buttv. i.[OE. butten, OF. boter to push, F. bouter. See Butt an end, and cf. Boutade.]1. To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.()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.)v. t. To strike by thrusting the head against; to strike with the head.()Two harmless lambs are butting one the other. (Sir H. Wotton.)n.[F. botte, boute, LL. butta. Cf. Bottle a hollow vessel.] A large cask or vessel for wine or beer. It contains two hogsheads.()()n. (Zol.) The common English flounder.()n.[F. See Butt a bound.] A detached low mountain, or high rising abruptly from the general level of the surrounding plain; -- applied to peculiar elevations in the Rocky Mountain region.()The creek . . . passes by two remarkable buttes of red conglomerate. (Ruxton.)()