Definition of Butterfly

Butterfly
In the context of equities, a firm with two divisions may split into two companies and issue original shareholders two shares (one in each of the new companies) for every old share they have.

Butterfly
(n.)
A general name for the numerous species of diurnal Lepidoptera.
  

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Noun
1. diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings
(hypernym) lepidopterous insect, lepidopteron, lepidopteran
(hyponym) nymphalid, nymphalid butterfly, brush-footed butterfly, four-footed butterfly
2. a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down
(synonym) butterfly stroke
(hypernym) swimming stroke
(part-meronym) dolphin kick

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Verb
1. flutter like a butterfly
(hypernym) flit, flutter, fleet, dart
2. cut and spread open, as in preparation for cooking; "butterflied shrimp"
(hypernym) unfold, spread, spread out, open
(classification) cooking, cookery, preparation
3. talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions; "The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries"; "My husband never flirts with other women"
(synonym) chat up, flirt, dally, coquet, coquette, romance, philander, mash
(hypernym) talk, speak
(hyponym) wanton

Butterfly
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butterfly
\but"ter*fly`\ (&?;), n.; pl. butterflies (&?;). [perh. from the color of a yellow species. as. buter-flēge, buttor-fle?ge; cf. g. butterfliege, d. botervlieg. see butter, and fly.] (zo?l.) a general name for the numerous species of diurnal lepidoptera.
note: [see illust. under aphrodite.]

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 tortoiseshell butterfly 
 troilus butterfly 
 nettle butterfly 
 butterfly weed 
 cabbage butterfly 
 butterfly fish 
 butterfly pea 
 elm butterfly 
 lycaenid butterfly 
 peacock butterfly 
 tortoise-shell butterfly 
 butterfly collector 
 thistle butterfly 
 spirit butterfly 
 comma butterfly 
 butterfly lily 
 leaf butterfly 
 atlanta butterfly 
 asclepias butterfly 
 butterfly shell 
 lesser butterfly orchid 
 milkweed butterfly 
 butterfly valve 
 butterfly ray 

butterfly
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Eilier
Eilier = n. the butterfly

Gloen-byw
Gloen-byw = n. a butterfly

Ilir
Ilir = n. butterfly

Pilia
Pilia = n. a moth, a butterfly

Butterfly
To see a butterfly among flowers and green grasses, indicates prosperity and fair attainments.

To see them flying about, denotes news from absent friends by letter, or from some one who has seen them. To a young woman, a happy love, culminating in a life union.
  

Chuang Tzu
Once I dreamed I was a butterfly, and now I no longer know whether I am Chuang Tzu, who dreamed I was a butterfly, or whether I am a butterfly dreaming that I am Chuang Tzu.
  

Butterfly
Butterfly The butterfly, because of its short life, its physical beauty, and its fluttering from flower to flower seeking nectar, has among many ancient peoples been regarded as an emblem of the impermanent, unstable characteristics of the lower human soul. For it is through the merely human soul that the person learns and gathers into the reincarnating ego the nectar or honey of wisdom through experience. Likewise the psyche in occult Greek philosophy was the organ or vehicle of the nous, the higher ego or reimbodying monad. The caterpillar lives its period, making for itself a chrysalis, which after a stage of dormancy is broken by the emerging butterfly. This suggests the idea of the less becoming the greater, of an earthy entity becoming aerial. These thoughts led the ancient Greeks to use the butterfly as a symbol of the human soul (psyche); and in their mythology Psyche was in consequence represented in art with butterfly wings.
This process of nature is applied to humanity (SD 1:159): its peregrinations through the first three rounds is likened to a series of imbodiments through the caterpillar and chrysalis stages; only during the fourth round does mankind attain its first status of true humanity, more particularly during the latter part of the third root-race when human mind is enlightened by the manasaputras.

Butterfly
Inversion element which turns riders over twice, first in a sidewinder immediately followed by a diving loop.

Butterflies
Where the River Narog flowed into Sirion, there was a lush valley filled with willow trees, a place understandably known as the Land of Willows, or Nan-tathren in Elvish. According to the legends of the Lost Tales, this was the place were butterflies of all kinds came into the world, and they remained common there during the First Age. In Tolkien's better known works, though butterflies are mentioned several times, they are only actually seen on one occasion: Bilbo finds them fluttering above the treetops of Mirkwood in The Hobbit. Like other creatures that lived in that dark wood, its butterflies had turned completely black in colour, and so that variety is referred to as the 'black emperor'.
The Quenya word for 'butterfly' was wilwarin, a name the Elves also gave to a constellation of stars. The identity of this constellation is not completely certain, but Christopher Tolkien suggests that the northern 'W'-shaped group of stars that we know as Cassiopeia was the Elvish constellation of the Butterfly.

Butterfly (Butterfly Kit)
Assorted nets, silks, solids, and grifflons which are used for light control; usually 5' x 5', or 6' x 6' frame size. Commonly a 12' x 12' or 20' x 20' is called a butterfly kit, however, it they should be called an overhead kit. (Grip)

Butterfly
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Butterfly
Any of various insects of the order Lepidoptera. Butterflies have slender bodies, knobbed antennae, and four broad, usually colorful wings. Most butterflies are day-flying insects. (see also: Moth)

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