Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bread, butter. / (idiomatic) That which is central or fundamental, as to one's business, survival, or income; a staple or cornerstone.

Said when two people walking together are temporarily separated by an obstacle in order to indicate that they belong together.

An unguent moisturizer designed to be applied to the body.

Nothing is achieved by empty words or flattery.

(architecture) A buttress that stands apart from the structure that it supports, and is connected to it by an arch (flyer).

(architecture) A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it. / (by extension) Anything that serves to support something; a prop. / (botany) A buttress-root.

To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress. / (figuratively, by extension) To support something or someone by supplying evidence.

A vase-shaped orange-fleshed hard winter squash, a cultivar of Cucurbita moschata.

The mangrove tree (Conocarpus erectus, family Combretaceae) a tropical and subtropical species. / The American sycamore or American plane tree (Platanus occidentalis, family Platanaceae).

(colloquial, simile) To move effortlessly and in an agile fashion.