adj. 1. markedly masculine in appearance or manner; -- used of men.
Syn. -- macho. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. same as lesbian. [ pejorative ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a lesbian who is noticeably masculine.
Syn. -- dyke. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. bochere, bochier, OF. bochier, F. boucher, orig., slaughterer of buck goats, fr. OF. boc, F. bouc, a buck goat; of German or Celtic origin. See Buck the animal. ] 1. One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle. “Butcher of an innocent child.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Butcher's meat, such flesh of animals slaughtered for food as is sold for that purpose by butchers, as beef, mutton, lamb, and pork. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Butchered p. pr. & vb. n. Butchering. ] 1. To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Ithocles ] was murdered, rather butchered. Ford. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. to bungle badly; to botch; -- used also when an object is damaged (literally or figuratively) in an activity; as, the new choir butchered the hymn.
Syn. -- mangle. [ PJC ]

n. 1. (Zool.) any species of shrike of the genus Lanius, so called because they impale their prey on thorns. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

2. (Zool.) large carnivorous Australian bird with the shrikelike habit of impaling prey on thorns. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

☞ The Lanius excubitor is the common butcher bird of Europe. In England, the bearded tit is sometimes called the lesser butcher bird. The American species are Lanius borealis, or northern butcher bird, and Lanius Ludovicianus or loggerhead shrike. The name butcher bird is derived from its habit of suspending its prey impaled upon thorns, after killing it. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The business of a butcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly. [ 1913 Webster ]

That dreadful butchering of one another. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Butchery quality. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell. “The victim of a butcherly murder.” D. Webster. [ 1913 Webster ]

What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly,
This deadly quarrel daily doth beget! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) A genus of plants (Ruscus); esp. Ruscus aculeatus, which has large red berries and leaflike branches. See Cladophyll. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. bocherie shambles, fr. F. boucherie. See Butcher, n. ] 1. The business of a butcher. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The perpetration of human butchery. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Like as an ox is hanged in the butchery. Fabyan. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Murder; slaughter; carnage. See Massacre. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) An inflammable, volatile, oily, liquid hydrocarbon, obtained by the destructive distillation of caoutchouc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. caoutchouc, from the South American name. ] A tenacious, elastic, gummy substance obtained from the milky sap of several plants of tropical South America (esp. the euphorbiaceous tree Siphonia elastica or Hevea caoutchouc), Asia, and Africa. Being impermeable to liquids and gases, and not readly affected by exposure to air, acids, and alkalies, it is used, especially when vulcanized, for many purposes in the arts and in manufactures. Also called India rubber (because it was first brought from India, and was formerly used chiefly for erasing pencil marks) and gum elastic. See Vulcanization. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mineral caoutchouc. See under Mineral. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Caoutchin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. cloche, cloke, claw, Scot. clook, cleuck, also OE. cleche claw, clechen, cleken, to seize; cf. AS. gelæccan (where ge- is a prefix) to seize. Cf. Latch a catch. ] 1. A gripe or clinching with, or as with, the fingers or claws; seizure; grasp. “The clutch of poverty.” Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

An expiring clutch at popularity. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

But Age, with his stealing steps,
Hath clawed me in his clutch. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. The hands, claws, or talons, in the act of grasping firmly; -- often figuratively, for power, rapacity, or cruelty; as, to fall into the clutches of an adversary. [ 1913 Webster ]

I must have . . . little care of myself, if I ever more come near the clutches of such a giant. Bp. Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mach.) A device which is used for coupling shafting, etc., so as to transmit motion, and which may be disengaged at pleasure. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Zool.) The nest complement of eggs of a bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bayonet clutch (Mach.), a clutch in which connection is made by means of bayonets attached to arms sliding on a feathered shaft. The bayonets slide through holes in a crosshead fastened on the shaft. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Clutched p. pr. & vb. n. Clutching. ] [ OE. clucchen. See Clutch, n. ] 1. To seize, clasp, or grip with the hand, hands, or claws; -- often figuratively; as, to clutch power. [ 1913 Webster ]

A man may set the poles together in his head, and clutch the whole globe at one intellectual grasp. Collier. [ 1913 Webster ]

Is this a dagger which I see before me . . . ?
Come, let me clutch thee. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To close tightly; to clinch. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not that I have the power to clutch my hand. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To reach (at something) as if to grasp; to catch or snatch; -- often followed by at. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. to become too tense or frightened to perform properly; used sometimes with up; as, he clutched up on the exam. [ PJC ]

n. 1. the act of grasping.
Syn. -- clasp, clench, clutch, grasp, grip, hold. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. control; power; -- used in the phrase in one's clutches. Same as clutch{ 2 }. [ PJC ]

n. (Baseball) a batter who hits safely more frequently when men are on base or the team is behind in the score. [ PJC ]

Clutching at the phantoms of the stock market. Bankroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Mach.) A friction clutch with conical bearing surfaces. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n.; pl. Crutches [ OE. crucche, AS. crycc, cricc; akin to D. kruk, G. krücke, Dan. krykke, Sw. krycka, and to E. crook. See Crook, and cf. Cricket a low stool. ] 1. A staff with a crosspiece at the head, to be placed under the arm or shoulder, to support the lame or infirm in walking. [ 1913 Webster ]

I'll lean upon one crutch, and fight with the other. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rhyme is a crutch that lifts the weak alone. H. Smith. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A form of pommel for a woman's saddle, consisting of a forked rest to hold the leg of the rider. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) (a) A knee, or piece of knee timber. (b) A forked stanchion or post; a crotch. See Crotch. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To support on crutches; to prop up. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Two fools that crutch their feeble sense on verse. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Supported upon crutches. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ See Crouch, v. t., and Crouched, a. ] Marked with the sign of the cross; crouched. [ 1913 Webster ]

Crutched friar (Eccl.), one of a religious order, so called because its members bore the sign of the cross on their staves and habits; -- called also crossed friar and crouched friar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Catechu. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) See Cultch. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Hind. kachahri. ] A hindu hall of justice. Malcom. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. & t. to disengage the clutch of a car. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

. (Engin.) A friction clutch in which the gripping surfaces are disks or more or less resemble disks. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ D. duitsch German; or G. deutsch, orig., popular, national, OD. dietsc, MHG. diutsch, tiutsch, OHG. diutisk, fr. diot, diota, a people, a nation; akin to AS. peód, OS. thiod, thioda, Goth. piuda; cf. Lith. tauta land, OIr. tuath people, Oscan touto. The English have applied the name especially to the Germanic people living nearest them, the Hollanders. Cf. Derrick, Teutonic. ] Pertaining to Holland, or to its inhabitants. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dutch auction. See under Auction. --
Dutch cheese, a small, pound, hard cheese, made from skim milk. --
Dutch clinker, a kind of brick made in Holland. It is yellowish, very hard, and long and narrow in shape. --
Dutch clover (Bot.), common white clover (Trifolium repens), the seed of which was largely imported into England from Holland. --
Dutch concert, a so-called concert in which all the singers sing at the same time different songs. [ Slang ] --
Dutch courage, the courage of partial intoxication. [ Slang ] Marryat. --
Dutch door, a door divided into two parts, horizontally, so arranged that the lower part can be shut and fastened, while the upper part remains open. --
Dutch foil,
Dutch leaf, or
Dutch gold, a kind of brass rich in copper, rolled or beaten into thin sheets, used in Holland to ornament toys and paper; -- called also Dutch mineral, Dutch metal, brass foil, and bronze leaf. --
Dutch liquid (Chem.), a thin, colorless, volatile liquid, C2H4Cl2, of a sweetish taste and a pleasant ethereal odor, produced by the union of chlorine and ethylene or olefiant gas; -- called also Dutch oil. It is so called because discovered (in 1795) by an association of four Hollandish chemists. See Ethylene, and Olefiant. --
Dutch oven, a tin screen for baking before an open fire or kitchen range; also, in the United States, a shallow iron kettle for baking, with a cover to hold burning coals. --
Dutch pink, chalk, or whiting dyed yellow, and used in distemper, and for paper staining. etc. Weale. --
Dutch rush (Bot.), a species of horsetail rush or Equisetum (Equisetum hyemale) having a rough, siliceous surface, and used for scouring and polishing; -- called also scouring rush, and shave grass. See Equisetum. --
Dutch tile, a glazed and painted ornamental tile, formerly much exported, and used in the jambs of chimneys and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Dutch was formerly used for German. [ 1913 Webster ]

Germany is slandered to have sent none to this war [ the Crusades ] at this first voyage; and that other pilgrims, passing through that country, were mocked by the Dutch, and called fools for their pains. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. pl. The people of Holland; Dutchmen. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The language spoken in Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Dutchmen A native, or one of the people, of Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dutchman's laudanum (Bot.), a West Indian passion flower (Passiflora Murucuja); also, its fruit. --
Dutchman's pipe (Bot.), . [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.), a delicate perennial spring-flowering herb (Dicentra cucullaria) of eastern U.S., having peculiar double-spurred white flowers. See Illust. of Dicentra
Syn. -- Dicentra cucullaria. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a hardy deciduous American vine (Aristolochia durior) having large, heart-shaped leaves and bearing brownish-purple flowers which have their calyx tubes curved like the bowl of a tobacco pipe. Formerly classified as Aristolochia Sipho.
Syn. -- pipe vine, Aristolochia macrophylla, Aristolochia durior. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OF. escusson, F. écusson, from OF. escu shield, F. écu. See Esquire, Scutcheon. ] 1. (Her.) The surface, usually a shield, upon which bearings are marshaled and displayed. The surface of the escutcheon is called the field, the upper part is called the chief, and the lower part the base (see Chiff, and Field.). That side of the escutcheon which is on the right hand of the knight who bears the shield on his arm is called dexter, and the other side sinister. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The two sides of an escutcheon are respectively designated as dexter and sinister, as in the cut, and the different parts or points by the following names: A, Dexter chief point; B, Middle chief point; C, Sinister chief point; D, Honor or color point; E, Fesse or heart point; F, Nombrill or navel point; G, Dexter base point; H, Middle base point; I, base point. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A marking upon the back of a cow's udder and the space above it (the perineum), formed by the hair growing upward or outward instead of downward. It is esteemed an index of milking qualities. C. L. Flint. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) That part of a vessel's stern on which her name is written. R. H. Dane, Jr. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Carp.) A thin metal plate or shield to protect wood, or for ornament, as the shield around a keyhole. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Zoöl.) The depression behind the beak of certain bivalves; the ligamental area. [ 1913 Webster ]

Escutcheon of pretense, an escutcheon used in English heraldry to display the arms of the bearer's wife; -- not commonly used unless she an heiress. Cf. Impalement. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having an escutcheon; furnished with a coat of arms or ensign. Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The jaws between which the hinder end of a carriage tongue is inserted. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. See Grudge. [ Obs. ] Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Hutted p. pr. & vb. n. Hutting. ] To place in huts; to live in huts; as, to hut troops in winter quarters. [ 1913 Webster ]

The troops hutted among the heights of Morristown. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. hucche, huche, hoche, F. huche, LL. hutica. ] 1. A chest, box, coffer, bin, coop, or the like, in which things may be stored, or animals kept; as, a grain hutch; a rabbit hutch. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A measure of two Winchester bushels. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mining) The case of a flour bolt. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mining) (a) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit. (b) A jig for washing ore. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bolting hutch,
Booby hutch, etc. See under Bolting, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Hutched p. pr. & vb. n. Hutching. ] 1. To hoard or lay up, in a chest. [ R. ] “She hutched the . . . ore.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mining) To wash (ore) in a box or jig. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A follower of John Hutchinson of Yorkshire, England, who believed that the Hebrew Scriptures contained a complete system of natural science and of theology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Her.) A small escutcheon borne within a shield. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Catechu. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Goldbeating) The packet of vellum leaves in which the gold is first beaten into thin sheets. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. D. mutse a cap, G. mütze. Cf. Amice a cape. ] The close linen or muslin cap of an old woman. [ Prov. Eng. & Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A liquid measure equal to four gills, or an imperial pint. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Hind. nāch, fr. Skr. n&rsdot_;tya dance. ] An entertainment consisting chiefly of dancing by professional dancing (or Nautch) girls. [ India ]
Syn. -- nauch. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An instrument for cracking nuts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) (a) A European bird (Nucifraga caryocatactes), allied to the magpie and crow. Its color is dark brown, spotted with white. It feeds on nuts, seeds, and insects. (b) The American, or Clarke's, nutcracker (Picicorvus Columbianus) of Western North America. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To surpass in canting. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. Sw. utkasta to cast out. ] Cast out; degraded. “Outcast, rejected.” Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who is cast out or expelled; an exile; one driven from home, society, or country; hence, often, a degraded person; a vagabond. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Lord . . . gathereth together the outcasts of Israel. Ps. cxlvii. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A quarrel; a contention. [ Scot. ] Jamieson. [ 1913 Webster ]