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buttons
(encz) | buttons,bobky n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
buttons
(encz) | buttons,tlačítka n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
Buttons
(gcide) | Buttons \But"tons\, n.
A boy servant, or page, -- in allusion to the buttons on his
livery. [Colloq.] --Dickens.
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golden buttons
(encz) | golden buttons, n: |
pop your buttons
(encz) | pop your buttons, |
push the right buttons
(encz) | push the right buttons, |
sheep buttons
(encz) | sheep buttons,bobky Zdeněk Brož |
Buttons
(gcide) | Buttons \But"tons\, n.
A boy servant, or page, -- in allusion to the buttons on his
livery. [Colloq.] --Dickens.
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Quaker buttons
(gcide) | Quaker \Quak"er\, n.
1. One who quakes.
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2. One of a religious sect founded by George Fox, of
Leicestershire, England, about 1650, -- the members of
which call themselves Friends. They were called Quakers,
originally, in derision. See Friend, n., 4.
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Fox's teaching was primarily a preaching of
repentance . . . The trembling among the listening
crowd caused or confirmed the name of Quakers given
to the body; men and women sometimes fell down and
lay struggling as if for life. --Encyc. Brit.
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3. (Zool.)
(a) The nankeen bird.
(b) The sooty albatross.
(c) Any grasshopper or locust of the genus Edipoda; --
so called from the quaking noise made during flight.
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Quaker buttons. (Bot.) See Nux vomica.
Quaker gun, a dummy cannon made of wood or other material;
-- so called because the sect of Friends, or Quakers, hold
to the doctrine, of nonresistance.
Quaker ladies (Bot.), a low American biennial plant
(Houstonia c[ae]rulea), with pretty four-lobed corollas
which are pale blue with a yellowish center; -- also
called bluets, and little innocents.
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billy buttons
(wn) | billy buttons
n 1: any of various plants of the genus Craspedia grown for
their downy foliage and globose heads of golden flowers;
Australia and New Zealand |
brass buttons
(wn) | brass buttons
n 1: South African herb with golden-yellow globose flower heads;
naturalized in moist areas along coast of California;
cultivated as an ornamental [syn: brass buttons, {Cotula
coronopifolia}] |
golden buttons
(wn) | golden buttons
n 1: common perennial aromatic herb native to Eurasia having
buttonlike yellow flower heads and bitter-tasting pinnate
leaves sometimes used medicinally [syn: tansy, {golden
buttons}, scented fern, Tanacetum vulgare] |
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