1. butter - Noun
2. butter - Verb
3. Butter - Proper noun
An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning.
Any substance resembling butter in degree of consistence, or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the chlorides, as butter of antimony, sesquichloride of antimony; also, certain concrete fat oils remaining nearly solid at ordinary temperatures, as butter of cacao, vegetable butter, shea butter.
To cover or spread with butter.
To increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game.
One who, or that which, butts.
Source: Webster's dictionaryFree speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance. William O. Douglas
To one, science is an exalted goddess; to another it is a cow which provides him with butter. Friedrich Schiller
Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat. Hermann Göring
You can kill a dog more way than by choking it with butter. Irish Proverb
One can't spoil porridge with butter. Russian Proverb
Manage with bread and salted butter until God brings something to eat with it. Moroccan Proverb