Definition of button

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Button (n.) A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door..

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Knop :: Knop (n.) A knob; a bud; a bunch; a button.
Unbutton :: Unbutton (v. t.) To loose the buttons of; to unfasten.
Knap :: Knap (n.) A protuberance; a swelling; a knob; a button; hence, rising ground; a summit. See Knob, and Knop..
Nux Vomica :: Nux vomica () The seed of Strychnos Nuxvomica, a tree which abounds on the Malabar and Coromandel coasts of the East Indies. From this seed the deadly poisons known as strychnine and brucine are obtained. The seeds are sometimes called Quaker buttons..
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..
Joseph :: "Joseph (n.) An outer garment worn in the 18th century; esp., a woman's riding habit, buttoned down the front..
Buttoning :: Buttoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Butto.
Button :: Button (n.) A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass..
Frog :: Frog (n.) An oblong cloak button, covered with netted thread, and fastening into a loop instead of a button hole..
Soutane :: Soutane (n.) A close garnment with straight sleeves, and skirts reaching to the ankles, and buttoned in front from top to bottom; especially, the black garment of this shape worn by the clergy in France and Italy as their daily dress; a cassock..
Foil :: Foil (n.) A blunt weapon used in fencing, resembling a smallsword in the main, but usually lighter and having a button at the point..
Buttons :: Buttons (n.) A boy servant, or page, -- in allusion to the buttons on his livery..
Fly :: Fly (v. i.) The fore flap of a bootee; also, a lap on trousers, overcoats, etc., to conceal a row of buttons..
Toggle :: Toggle (n.) A wooden pin tapering toward both ends with a groove around its middle, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope to be secured to any other loop or bight or ring; a kind of button or frog capable of being readily engaged and disengaged for temporary purposes..
Buttoned :: Buttoned (imp. & p. p.) of Butto.
Button :: Button (v. i.) To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button..
Sherryvallies :: Sherryvallies (n. pl.) Trousers or overalls of thick cloth or leather, buttoned on the outside of each leg, and generally worn to protect other trousers when riding on horseback..
Button :: Button (n.) To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; -- often followed by up.
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..
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