but

but has 25 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 3.

Definitions

• adv. & conj.. Except with; unless with; without.
• adv. & conj.. Except; besides; save.
• adv. & conj.. Excepting or excluding the fact that; save that; were it not that; unless; -- elliptical, for but that.
• adv. & conj.. Otherwise than that; that not; -- commonly, after a negative, with that.
• adv. & conj.. Only; solely; merely.
• adv. & conj.. On the contrary; on the other hand; only; yet; still; however; nevertheless; more; further; -- as connective of sentences or clauses of a sentence, in a sense more or less exceptive or adversative; as, the House of Representatives passed the bill, but the Senate dissented; our wants are many, but quite of another kind.
• prep., adv. & conj.. The outer apartment or kitchen of a two-roomed house; -- opposed to ben, the inner room.
• n.. A limit; a boundary.
• n.. The end; esp. the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in distinction from the sharp, end. See 1st Butt.
• v. i.. See Butt, v., and Abut, v.
• v. t.. A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
• v. t.. The thicker end of anything. See But.