1.  butter(n = noun.food) - an edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use;
is a kind of food, solid food, dairy product
has particulars: stick, clarified butter, drawn butter, beurre noisette, brown butter, lemon butter, meuniere butter, yak butter
Derived forms verb butter₁, adjective buttery₂, adjective butyraceous₁

2.  butter(n = noun.person) - a fighter who strikes the opponent with his head;
is a kind of battler, belligerent, combatant, fighter, scrapper
Derived form verb butt₂

   butter(v = verb.contact) - spread butter on; "butter bread"
is one way to cover
Derived form noun butter₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

1.  An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning. [1913 Webster]

2.  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. [1913 Webster]

1.  To cover or spread with butter. [1913 Webster]
"I know what's what. I know on which side
My bread is buttered." [1913 Webster]

2.  To increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game. Johnson. [1913 Webster]

   One who, or that which, butts. [1913 Webster]

butter, n. & v.
--n.
1 a a pale yellow edible fatty substance made by churning cream and used as a spread or in cooking. b a substance of a similar consistency or appearance (peanut butter).
2 excessive flattery.
--v.tr. spread, cook, or serve with butter (butter the bread; buttered carrots).

Idiom:
butter-and-eggs any of several plants having two shades of yellow in the flower, e.g. toadflax. butter-bean
1 the flat, dried, white lima bean.
2 a yellow-podded bean. butter-cream (or -icing) a mixture of butter, icing sugar, etc. used as a filling or a topping for a cake. butter-fingers colloq. a clumsy person prone to drop things. butter-knife a blunt knife used for cutting butter at table. butter muslin a thin, loosely-woven cloth with a fine mesh, orig. for wrapping butter.
butter-nut
1 a N. American tree, Juglans cinerea.
2 the oily nut of this tree. butter up colloq. flatter excessively. look as if butter wouldn't melt in one's mouth seem demure or innocent, probably deceptively.

Etymology:
OE butere f. L butyrum f. Gk bouturon

N  flattery, adulation, gloze, blandishment, blandiloquence, cajolery, fawning, wheedling, captation, coquetry, obsequiousness, sycophancy, flunkeyism, toadeating, tuft- hunting, snobbishness, incense, honeyed words, flummery, bunkum, buncombe, blarney, placebo, butter, soft soap, soft sawder, rose water, voice of the charmer, mouth honor, lip homage, euphemism, unctuousness, flattering, adulatory, mealy-mouthed, honey-mouthed, honeyed, smooth, smooth-tongued, soapy, oily, unctuous, blandiloquent, specious, fine-spoken, fair spoken, plausible, servile, sycophantic, fulsome, courtierly, courtier-like, ad captandum.

VB  flatter, praise to the skies, puff, wheedle, cajole, glaver, coax, fawn upon, faun upon, humor, gloze, soothe, pet, coquet, slaver, butter, jolly, bespatter, beslubber, beplaster, beslaver, lay it on thick, overpraise, earwig, cog, collogue, truckle to, pander to, pandar to, suck up to, kiss the ass of, pay court to, court, creep into the good graces of, curry favor with, hang on the sleeve of, fool to the top of one's bent, lick the dust, lay the flattering unction to one's soul, gild the pill, make things pleasant, overestimate, exaggerate.

N  softness, pliableness, flexibility, pliancy, pliability, sequacity, malleability, ductility, tractility, extendibility, extensibility, plasticity, inelasticity, flaccidity, laxity, penetrability, clay, wax, butter, dough, pudding, alumina, argil, cushion, pillow, feather bed, down, padding, wadding, foam, mollification, softening, soft, tender, supple, pliant, pliable, flexible, flexile, lithe, lithesome, lissom, limber, plastic, ductile, tractile, tractable, malleable, extensile, sequacious, inelastic, aluminous, remollient, yielding, flabby, limp, flimsy, doughy, spongy, penetrable, foamy, cushiony, flaccid, flocculent, downy, edematous, oedematous, medullary, argillaceous, mellow, soft as butter, soft as down, soft as silk, yielding as wax, tender as chicken.

N  oil, fat, butter, cream, grease, tallow, suet, lard, dripping exunge, blubber, glycerin, stearin, elaine, oleagine, soap, soft soap, wax, cerement, paraffin, spermaceti, adipocere, petroleum, mineral, mineral rock, mineral crystal, mineral oil, vegetable oil, colza oil, olive oil, salad oil, linseed oil, cottonseed oil, soybean oil, nut oil, animal oil, neat's foot oil, train oil, ointment, unguent, liniment, aceite, amole, Barbados tar, fusel oil, grain oil, rape oil, seneca oil, hydrate of amyl, ghee, heating oil, #2 oil, No, 2 oil, distillate, residual oils, kerosene, jet fuel, gasoline, naphtha, stearin.

anchovy butter, apple butter, bercy butter, bread and butter, bread and butter pickle, brown butter, butter and eggs, butter bean, butter churn, butter cookie, butter daisy, butter dish, butter knife, butter up, clarified butter, cocoa butter, colbert butter, drawn butter, garlic butter, lemon butter, lobster butter, meuniere butter, nut butter, onion butter, peanut butter, pimento butter, shrimp butter, snail butter, witches' butter, yak butter