Boot

boot, n. a covering for the foot and lower part of the leg generally made of leather: an old instrument of torture for the legs a box or receptacle in a coich n.pl. the servant in a — hotel that cleans the boots v to put on boots. [Fr. botte, a butt, or a boot, from O. Ger. buten a cask. See Bottle. Butt,] — Boot, bO , v to profit or advantage » advantage. profit. —To Boot, in addition [A S hot, compensation, amends, whence betan, to amend, to make Better Booth. b£5Bth, a hut or temporary erection formed of slight materials |lee buth; Ger. butic; also Slav, and Celt as Gael both, hut.) Bootjack, bSht'jak, u, an instrument for taking off boots [Boot and Jack.] Bootlesa, bofit'les, ndj w ithout boot or profit usele —adv. Bootle ly.—n Boot'le nesB. Booty, bGOt'i, spoil taken in war or by lorce plunder Tli-e byti, share —byta, to divide Bo-peep, bO-pep', n, a game among children in which one peeps from behind something and cries ‘Bo.' Boracic, bO-ias'ik, adj of or relating to borax. — Boracic acid, an acid obtained by di olving borax, and also found native in mineral springs in Italy. Borax, bO'raks, a mineral salt used for soldering and also in medicine. [Fr — Ar. biiftuj Border, bord'6r, «. the edge or margin ot anything the march or boundary of a country a flower-bed in a garden. - v i to approach to be — adjacent v.t. to make or adorn with a border to bound. IFr. bord, bordure from loot of Board] Borderer, bord'er-er, one who dwells on the border of a country. Bore, b(5r, v.t to pierce so as to form a "hole: to weary or annoy.—«. a hole made by boring the size of the cavity of a gun a person or thing that wearies. [A.S. bon an to bore, from bor a borer Ger. bokren allied to L foro, to bore, Gr. pharynx the gullet.] Bore, bOr, did bear, pa. of Bear. Bore, bor, «. a tidal flood winch rushes with gie at force into the mouths of certain rivers. [Ice bdra a wave or swell, from root of to Bear or Boreal, bO're-al, ad/, pertaining to the north or the north wind. Boreae, b