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Button :: Button (n.) To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; -- often followed by up.

Knap :: Knap (n.) A protuberance; a swelling; a knob; a button; hence, rising ground; a summit. See Knob, and Knop..

Knopped :: Knopped (a.) Having knops or knobs; fastened as with buttons.

Probe-pointed :: Probe-pointed (a.) Having a blunt or button-shaped extremity; -- said of cutting instruments.

Single-breasted :: Single-breasted (a.) Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast..

Parting :: Parting (n.) The separation and determination of alloys; esp., the separation, as by acids, of gold from silver in the assay button..

Scorifier :: Scorifier (n.) One who, or that which, scorifies; specifically, a small flat bowl-shaped cup used in the first heating in assaying, to remove the earth and gangue, and to concentrate the gold and silver in a lead button..

Buttonwood :: 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..

Jet :: "Jet (n.) A variety of lignite, of a very compact texture and velvet black color, susceptible of a good polish, and often wrought into mourning jewelry, toys, buttons, etc. Formerly called also black amber..

Buttonball :: Buttonball (n.) See Buttonwood.

Punch :: Punch (n.) A tool, usually of steel, variously shaped at one end for different uses, and either solid, for stamping or for perforating holes in metallic plates and other substances, or hollow and sharpedged, for cutting out blanks, as for buttons, steel pens, jewelry, and the like; a die..

Boutonniere :: Boutonniere (n.) A bouquet worn in a buttonhole.

Muffle :: Muffle (v. t.) An earthenware compartment or oven, often shaped like a half cylinder, used in furnaces to protect objects heated from the direct action of the fire, as in scorification of ores, cupellation of ore buttons, etc..

Fly :: Fly (v. i.) The fore flap of a bootee; also, a lap on trousers, overcoats, etc., to conceal a row of buttons..

Button :: Button (n.) A bud; a germ of a plant.

Unbutton :: Unbutton (v. t.) To loose the buttons of; to unfasten.

Button :: Button (n.) A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion..

Frog :: Frog (n.) An oblong cloak button, covered with netted thread, and fastening into a loop instead of a button hole..

Gauge :: Gauge (n.) Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the dimensions or forms of things; a templet or template; as, a button maker's gauge..

Button :: Button (v. i.) To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button..

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