butchering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Butche.

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..

Joint :: "Joint (n.) Any one of the large pieces of meat, as cut into portions by the butcher for roasting..

Butchery :: Butchery (n.) A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed.

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