1. Resembling a button.
1597. Gerard, Herbal, I. x. § 2. 12. The buttonie flowers of Sea wormwood.
1862. All Y. Round, VII. 381. Buttony mushrooms.
2. Abounding in buttons.
1848. Thackeray, Van. Fair, lx. The buttony page. Ibid. (1856), Christm. Bks. (1872), 57. The buttoniest page in all the street.
1861. O. W. Holmes, Elsie V., vii. 65. The small youth … in a new jacket and trousers, buttony in front.
