butter boat (buterbot)

A ve el for the table in which melted butter, intended to be used as a sauce, is served; a sauce-boat. butter-box (but'er-boks), n. 1. A box or ve el for butter.-2t. A Dutchman. [Slang.] butter bump (but'er-bump), n. [Also butter mump (and cf. buttermunk ), large leaves are used for wrapping butter. butter-fingered (but'er-fing"gerd), a. Having slippery or weak fingers; clumsy in the use of the hands. [Slang. butter-fingers (but'er-fing"gėrz), n. One who lets drop anything he ought to hold; a butter finger fingered person; specifically, in base - ball and cricket, one who "muffs" a ball. [Slang.] When, on the executioner lifting the head of the seventh traitor, as the preceding six had been lifted to the public gaze, he happened to let it fall, cries of "Ah, clumsy!" "Halloo, butter - fingers !" were heard from various quarters of the a embly. butter-fish (but'ér-fish), n. 1. A name given to various fishes and other marine animals having a smooth and unctuous surface like butter. (a) The fish Stromateus (or Poronotus ) tri acanthus. It has Hook , Gilbert Gurney, II. i. Butter-fish ( Stromateus tri acanthus). an oval form, rounded in front, with pores on the back in can coast, but not much esteemed for food. [Ma achusetts and New York.] (b) A carangoid fish, Selene setipin nis, otherwise called humpback butter - fish. [Wood's Holl, Ma achusetts.) (c) A fish of the family Labridæ, Corido dax pullus. It has an oblong body with small smooth scales, a naked head, and 17 dorsal spines and 17 rays. The flesh is exceedingly short in the grain, and well savored, without being rich. It inhabits the kelp-beds around New Zealand. (d) A bivalve mollusk of the family Veneride, Tapes dec us sat a; the purr. [Local, Eng. (Hampshire).] (e) A bivalve mollusk of the family Myi Hampshire bivalve moll 2. A fish of the genus Muranoides, especially M. gunnellus. [Eng.] -3. A serranoid fish, En neacentrus punctatus. Also called nigger - fish. [West Ind.]