BUT
\bˈʌt], \bˈʌt], \b_ˈʌ_t]\
Definitions of BUT
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 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.
By Oddity Software
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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 Daniel Lyons
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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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
