buter and butere - Middle English Compendium

(a) Butter; bred and ~, ~ and bred; (b) ingredient in medicines; cure for diseases, venom, etc.; ~ i-washed, washing ~, purified or refined butter; (c) ~ of Mai, Maies ~, unsalted butter made in May and preserved for medicinal use [see Mai-buter(e]; clene ~, pure or refined butter; fest ~, feast butter; fresh ~, neue ~, newly-churned butter; mersh ~, ?March butter [cp. ~ of Mai]; swete ~, ?unsalted butter; (d) ~ maker, a maker of butter; ~ man, a maker or seller of butter; ~ mark, ?a stamp for marking a sign or pattern on butter; ~ milk, buttermilk; ~ monger, a seller of butter; ~ shop, place where butter is sold.