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Buttoned up is slang for taciturn; silent and somewhat tense.
mescaline
A young boy.
Professional killer
(dodger) a large horn button on an overcoat
Button it is slang for shut up, or keep quiet.
  Buttons and other Hawkers small wares.
Buttonhole was old British slang for the vagina.
mescaline
(purl) to spin a top or toss a coin or button
Button is slang for the clitoris. Button is slang for the chin.Button is slang for a section of the peyote cactus, ingested for its hallucinogenic effect.
A button short is slang for intellectually deficient.
Police
Have all your buttons is slang for bright, clever.
Buttons and bows is London Cockney rhyming slang for toes.
Billy Button is ols British slang for a tailor.
Face, nose, end of jaw
Playground name for anyone who had a nervous tic, after one of the "Unit" kids who called himself Billy Buttons and went around asking everyone to play with him at every opportunity.
Button one's lip is slang for be quiet, shut up.
 A sharper's assistant who entices dupes.
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imp. & p. p.
of Button
n.
An instrument for detecting or measuring minute extension or movements of solid bodies. It consists essentially of a small rod, disk, or button of carbon, forming part of an electrical circuit, the resistance of which, being varied by the changes of pressure produced by the movements of the object to be measured, causes variations in the strength of the current, which variations are indicated by a sensitive galvanometer. It is also used for measuring minute changes of temperature.
n.
To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; -- often followed by up.
a.
Ornamented with a large number of buttons.
n.
See Buttonwood.
n.
A disk of bone, wood, or other material, which is made into a button by covering it with cloth.
n.
A wooden pin tapering toward both ends with a groove around its middle, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope to be secured to any other loop or bight or ring; a kind of button or frog capable of being readily engaged and disengaged for temporary purposes.
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.
n.
The hole or loop in which a button is caught.
v. t.
To loose the buttons of; to unfasten.
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.
n. pl.
Trousers or overalls of thick cloth or leather, buttoned on the outside of each leg, and generally worn to protect other trousers when riding on horseback.
v. t.
To reduce to scoria or slag; specifically, in assaying, to fuse so as to separate the gangue and earthy material, with borax, lead, soda, etc., thus leaving the gold and silver in a lead button; hence, to separate from, or by means of, a slag.
v. i.
To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button.
n.
A boy servant, or page, -- in allusion to the buttons on his livery.
n.
The Platanus occidentalis, or American plane tree, a large tree, producing rough balls, from which it is named; -- called also buttonball tree, and, in some parts of the United States, sycamore. The California buttonwood is P. racemosa.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Button
v.
A loop forming an eye to a button.
n.
One who, or that which, scorifies; specifically, a small flat bowl-shaped cup used in the first heating in assaying, to remove the earth and gangue, and to concentrate the gold and silver in a lead button.
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