buttoner (butner)

1. One who or that which buttons; a button-hook.-2. A decoy. [Eng. slang.] button-fastener (but'n-fas"nėr), n. A clasp for fastening buttons. button-flower (but'n-flou"ėr), n. A name given to species of Gomphia, shrubs and trees of trop ical America, natural order Ochnacea. Some are occasionally cultivated in hothouses. buttonhole (but'n-hol), n. 1. The hole or loop in which a button is caught. - 2. A name given to the hart's-tongue fern, Scolopendrium vul gare, because its fructification in the young state resembles a buttonhole in form and appearance. buttonhole (but'n-hol), v. t.; pret. and pp. but tonholed, ppr. buttonholing. [ He won't stand on the corner and buttonhole everybody with the news. T. Winthrop , Cecil Dreeme, vi. 2. To make buttonholes in. A small metal