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Boost (b, n. A push from behind, as to one who is endeavoring to climb; help. [Colloq. U. S.]

Boot (b, n. [OE. bot, bote, advantage, amends, cure, AS. b; akin to Icel. b, Sw. bot, Dan. bod, Goth. b, D. boete, G. busse; prop., a making good or better, from the root of E. better, adj. 1. Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings relief.

He gaf the sike man his boote.
Chaucer.

Thou art boot for many a bruise
Sir W. Scott.

Next her Son, our soul's best boot.
Wordsworth.

2. That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged.

I'll give you boot, I'll give you three for one.
Shak.

3. Profit; gain; advantage; use. [Obs.]

Then talk no more of flight, it is no boot.
Shak.

To boot, in addition; over and above; besides; as a compensation for the difference of value between things bartered.

Helen, to change, would give an eye to boot.
Shak.

A man's heaviness is refreshed long before he comes to drunkenness, for when he arrives thither he hath but changed his heaviness, and taken a crime to boot.
Jer. Taylor.

Boot, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Booted; p. pr. & vb. n. Booting.] 1. To profit; to advantage; to avail; -- generally followed by it; as, what boots it?

What booteth it to others that we wish them well, and do nothing for them?
Hooker.

What subdued
boots to know.
Byron.

What boots to us your victories?
Southey.

2. To enrich; to benefit; to give in addition. [Obs.]

And I will boot thee with what gift beside
Shak.

Boot, n. [OE. bote, OF. bote, F. botte, LL. botta; of uncertain origin.] 1. A covering for the foot and lower part of the leg, ordinarily made of leather.

2. An instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to extort confessions, particularly in Scotland.

So he was put to the torture, which in Scotland they call the boots; for they put a pair of iron boots close on the leg, and drive wedges between them and the leg.
Bp. Burnet.

3. A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach. [Obs.]

4. A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.

5. An apron or cover (of leather or rubber cloth) for the driving seat of a vehicle, to protect from rain and mud.

6. (Plumbing) The metal casing and flange fitted about a pipe where it passes through a roof.

Boot catcher, the person at an inn whose business it was to pull off boots and clean them. [Obs.] Swift. -- Boot closer, one who, or that which, sews the uppers of boots. -- Boot crimp, a frame or device used by bootmakers for drawing and shaping the body of a boot. -- Boot hook, a hook with a handle, used for pulling on boots. -- Boots and saddles (Cavalry Tactics), the trumpet call which is the first signal for mounted drill. -- Sly boots. See Slyboots, in the Vocabulary.

Boot, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Booted; p. pr. & vb. n. Booting.] 1. To put boots on, esp. for riding.

Coated and booted for it.
B. Jonson.

2. To punish by kicking with a booted foot. [U. S.]

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Boot, v. i. To boot one's self; to put on one's boots.

Boot, n. Booty; spoil. [Obs. or R.] Shak.

Boot"black` (, n. One who blacks boots.

Boot"ed (, a. 1. Wearing boots, especially boots with long tops, as for riding; as, a booted squire.

2. (Zo\'94l.) Having an undivided, horny, bootlike covering; -- said of the tarsus of some birds.

Boot*ee" (, n. A half boot or short boot.

\'d8Bo*\'94"tes (b, n. [L. Bootes, Gr. bow`ths herdsman, fr. boy^s, gen. boo`s, ox, cow.] (Astron.) A northern constellation, containing the bright star Arcturus.

Booth (b, n. [OE. bothe; cf. Icel. b, Dan. & Sw. bod, MHG. buode, G. bude, baude; from the same root as AS. b to dwell, E. boor, bower, be; cf. Bohem. bauda, Pol. buda, Russ. budka, Lith. buda, W. bwth, pl. bythod, Gael. buth, Ir. both.] 1. A house or shed built of boards, boughs, or other slight materials, for temporary occupation. Camden.

2. A covered stall or temporary structure in a fair or market, or at a polling place.

Boot"hale` (, v. t. & i. [Boot, for booty + hale.] To forage for booty; to plunder. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Boot"hose` (, n. 1. Stocking hose, or spatterdashes, in lieu of boots. Shak.

2. Hose made to be worn with boots, as by travelers on horseback. Sir W. Scott.

Booth"y (, n. See Bothy.

Boot"i*kin (, n. [Boot + -kin.] 1. A little boot, legging, or gaiter.

2. A covering for the foot or hand, worn as a cure for the gout. H. Walpole.

Boot"ing, n. Advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty. [Obs.] Sir. J. Harrington.

Boot"ing, n. 1. A kind of torture. See Boot, n., 2.

2. A kicking, as with a booted foot. [U. S.]

Boot"jack` (, n. A device for pulling off boots.

Boot"less (, a. [From Boot profit.] Unavailing; unprofitable; useless; without advantage or success. Chaucer.

I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers.
Shak.

-- Boot"less*ly, adv. -- Boot"less*ness, n.

Boot"lick` (, n. A toady. [Low, U. S.] Bartlett.

Boot"mak`er (, n. One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.

Boots (, n. A servant at a hotel or elsewhere, who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes.

Boot"top`ping (, n. 1. (Naut.) The act or process of daubing a vessel's bottom near the surface of the water with a mixture of tallow, sulphur, and resin, as a temporary protection against worms, after the slime, shells, etc., have been scraped off.

2. (Naut.) Sheathing a vessel with planking over felt.

Boot"tree` (, n. [Boot + tree wood, timber.] An instrument to stretch and widen the leg of a boot, consisting of two pieces, together shaped like a leg, between which, when put into the boot, a wedge is driven.

The pretty boots trimly stretched on boottrees.
Thackeray.

Boo"ty (, n. [Cf. Icel. b exchange, barter, Sw. byte barter, booty, Dan. bytte; akin to D. buit booty, G. beute, and fr. Icel. byta, Sw. byta, Dan. bytte, to distribute, exchange. The Scandinavian word was influenced in English by boot profit.] That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage. Milton.

To play booty, to play dishonestly, with an intent to lose; to allow one's adversary to win at cards at first, in order to induce him to continue playing and victimize him afterwards. [Obs.] L'Estrange.

Booze (, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Boozed (; p. pr. & vb. n. Boozing.] [D. buizen; akin to G. bausen, and perh. fr. D. buis tube, channel, bus box, jar.] To drink greedily or immoderately, esp. alcoholic liquor; to tipple. [Written also bouse, and boose.] Landor.

This is better than boozing in public houses.
H. R. Haweis.

Booze, n. A carouse; a drinking. Sir W. Scott.

Booz"er (, n. One who boozes; a toper; a guzzler of alcoholic liquors; a bouser.

Booz"y (, a. A little intoxicated; fuddled; stupid with liquor; bousy. [Colloq.] C. Kingsley.

Bo*peep" (, n. [Bo + peep.] The act of looking out suddenly, as from behind a screen, so as to startle some one (as by children in play), or of looking out and drawing suddenly back, as if frightened.

I for sorrow sung,
bopeep,
Shak.

Bor"a*ble (, a. Capable of being bored. [R.]

Bo*rach"te (, n. [Sp. borracha a leather bottle for wine, borracho drunk, fr. borra a lamb.] A large leather bottle for liquors, etc., made of the skin of a goat or other animal. Hence: A drunkard. [Obs.]

You're an absolute borachio.
Congreve.

Bo*rac"ic (, a. [Cf. F. boracique. See Borax.] Pertaining to, or produced from, borax; containing boron; boric; as, boracic acid.

Bo"ra*cite (, n. (Min.) A mineral of a white or gray color occurring massive and in isometric crystals; in composition it is a magnesium borate with magnesium chloride.

Bo"ra*cous (, a. (Chem.) Relating to, or obtained from, borax; containing borax.

Bor"age (, n. [OE. borage (cf. F. bourrache, It. borraggine, borrace, LL. borago, borrago, LGr. ), fr. LL. borra, F. bourre, hair of beasts, flock; so called from its hairy leaves.] (Bot.) A mucilaginous plant of the genus Borago (B. officinalis), which is used, esp. in France, as a demulcent and diaphoretic.

Bor"age*wort` (, n. Plant of the Borage family.

Bo*rag`i*na"ceous (, a. (Bot.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants (Boraginace\'91) which includes the borage, heliotrope, beggar's lice, and many pestiferous plants.

Bor`a*gin"e*ous (, a. (Bot.) Relating to the Borage tribe; boraginaceous.

Bor"a*mez (, n. See Barometz.

Bo"rate (, n. [From Boric.] (Chem.) A salt formed by the combination of boric acid with a base or positive radical.

Bo"rax (, n. [OE. boras, fr. F. borax, earlier spelt borras; cf. LL. borax, Sp. borraj; all fr. Ar. b, fr. Pers. b.] A white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors on porcelain, and as a soap. It occurs native in certain mineral springs, and is made from the boric acid of hot springs in Tuscany. It was originally obtained from a lake in Thibet, and was sent to Europe under the name of tincal. Borax is a pyroborate or tetraborate of sodium, Na2B4O7.10H2O.

Borax bead. (Chem.) See Bead, n., 3.

Bor"bo*rygm (, n. [F. borborygme, fr. Gr. , fr. to rumble in the bowels.] (Med.) A rumbling or gurgling noise produced by wind in the bowels. Dunglison.

Bord (, n. [See Board, n.] 1. A board; a table. [Obs.] Chaucer.

2. (Mining) The face of coal parallel to the natural fissures.

Bord (, n. See Bourd. [Obs.] Spenser.

Bord"age (, n. [LL. bordagium.] The base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his cottage.

Bord"ar (, n. [LL. bordarius, fr. borda a cottage; of uncertain origin.] A villein who rendered menial service for his cottage; a cottier.

The cottar, the bordar, and the laborer were bound to aid in the work of the home farm.
J. R. Green.

Bor*deaux" (, a. Pertaining to Bordeaux in the south of France. -- n. A claret wine from Bordeaux.

{ Bor"del (, Bor*del"lo (, } n. [F. bordel, orig. a little hut, OF. borde hut, cabin, of German origin, and akin to E. board, n. See Board, n.] A brothel; a bawdyhouse; a house devoted to prostitution. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

\'d8Bor`de*lais" (, a. [F.] Of or pertaining to Bordeaux, in France, or to the district around Bordeaux.

Bor"del*ler (, n. A keeper or a frequenter of a brothel. [Obs.] Gower.

Bor"der (, n. [OE. bordure, F. bordure, fr. border to border, fr. bord a border; of German origin; cf. MHG. borte border, trimming, G. borte trimming, ribbon; akin to E. board in sense 8. See Board, n., and cf. Bordure.] 1. The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.

Upon the borders of these solitudes.
Bentham.

In the borders of death.
Barrow.

2. A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of a country; a frontier district.

3. A strip or stripe arranged along or near the edge of something, as an ornament or finish.

4. A narrow flower bed.

Border land, land on the frontiers of two adjoining countries; debatable land; -- often used figuratively; as, the border land of science. -- The Border, The Borders, specifically, the frontier districts of Scotland and England which lie adjacent. -- Over the border, across the boundary line or frontier.

Syn. -- Edge; verge; brink; margin; brim; rim; boundary; confine.

Bor"der, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bordered (; p. pr. & vb. n. Bordering.] 1. To touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous or adjacent; -- with on or upon as, Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.

2. To approach; to come near to; to verge.

Wit which borders upon profaneness deserves to be branded as folly.
Abp. Tillotson.

Bor"der, v. t. 1. To make a border for; to furnish with a border, as for ornament; as, to border a garment or a garden.

2. To be, or to have, contiguous to; to touch, or be touched, as by a border; to be, or to have, near the limits or boundary; as, the region borders a forest, or is bordered on the north by a forest.

The country is bordered by a broad tract called the \'bdhot region.\'b8
Prescott.

Shebah and Raamah . . . border the sea called the Persian gulf.
Sir W. Raleigh.

3. To confine within bounds; to limit. [Obs.]

That nature, which contemns its origin,
bordered certain in itself.
Shak.

Bor"der*er (, n. One who dwells on a border, or at the extreme part or confines of a country, region, or tract of land; one who dwells near to a place or region.

Borderers of the Caspian.
Dyer.

Bord"land` (, n. [Bordar (or perh. bord a board) + land.] (O. Eng. Law) Either land held by a bordar, or the land which a lord kept for the maintenance of his board, or table. Spelman.

Bord"lode` (, n. [Bordar (or perh. bord a board) + lode leading.] (O. Eng. Law) The service formerly required of a tenant, to carry timber from the woods to the lord's house. Bailey. Mozley & W.

Bord"man (, n. [Bordar (or perh. bord a board) + man.] A bordar; a tenant in bordage.

{ Bord"rag (, Bord"ra`ging (, } n. [Perh. from OE. bord, for border + raging. Cf. Bodrage.] An incursion upon the borders of a country; a raid. [Obs.] Spenser.

Bord" serv`ice (. [Bordar (or perh. bord a board) + service.] (O. Eng. Law) Service due from a bordar; bordage.

Bor"dure (, n. [F. bordure. See Border, n.] (Her.) A border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged.

Bore (, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bored (; p. pr. & vb. n. Boring.] [OE. borien, AS. borian; akin to Icel. bora, Dan. bore, D. boren, OHG. por, G. bohren, L. forare, Gr. to plow, Zend bar. 1. To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument; to make a round hole in or through; to pierce; as, to bore a plank.

I'll believe as soon this whole earth may be bored.
Shak.

2. To form or enlarge by means of a boring instrument or apparatus; as, to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole.

Short but very powerful jaws, by means whereof the insect can bore, as with a centerbit, a cylindrical passage through the most solid wood.
T. W. Harris.

3. To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; as, to bore one's way through a crowd; to force a narrow and difficult passage through. \'bdWhat bustling crowds I bored.\'b8 Gay.

4. To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.

He bores me with some trick.
Shak.

Used to come and bore me at rare intervals.
Carlyle.

5. To befool; to trick. [Obs.]

I am abused, betrayed; I am laughed at, scorned,
bored, it seems.
Beau. & Fl.

Bore, v. i. 1. To make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool; as, to bore for water or oil (i. e., to sink a well by boring for water or oil); to bore with a gimlet; to bore into a tree (as insects).

2. To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns; as, this timber does not bore well, or is hard to bore.

3. To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.

They take their flight . . . boring to the west.
Dryden.