2. Any substance resembling butter in degree of consistence,
or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the
chlorides, as butter of antimony, sesquichloride of
antimony; also, certain concrete fat oils remaining nearly
solid at ordinary temperatures, as butter of cacao,
vegetable butter, shea butter.
{Butter and eggs} (Bot.), a name given to several plants
having flowers of two shades of yellow, as {Narcissus
incomparabilis}, and in the United States to the toadflax
({Linaria vulgaris}).
{Butter boat}, a small vessel for holding melted butter at
table.
{Butter flower}, the buttercup, a yellow flower.
{Butter print}, a piece of carved wood used to mark pats of
butter; -- called also {butter stamp}. --Locke.
{Butter tooth}, either of the two middle incisors of the
upper jaw.
{Butter tree} (Bot.), a tree of the genus {Bassia}, the seeds
of which yield a substance closely resembling butter. The
butter tree of India is the {B. butyracea}; that of Africa
is the Shea tree ({B. Parkii}). See {Shea tree}.
{Butter trier}, a tool used in sampling butter.
{Butter wife}, a woman who makes or sells butter; -- called
also {butter woman}. [Obs. or Archaic]
I know what's what. I know on which side My bread is
buttered. --Ford.
2. To increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game.
[Cant] --Johnson.