Boston

bos'ton, n. A game played T>y four persons, with two packs of cards, — introduced by French officers at Boston during the Revolutionary war. Botany, bofa-nT Science of the structure, cla ification, etc., of plants. [Gr. botane, plant, boskein, to feed, graze.] — Botanic, -ical, bo-tan'ik-al, a. Pert, to botany; relating to, or containing, plants. — Botan'ically, adv. — Botanist, bot'an-ist, n. One skilled in, etc. — Bot'anize, v. [botanized (-Tzd), -izing.] To seek for and investigate plants.