That dreadful butchering of one another.
Addison.
Butch"er*li*ness (&?;), n. Butchery quality.
Butch"er*ly, a. Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell. "The victim of a butcherly murder." D. Webster.
What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly,
This deadly quarrel daily doth beget!
Shak.
Butch"er's broom` (&?;). (Bot.) A genus of plants (Ruscus); esp. R. aculeatus, which has large red berries and leaflike branches. See Cladophyll.
Butch"er*y (&?;), n. [OE. bocherie shambles, fr. F. boucherie. See Butcher, n.] 1. The business of a butcher. [Obs.]
2. Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter. Shak.
The perpetration of human butchery.
Prescott.