The butyraceous gold in tubs and huge lumps displayed in these stalls looks as though it was precipitated from milk squeezed from Channel Island cows, those fawn-colored, fairest of dairy animals. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866] Reference
The butyraceous oil produced by the distillation of roses for making rose-water in this country is valueless as a perfume; and the real otto was scarcely known in British commerce before the present century. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881] Reference
The “five products of the cow” are ignored, as in the western hemisphere of yore: one of the most useful, however, is produced by the Nje or Njeve, a towering butyraceous tree, differing from that which bears the Shea butternut. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo] Reference
It didn't help that the strangely butyraceous pool of oil that had suddenly appeared in the cardboard nacho holder was soaking through my pants. From Wordnik.com. [An Exploration of Portland Oregon Food and Drink] Reference
"five products of the cow" are ignored, as in the western hemisphere of yore: one of the most useful, however, is produced by the Nje or Njeve, a towering butyraceous tree, differing from that which bears the Shea butternut. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1] Reference
Let cows receive through winter nearly as large a proportion of nutritive matter as is contained in the clover, lucerne, and fresh grass which they eat in summer, and, no matter in what precise substance or mixture that matter be contained, they will yield a winter's produce of milk quite as rich in caseine and butyraceous ingredients as the summer's produce, and far more ample in quantity than almost any dairyman with old-fashioned notions would imagine to be possible. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference
February 27th, 2009 at 12:02 pm butyraceous. From Wordnik.com. [May I have a word? « knitnut.net] Reference
They contain a pungent butyraceous volatile oil. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
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