Butyric Acid

(Chem.) A liquid with a sharp, acrid taste, and a smell of rancid butter, having a spec. grav. of 0973, and boiling at 314° Fahr. It is prepared by distilling three parts of butyrate of lime with twelve erty so as to become sole proprietor; to buy off. - To buy in. To purchase stock in any interest, fund, or property. To buy off . To cause to yield or surrender, by some consideration; as, to buy off an opponent. - To buy on credit. To purchase on a given promise, or written security, to pay at a certain specified time. -To buy the refusal. To advance money for the right of purchasing, at a given price, on a future day. -v. i. To negotiate or treat about a purchase. "I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you."-Shaks. parts of water and one of hydrochloric acid. Butyric Buyer, ( bi'er ,) n. One who buys; a purchaser. acid exists ready-formed in certain fruits, and is one of the products of oxidation of fibrin or caseine. All substances which form lactic acid may be made to yield butyric. Its salts, when dry, are inodorous, but when wetted, the strong smell of rancid butter is perceptible. Form. HOC3H7O3. Butyric Ether, a colorle inflammable liquid, with a peculiar odor and taste of pine-apple. It is a combination of ethyl and butyric acid. Di olved in alcohol, it is used in confectionery under the name of Pine - apple oil. The peculiar odor of old rum is due to the presence of a small Buz, a nephew of Abraham. Elihu, the Buzite, is supposed to have been of his family. Buzançais, a town of France, dep. Indre, cap. cant., on the Indre, 14 m. N.W. of Chateau roux. It is a quaint, ill-built place, in a good situation, and has a trade in wool. Pop . 5,517. Buzz, ( buz ,) v. i. [Formed from the sound.] To make a low humming sound, as bees; to hum; to whisper. "Among the buzzing multitude."-Shaks. quantity of this ether. It must not be confounded with --v. a. To whisper; to spread, as report, by whispers. butylic ether. Bu'tyrine, n. (Chem.) An oleaginous substance, dis "Did you not hear A buzzing of a separation Between the king and Catherine?" -Shaks. covered by Chevreul in butter. It is prepared by expos- - To sound by buzzing. ing purified butter to a temperature of 66° for several days. Stearine separates in grains, and an oily com "Herewith arose a buzzing noise among them." - Hayward. pound is obtained, which is mixed with alcohol and fre- -n. The humming noise made by bees, wasps, . quently shaken during twenty-four hours. The alcohol -A whisper; a rumor; a hum of talk. is then distilled off, carbonate of magnesia added to the oily residue, which is washed and treated with alcohol, when, on being once more distilled, it leaves the butyrine behind.