boot stretcher (botstrech"er)

ratus for stretching the uppers of boots and shoes. 629 To play booty, to join with confederates in order to victimize another player, and thus share in the plunder; hence, to play dishonestly; give an opponent the advantage at first in order to induce him to play for higher stakes, which he will lose. One thing alone remained to be lost-what he called his honour - which was already on the scent to play booty . Disraeli, Young Duke. Syn. 1. Plunder , etc. See pillage , n. booze, boose2 (böz), v . i .; pret. and pp. boozed , boosed , ppr. boozing, boosing. [A var., prob. orig. dial., of bouse , retaining the ME. pronunciation (ME. ou , pron. ö, now ou): see bouse , which is historically the normal form.] drink deeply, especially with a boon companion and to partial intoxication; guzzle liquor; tipple. Also bouse , bouze , bowse . He was a wild and roving lad, For ever in the alehouse boozing . m.] To Barham , In golds by Legends, I. 162. IMG:content-2335.png:[blocks in formation] a spree.