Definition of butcher

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

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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..
Loggerhead :: Loggerhead (n.) An American shrike (Lanius Ludovicianus), similar to the butcher bird, but smaller. See Shrike..
Butcherliness :: Butcherliness (n.) Butchery quality.
Butchering :: Butchering (n.) The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly.
Butcherly :: Butcherly (a.) Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell.
Stall :: Stall (v. i.) A small apartment or shed in which merchandise is exposed for sale; as, a butcher's stall; a bookstall..
Offal :: Offal (n.) The rejected or waste parts of a butchered animal.
Slaughterhouse :: Slaughterhouse (n.) A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
Matagasse :: Matagasse (n.) A shrike or butcher bird; -- called also mattages.
Butchery :: Butchery (n.) Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter..
Flesher :: Flesher (n.) A butcher.
Butchery :: Butchery (n.) A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed.
Butchered :: Butchered (imp. & p. p.) of Butche.
Butchering :: Butchering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Butche.
Crow :: Crow (v. i.) The mesentery of a beast; -- so called by butchers.
Keech :: Keech (n.) A mass or lump of fat rolled up by the butcher.
Nine-killer :: Nine-killer (n.) The northern butcher bird.
Butchery :: Butchery (n.) The business of a 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..
Cleaver :: Cleaver (n.) One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces..
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