Butler

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• Butler

  ·noun An officer in a king's or a nobleman's household, whose principal business it is to take charg...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Butler

  Properly a servant in charge of the wine (Gen. 40:1-13; 41:9). The Hebrew word, mashkeh, thus transl...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• Butler, Joseph

  (1692-1752) Theologian, b. at Wantage, s. of a Presbyterian linen-draper, was destined for the mini...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Butler, Samuel

  1) (1612-1680) Satirist, was the s. of a Worcestershire farmer. In early youth he was page to the C...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Butler Street

  East out of Milton Street, at No. 69, to Moor Lane (P.O. Directory). In cripplegate Ward Without. F...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Butler, Sir William Francis

  G.C.B. (b. 1838) Traveller and biographer. The Great Lone Land (1872), The Wild North Land (1873),...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Yeats, William Butler

  (b. 1865) Poet. The Wanderings of Oisin (1889), The Countess Kathleen (1892), The Celtic Twilight (...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin