Index of English words, starting with "bu"

(1) - Button (v. i.) To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button.
(2) - Button (n.) To dress or clothe.
(3) - Button (n.) To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; -- often followed by up.
(4) - Button (n.) A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
(5) - Button (n.) A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door.
(6) - Button (n.) A bud; a germ of a plant.
(7) - Button (n.) A catch, of various forms and materials, used to fasten together the different parts of dress, by being attached to one part, and passing through a slit, called a buttonhole, in the other; -- used also for ornament.
(8) - Button (n.) A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.

(1) - Buttoned (imp. & p. p.) of Button

(1) - Buttonhole (v. t.) To hold at the button or buttonhole; to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; as, he buttonholed me a quarter of an hour.
(2) - Buttonhole (n.) The hole or loop in which a button is caught.