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 BUT ( 606 ) BUT the proper ufe of the crown. But for many years There are as many forts of butter, as there are difpad, there having been granted by parliament fubfi- ferent milks of animals whereof to make it: That of dies to the kings of England, and the duty of butle- the cow is moll: in ufe. It is ufed every where, and rage not repealed, but confirmed, they have been there is hardly any fauce^made without -it. The pleafed to grant the fame away to fome nobleman, northern people, hqwever, make more ufe of it than who, by virtue of fuch grant, is to enjoy the full benefit and advantage thereof, and may caufe the fame others. Every barrel of butter, imported from abroad, pays to be colleft; d in the fame manner that the kings them- a duty of 3 s. 10-^d whereof 3 s. qid. is drawn felves were formerly wont to do. back on exporting it. Irilh butter pays only a duty HUTMENTS, in architedure, thofe fupporters or of is. iiT^d. the hundred weight; whereof is. props on Or againft which the feet of arches reft. SrVs-d. is drawn back on exporting it. Butment is alfo the term given to little places taken Butter among chemifts, a name given to feveral preout of the yard or ground-plot of a houfe, for a but- parations, on account of their confiftence refembling tery, fcullery, ejrc. that of butter; as butter of antimony, of arfenic, of BUTOMUS, in botany, a genus of the enneandria hex- wax, of lead, of tin. See Chemistry. agynia clafs. It has no calix; the corolla cpnfifts of Butter-bur, in botany. See Petasites. fsx petals ; and the capfules are fix, containing many Butter-fish. SccBlennius. feeds. There is but one fpecies, viz. the umbellatus, BUTTERFLY, the Englilh name of a numerous genus flowering-rulh, or water-gladiole, a native of Britain. of infedls. See Papilio. BUTRINTO, a port-town of Epirus, or Canina, in Butterfly-fish, a fpecies of the blennius. See Turky in Europe, fituated oppofite to the ifland of Blennius. Coifu, at the entrance of the gulph of Venice: E. BuTtERFLY- shell, in natural hiftory. See Voluta. long. 200 40', N. let, 390 45'. BUTTERIS, in the menage, an inftrument of fteei, BUT f, in commerce, a velfel or meafure of wine, con- fitted to a wooden handle, wherewith they pare the taining two hogfineads, or 126 gallons. See Pipe. foot, or cut the hoof of a horfe. Butt, or Butt-ends, in the fea-language, are the BUTTER-MILK, a kind of ferum that remains behind, fore-ends of all planks under water, as they rife, and after the butter is made. Butter-wort, in botany. See Pinguicula. are joined one end to another. Butt-ends in great (hips are moft carefully bolted; BUTTERY, a- room in the houfes of noblemen and for if any one of them fhould fpring or give way, the gentlemen, belonging to the butler, where he depofites the utenfils belonging to his office, as table linen, leak would be very dangerous nnd difficult to ftop. .BUTTER, a fat un&uous fubftance, prepared from napkins, pots, tankards, glafies, cruets, falvers, fpoons, ' knives, forks, pepper, muftard, 6r. milk by heating or churning it. It was late ere the Greeks appear to have had any BUTTOCK of a Jhip, is that part of her which is her notion of butter ; their poets make no mention of it, breadth right aftern, from, the tack upwards; and a and yet are frequently fpeaking of milk and cheefe. fliip is faid to have a broad or a narrow buttock, acThe Romans ufed butter no otherwife than as a me- cording as (he is built broad or narrow at the- tranfum. dicine, never as a food. BUTTON, an article of drefs, ferving to fallen cloaths The ancient Chriftians of Egypt burnt butter in tight about the body, made of metal, filk, mohair, their lamps inftead of oil; and in the Roman churches, tec. in various forms. Metal-buttons are either caft it was anciently allowed, during Chriftmas time, to in moulds, in the manner of other fmall works, (fee burn butter inftead of oil, on account of the great con- Foundery), or made of thin plates of gold, filver, or brafs, whofe Itrudture is very ingenious, though but fumption of it otherways. For the making of butter, when it has been churn- of little ufe. Buttons of all forts are prohibited to be imported. ed, open the churn, and with both hands gather it well together, take-it out of the butter-milk, and lay it in- Button, among gardeners, denotes much the fame with bud. See Bud. to a very clean bowl, or earthen pan; and if the but- Button, in the menage. Button of the reigns of a ter be defigned to be ufed fweet, fill the pan with clear water, and work the butter in it to and fro, till bridle, is a ring of leather, with the reins palled thro’ . it is brought to -a firm confiftence of itfelf, without it, which runs all along the length of the reins. To any moifture. When this has been done, it muft be put a horfe under the button, is when a horfe is Hopfcotched and fliced over with the point of a knife, ped without a rider upon his back, the reins being laid every way as thick as polfible, in order to fetch out on his neck, and the button lowered fo far down that the fmalleft hair, mote, bit of rag, ftrainer, or any the reins bring in the horfe’s head, and fix it to the thing that may have happened to fall into it. Then true pofture or carriage. It is not only the horfes Spread it thin in a bowl, and work it well together, which are managed in the hand that muft be put unwith fuch quantity of fait as you think fit, and make der the button; for the fame method muft be taken it up into dilhes, pounds, half pounds, <bc. The with fuch horfes as are bred between two pillars, benewer the butter is, the more wholefome and pleafant fore they are backed. it is; and that which is made in May, is efteemed BUTTON’/-£47, the name of the north part of Hudfon’s bay, in North America, whereby Sir Thomas the beft. ButtoA