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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BUT'TERY, a. [from butter.] Having the qualities or appearance of butter.
BUT'TERY, n. An apartment in a house, where butter, milk, provisions and utensils are kept. In some colleges, a room where liquors, fruit and refreshments are kept for sale to the students.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; "buttery praise"; "gave him a fulsome introduction"; "an oily sycophantic press agent"; "oleaginous hypocrisy"; "smarmy self-importance"; "the unctuous Uriah Heep"; "soapy compliments" [syn: buttery, fulsome, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy, unctuous]
2: resembling or containing or spread with butter; "a rich buttery cake" n
1: a small storeroom for storing foods or wines [syn: pantry, larder, buttery]
2: a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals

Merriam Webster's

I. noun (plural -teries) Etymology: Middle English boterie, from Anglo-French, from but cask, butt — more at butt Date: 14th century 1. a storeroom for liquors 2. a. chiefly dialect pantry b. a room (as in an English college) stocking provisions for sale to students II. adjective Date: 14th century 1. a. having the qualities (as smoothness or richness) of butter <buttery flavors> b. containing or spread with butter <buttery pastry> 2. marked by flattery <buttery compliments>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. n. (pl. -ies) a room, esp. in a college, where provisions are kept and supplied to students etc. Etymology: ME f. AF boterie butt-store (as BUTT(4)) 2. adj. like, containing, or spread with butter. Derivatives: butteriness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Buttery But"ter*y, a. Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Buttery But"ter*y, n.; pl. Butteries. [OE. botery, botry; cf. LL. botaria wine vessel; also OE. botelerie, fr. F. bouteillerie, fr. boutellie bottle. Not derived from butter. See Bottle a hollow vessel, Butt a cask.] 1. An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other provisions are kept. All that need a cool and fresh temper, as cellars, pantries, and butteries, to the north. --Sir H. Wotton. 2. A room in some English colleges where liquors, fruit, and refreshments are kept for sale to the students. And the major Oxford kept the buttery bar. --E. Hall. 3. A cellar in which butts of wine are kept. --Weale. Buttery hatch, a half door between the buttery or kitchen and the hall, in old mansions, over which provisions were passed. --Wright.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Buttery food contains butter or is covered with butter. ...buttery new potatoes. ...the buttery taste of the pastry. ADJ: usu ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Pantry.