Dictionary entry

Bottony

Webster's Dictionary 1913

{ Bot″ton‐y (�), Bot″to‐né (�), } a. [F. boutonné, fr. boutonner to bud, button.] (Her.) Having a bud or button, or a kind of trefoil, at the end; furnished with knobs or buttons.

Cross bottony(Her.), a cross having each arm terminating in three rounded lobes, forming a sort of trefoil.