BUT
\bˈʌt], \bˈʌt], \b_ˈʌ_t]\
Definitions of BUT
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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Only; solely; merely.
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On the contrary; on the other hand; only; yet; still; however; nevertheless; more; further; -- as connective of sentences or clauses of a sentence, in a sense more or less exceptive or adversative; as, the House of Representatives passed the bill, but the Senate dissented; our wants are many, but quite of another kind.
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A limit; a boundary.
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The end; esp. the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in distinction from the sharp, end. See 1st Butt.
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See Butt, v., and Abut, v.
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A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
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The thicker end of anything. See But.
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A mark to be shot at; a target.
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A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed; as, the butt of the company.
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A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head of an animal; as, the butt of a ram.
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A thrust in fencing.
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A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field.
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The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib.
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The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose.
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The joint where two planks in a strake meet.
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The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.
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The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice.
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Excepting or excluding the fact that; save that; were it not that; unless; - elliptical, for but that.
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Otherwise than that; that not; - commonly, after a negative, with that.
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The outer apartment or kitchen of a two-roomed house; - opposed to ben, the inner room.
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A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering; - also called butt joint.
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A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc.; - so named because fastened on the edge of the door, which butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt hinge.
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Only; solely; merely.
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On the contrary; on the other hand; only; yet; still; however; nevertheless; more; further; -- as connective of sentences or clauses of a sentence, in a sense more or less exceptive or adversative; as, the House of Representatives passed the bill, but the Senate dissented; our wants are many, but quite of another kind.
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A limit; a boundary.
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The end; esp. the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in distinction from the sharp, end. See 1st Butt.
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See Butt, v., and Abut, v.
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A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
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The thicker end of anything. See But.
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A mark to be shot at; a target.
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A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed; as, the butt of the company.
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A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head of an animal; as, the butt of a ram.
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A thrust in fencing.
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A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field.
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The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib.
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The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose.
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The joint where two planks in a strake meet.
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The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.
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The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice.
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Excepting or excluding the fact that; save that; were it not that; unless; - elliptical, for but that.
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Otherwise than that; that not; - commonly, after a negative, with that.
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The outer apartment or kitchen of a two-roomed house; - opposed to ben, the inner room.
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A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering; - also called butt joint.
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A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc.; - so named because fastened on the edge of the door, which butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt hinge.
By Noah Webster.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Not otherwise than; no more than; only.
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Leaving out; except; barring.
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Except; yet; nevertheless; however; not with standing; tho; even if; besides; again.
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The larger or thicker end of anything.
By James Champlin Fernald
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prep. & conj. [Anglo-Saxon] Except; besides; unless;—save that; were it not that;—otherwise than that;—only; merely;—not longer ago than; nothing more than;—one the contrary; on the other hand; yet; however; nevertheless; moreover.
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Except; yet, nevertheless; the particle which introduces the minor of a syllogism, now; only, nothing more than; than; not otherwise than; by no other means than; if it were not for this; however, howbeit; otherwise than; even, not longer ago than; yet it may be objected; But for, had not this been.
By Thomas Sheridan
