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Definition of Button shell

Button shell
Button But"ton, n. [OE. boton, botoun, F. bouton button, bud, prop. something pushing out, fr. bouter to push. See Butt an end.] 1. A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass. 2. A catch, of various forms and materials, used to fasten together the different parts of dress, by being attached to one part, and passing through a slit, called a buttonhole, in the other; -- used also for ornament. 3. A bud; a germ of a plant. --Shak. 4. A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door. 5. A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion. Button hook, a hook for catching a button and drawing it through a buttonhole, as in buttoning boots and gloves. Button shell (Zo["o]l.), a small, univalve marine shell of the genus Rotella. Button snakeroot. (Bot.) (a) The American composite genus Liatris, having rounded buttonlike heads of flowers. (b) An American umbelliferous plant with rigid, narrow leaves, and flowers in dense heads. Button tree (Bot.), a genus of trees (Conocarpus), furnishing durable timber, mostly natives of the West Indies. To hold by the button, to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; to buttonhole.

Meaning of Button shell from wikipedia

- extensive button archive, and in Gurnee, Illinois, at The Button Room. Clam s**** used for making buttons Hand-painted Satsuma ware self-shank button Wedgwood...
- The Windows s**** is the graphical user interface for the Microsoft Windows operating system. Its readily identifiable elements consist of the desktop...
- every press of the fire button S****: The s****, sometimes referred to as the Super S****, will shoot a single line of s**** with no spread. A wider...
- cats' teeth s**** and pink button s****. Naturally-occurring, beachworn, cone s**** "tops" (the broken-off spire of the s****, which often has a hole worn...
- etc.; glossy black front; shiny guide button) with the matte black s**** replaced with a satin silver s****, which also features a custom design based...
- classic S**** is a computer program for Microsoft Windows that provides user interface elements intended to restore familiar features from past versions...
- used by the National Button Society, USA.) bone horn horsehair ivory leather pearl s**** (Images of buttons made from all the s**** types listed below)...
- turned off by default in Windows XP and Windows 7. The Windows s**** places a taskbar button on the taskbar whenever an application creates an unowned window:...
- Pusula radians, the "radiant button s****"or "radiating trivia", is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Triviidae, the...
- GNOME S**** is the graphical s**** of the GNOME desktop environment starting with version 3, which was released on April 6, 2011. It provides basic functions...