buttony (butni)

[ with Emmy's and Jos's visiting card. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, ix. buttourt, n. A Middle English form of bittern1 . butyrate 3t. [Also written but trice, butter is.] In far riery, an instrument of steel set in wood, for paring the hoof of a horse. Minsheu; Kersey. -Flying buttre , in medieval arch., a support in the form of a segment of an arch springing from a solid the of side-aisle buttre , abutting against another part of the structure, as the wall of a clearstory, in which case it acts as a counterpoise against the vaulting of the central pile: so named from its pa ing through the air. - Hanging buttre , in arch., a feature in the form of a buttre , not standing solid on a foundation, but supported on a corbel. It is applied in debased styles chiefly as a decoration. buttre (but'res), v. t. [ To set it upright again, and to prop and buttre it up for duration. Burke , Reform of Representation. A white wall, buttre ed well, made girdle wide To towers and roofs where yet his kin did bide. William Morris, Earthly Paradise, III. 369. buttre -tower (but'res-tou"ėr), n. In early fort ., a tower projecting from the face of the rampart-wall, but not rising above it. It was afterward developed into the bastion.