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    Button , n. [OE. boton, botoun, F. bouton button, bud, prop. something pushing out, fr. bouter to push. See Butt an end.]
    1. A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
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    2. 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.
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    3. A bud; a germ of a plant.
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    4. A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door.
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    5. A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
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      Button hook, a hook for catching a button and drawing it through a buttonhole, as in buttoning boots and gloves. -- Button shell (Zool.), a small, univalve marine shell of the genus Rotella. -- Button snakeroot. (Bot.) (a) The American composite genus Liatris, having rounded buttonlike heads of flowers. (b) An American umbelliferous plant with rigid, narrow leaves, and flowers in dense heads. -- Button tree (Bot.), a genus of trees (Conocarpus), furnishing durable timber, mostly natives of the West Indies. -- To hold by the button, to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; to buttonhole.
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    Button, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Buttoned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Buttoning .] [OE. botonen, OF. botoner, F. boutonner. See Button, n.]
    1. To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; -- often followed by up.
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      He was a tall, fat, long-bodied man, buttoned up to the throat in a tight green coat.
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    2. To dress or clothe. [Obs.]
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    Button, v. i. To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button.
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    Push button. (Elec.) A simple device, resembling a button in form, so arranged that pushing it closes an electric circuit, as of an electric bell; -- called also button.
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