buttonhole

A hole through which a button is pushed to secure a garment or some part of one.

A flower worn in a buttonhole for decoration.

A flower worn in a buttonhole for decoration.

A small slot-like cut or incision, made for example by an accident with the scalpel.

The usual cause of conjunctival buttonholes is penetration of the tissue by the tip of a sharp instrument […]

The mouth, nose or eyes of a tiny appearance.

To detain (a person) in conversation against their will.

He backed Mr. Lykins against an iron fence, buttonholed him, fastened him with his eye, like the ancient mariner, and proceeded to unfold his narrative as placidly and peacefully as if we were all stretched comfortably in a blossomy summer meadow instead of being persecuted by a wintry midnight tempest: […]

Hiro and Chuck grab the closest thing they can find to a corner table. Hiro buttonholes a waiter and surreptitiously orders a pitcher of Pub Special, mixed half and half with nonalcoholic beer.

To cut one or more buttonholes (in).

To sew by buttonhole stitch.

To make a small slot-like incision in (intentionally or unintentionally).

To apply a flowery formation in.

What tree of more pulchritude and symmetricalness could you nominate for roadside, street and public park planting than the graceful linden? We should possess more of the spirit which predominates in this direction in the crowning gem of America’s constitutionality—the City of Washington, D. C. ‘‘Unter den Lindens’’ would not only be found in Germany, but in all the large cities of our grand and glorious United States. Washington has her Unter den Linden in the Massachussetts^([sic]) avenue. Her North and South Capital streets are buttonholed with the stately tulips, which are fit emblems to thus adorn the meridian of the United States.