Apart from, except (for), excluding.
Everyone but Father left early.
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(obsolete, outside, Scotland) Outside of.
I like everything but that.
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(chiefly, _, literary, or, poetic) Merely, only, just, no more than.
Christmas comes but once a year, so we can but wait till then.
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