Button

but'n, n. A small ball; knob; a catch, to fasten together parts of dre , or to hold a door closed a bud; germ of a plant. (A aying.) A round ma of metal remaining in the cupel after fusion, —v.t. [buttqneJ) (but'nd), -toxi-ng.] To fasten with, etc — v.i. To be fastened by, etc. [OF. bot on, F. bouton, a bud, hence a button, boter, to push out; butt.] — But 'ton-hole, b. The hole in which a button is caught. — v. To hold by the button or—button-hole to detain in conversation to bore. mold, -mould, -m6ld, n. A disk of bone, wood, etc., which made into a button by covering with cloth. wood, n. The North American plane-tree, producing rough balls the button-ball.