1. To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut. [Written also but.] And Barnsdale there doth butt on Don's well-watered ground. Drayton.
2. To thrust the head forward; to strike by thrusting the head forward, as an ox or a ram. [See Butt, n.] A snow-white steer before thine altar led, Butts with his threatening brows. Dryden.
BUTT
Butt, v. t.
Defn: To strike by thrusting the head against; to strike with the
head.
Two harmless lambs are butting one the other. Sir H. Wotton.
BUTT Butt, n. Etym: [F. botte, boute, LL. butta. Cf. Bottle a hollow vessel.]
Defn: A large cask or vessel for wine or beer. It contains two hogsheads.
Note: A wine butt contains 126 wine gallons (= 105 imperial gallons, nearly); a beer butt 108 ale gallons (= about 110 imperial gallons).
BUTT
Butt, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The common English flounder.
BUTTE
Butte, n. Etym: [F. See Butt a bound.]