[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["the fatty portion of milk, separating as a soft whitish or yellowish solid when milk or cream is agitated or churned.", "this substance, processed for cooking and table use.", "any of various other soft spreads for bread:apple butter; peanut butter.", "any of various substances of butterlike consistency, as various metallic chlorides, and certain vegetable oils solid at ordinary temperatures."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to put butter on or in; spread or grease with butter.", "to apply a liquefied bonding material to (a piece or area), as mortar to a course of bricks.", "Metalworking.to cover (edges to be welded together) with a preliminary surface of the weld metal."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb phrase", "List Items": ["Informal.to flatter someone in order to gain a favor:He suspected that they were buttering him up when everyone suddenly started being nice to him."]}]