Bachelor's button

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• bachelor's button

  (Lychnis sylvestris.) The common name of a flower, supposed by country people to have some magical e...

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• Button

  ·noun To dress or clothe. II. Button ·noun A bud; a germ of a plant. III. Button ·noun A knob; a s...

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• button

  A bad shilling, among coiners. His a-se makes buttons; he is ready to bewray himself through fear. C...

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• button

  The knob of metal which terminates the breech end of most guns, and which affords a convenient beari...

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• Knights bachelors

  ·pl of Knight bachelor. ...

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• Aleppo button

  ·add. ·- ·Alt. of Aleppo evil. ...

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• Amboyna button

  ·add. ·- A chronic contagious affection of the skin, prevalent in the tropics. ...

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• Biskara button

  ·add. ·- ·same·as Aleppo boil. ...

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• Push button

  ·add. ·- A simple device, resembling a button in form, so arranged that pushing it closes an electri...

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• Button Court

  South out of Acorn Alley, Bishopsgate, in Bishopsgate Ward Without (Lockie, 1810-Elmes, 1831). Not ...

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• button-grass

  n. Schaenussphaerocephalus, Poiret, N.O. Cyperaceae. The grassis found covering barren boggy land i...

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• button bush

  (Cephalanthus occidentalis.) A shrub which grows along the water side, its insulated thickets furnis...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• button wood

  (Platanus occidentalis.) The popular name in New England of the sycamore tree; so called from the ha...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.