(a.) Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter.
(n.) An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other provisions are kept.
(n.) A room in some English colleges where liquors, fruit, and refreshments are kept for sale to the students.
(n.) A cellar in which butts of wine are kept.
Example Sentences:
(1) Talk rarely tends this way with an actor who’s found a good slot, more inclined as a result to play safe and spray out buttery praise in all directions, at co-stars, crew, studios, cheque-signers.
(2) There is also an excellent – and blissfully long – section on teatime: every possible cake and bun is here in all their sugary, buttery glory.
(3) Lined up alongside green, paper-skinned pistachios or buttery pecans, almonds – anaemic, lozenge-shaped, creamily bland – can seem rather dull.
(4) We're currently planning on going to LouMalnati's for the buttery crust August 21, 2013 Helen Knox (@lebowski2020) @GuardianTravel where is best place for evening rooftop bar view of Chicago, pref for mojitos?
(5) These buttery potato scones glisten on my plate like Grecian tiles.
(6) Just lovely acid-sweet jam and an explosion of buttery pastry.
(7) If you're going to opine about cheese, it's best to know your washed rind (stinky) from your bloomy rind (buttery).
(8) "The once-great Paul Gascoigne was already so good by 1988 that he could score in north London derbies sans footwear," says Mark Buttery.
(9) I was really spoilt for choice, torn between a lentil and watercress salad with an unusual citrussy dressing, and buttery purple sprouting broccoli on toast, but on a sunny day, thejameskitchen's lively, punchy green soup seemed so perfectly spring-like I couldn't resist.
(10) The sausages were naturally top drawer, but that glossy, buttery, roughly worked mash, properly seasoned and brilliantly laced with sweet caramelised onions, was awesome.
(11) You can see how that works with a classic Kiwi sauvignon blanc, which has a snappy, pungent, faintly sweaty greenness to match the same character in asparagus, but also has an incisive citric crispness to cut through the almost buttery richness of avocado.
(12) A breakfast of wild mushrooms and spinach on good sourdough delivered a persuasive hillock of buttery, thoroughly seasoned funghi.
(13) I serve mine for breakfast with a runny egg on top, or for dinner with buttery cabbage and succulent chicken thighs.
(14) The buttery sauce is flavoured with fennel and coriander seeds, orange zest and a good slug of Marsala.
(15) People favour risottos now, but before there was risotto, there was pilaff: buttery rice mixed with onions, garlic and tomatoes that have first been fried in olive oil.
(16) Unfortunately, where the homemade stuff is rich, tender and buttery, shop‑bought tends to be pallid and disappointingly bland.
(17) I opt for the buttery Brazilian Agua Preta latte with a shot of agave syrup.
(18) Likewise, the ASA decided against banning the third most complained about ad, also by Unilever, an animated TV and online ad for Flora Buttery margarine featuring two siblings wrestling.
(19) A year-long investigation “When I started out I had never worked one of these cases and had no idea what to do,” says Finley, an amiable man with a buttery Georgia drawl.
(20) It was a cheap thing, but a pleasingly buttery colour with knobbly legs around which I used to curl my bare feet when eating breakfast.
Oily
Definition:
(superl.) Consisting of oil; containing oil; having the nature or qualities of oil; unctuous; oleaginous; as, oily matter or substance.
(superl.) Covered with oil; greasy; hence, resembling oil; as, an oily appearance.
(1) Wistar rats were infected by injection of 0.05 ml of a dense oily suspension of Staphylococcus aureus into the posterior thigh muscles of the hind leg.
(2) Nutritionists recommend we consume two portions a week of fish, including one of oily fish such as mackerel, herring and tuna.
(3) Our experience with these three patients, plus the two previously reported, suggest that two conditions must be present for oily material to enter the ventricular system through the outlets of the fourth ventricle: first, there must be a reversal of bulk flow of cerebrospinal fluid; second, the oily material must have a specific gravity less than that of cerebrospinal fluid.
(4) One group ate a diet high in saturated fat, salt and sugar, and low in fibre, oily fish and fruit and vegetables.
(5) Incubation of blood neutrophils with uterine flushings collected from ovariectomised mares treated with oestradiol, stimulated migration under agarose, whereas flushings from mares treated with progesterone or oily vehicle, inhibited migration.
(6) This characteristic of the oily contrast medium has been utilized for regional targeting of chemotherapy in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma, which has been termed "lipiodolization".
(7) CT scan and gamma camera radiograph confirmed that the oily contrast material or I-131 radioactivity accumulated selectively in the tumor over a long period.
(8) Of course we depend on oil companies because there is no other work.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Canals full of oily water created during the cleanup process.
(9) The previous strict separation between water soluble, ionised media for the lumbal canal and oily media for the lumbosacral junction as well as the thoracic and cervical canal is no longer necessary.
(10) The many factors which affect absorption rate are discussed and it is suggested that preparations which depend on an oily gel to delay absorption add an avoidable factor to the list of variables which may play an important part in producing the significant differences in serum levels commonly reported after the use of PAM preparations.
(11) The figure includes around 29,000 deaths hastened by inhaling minute particles of oily, unburnt soot emitted by all petrol engines, and an estimated 23,500 by the invisible but toxic gas NO 2 emitted by diesel engines.
(12) Mackerel, an oily fish packed with Omega 3, has been championed by celebrity chefs such as Guardian writer Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, who in his Channel 4 Fish Fight programme persuaded sceptical consumers to eat his mackerel baps.
(13) The oily x-ray contrast medium persisted in the tumours over several weeks or months.
(14) "Lipiodol-Ultra-Fluid" an oily contrast medium which has used in experiments with minipigs can be radiologically and histologically demonstrated in nodes for months.
(15) Similar biological activities were obtained for oily and dry preparations of the same forms of alpha-tocopheryl acetate.
(16) The introduction of an oily retinylacetate solution into the fistula was attended both by an increase of the retinylpalmitate content in the blood plasma and the appearance therein of the retinyl-palmitat-hydrolase activity.
(17) Successful entrapment was achieved with the following conditions: (1) an alkaline water phase, (2) addition of fatty acid salt in the oily phase, and (3) addition of a water-miscible solvent in the oily phase.
(18) According to the British Heart Foundation, many doctors now prescribe fish oil supplements to reduce blood fats, although the BHF also recommends eating more oily fish.
(19) Forty-one CT sialograms were performed in 35 patients using acinar glandular filling with oily contrast material.
(20) Triglyceride is the major lipid class in most of these fishes with oily bones (74.1-93.7% as per cent lipid); cholesterol and phospholipid were two other lipid classes in the bones.