Hypertext Webster Gateway: "buttery"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Buttery \But"ter*y\, a.
Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Buttery \But"ter*y\, n.; pl. {Butteries}. [OE. botery, botry;
cf. LL. botaria wine vessel; also OE. botelerie, fr. F.
bouteillerie, fr. boutellie bottle. Not derived from butter.
See {Bottle} a hollow vessel, {Butt} a cask.]
1. An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other
provisions are kept.
All that need a cool and fresh temper, as cellars,
pantries, and butteries, to the north. --Sir H.
Wotton.
2. A room in some English colleges where liquors, fruit, and
refreshments are kept for sale to the students.
And the major Oxford kept the buttery bar. --E.
Hall.
3. A cellar in which butts of wine are kept. --Weale.
{Buttery hatch}, a half door between the buttery or kitchen
and the hall, in old mansions, over which provisions were
passed. --Wright.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
buttery
adj 1: unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner
or speech; "buttery praise"; "gave him a fulsome
introduction"; "an oily sycophantic press agent";
"oleaginous hypocrisy"; "smarmy self-importance"; "the
unctuous Uriah Heep" [syn: {fulsome}, {oily}, {oleaginous},
{smarmy}, {unctuous}]
2: resembling or containing or spread with butter; "a rich
buttery cake"
n 1: a small storeroom for storing foods or wines [syn: {pantry},
{larder}]
2: a teashop where students in British universities can
purchase light meals
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