boot tree (bottre)

An instrument consisting of two wooden blocks, constituting a front and a rear portion, which together form the shape of the leg and foot, and are inserted into a boot and then forced apart by a wedge for the purpose of stretching it. = booty (bö'ti), n.; pl. booties (-tiz). [Early mod. E. also bootie, boty, botie, When he reckons that he has gotten a booty, he has only caught a Tartar. Sir R. L'Estrange. 2. That which is seized by violence and robbery. So triumph thieves upon their conquer'd booty . Shak ., 3 Hen. VI., i. 4. 3. A prize; gain: without reference to its being taken by force. I have spread the nets o' the law, to catch rich booties , And they come fluttering in. Fletcher , Spanish Curate, iii. 4. Flowers growing in large numbers afford a rich booty to the bees, and are conspicuous from a distance. Darwin, Cro and Self Fertilisation, p. 434. family Bopyrida. Bopyridæ (bo-pir'i-dē), n. pl. [NL., segmented distinctly, and furnished with eyes. There are without eyes, while the much smaller male is elongated, several genera besides Bopyrus, the typical genus, as lone, Liriope , Gyge , Phryxus . Bopyrus (bo-pir us), n. [NL.] A genus of isopods, typical of the family Bopyrida . B. squill arum , a parasite of other crustaceans, is an example. bora (bō'rä), n. [It., etc., prob. dial. (Venetian, Milanese, etc.) form of bore a, north wind, Boreas, confused with Illyrian and Dalmatian bura, Turk, bora, Serv. Bulg. bura, OBulg. Ru . bury a, Pol. burza, a storm, tempest, Lith. būris, a shower. Cf. borasco.] The name given on the coasts of the Adriatic sea to a violent dry wind blowing from a northeasterly direction. borable (bor'a-bl), a. [ Capable of being bored. [Rare.] borachiot (bō-rach'io), n. [Also written borra chio, borracho, borraccio, boraccio, etc., from Sp. or It.: Sp. Sp. borracha (= It. borraccia, later also borraccio ), a leathern wine-bottle, borracho, a drunkard, drunken, prob. out the Levant for holding wine or other liquor; a wine-skin (now the current name in English). It is made of the skin of a beast, most commonly that of a goat or hog, from which the most com been removed piecemeal, leaving the hide whole, except at the neck and the places where the limbs were. These openings are strongly sewed up, that at the neck being furnished with a leather tube. When used for carrying water, the borachio is hung with the mouth downward, so that the tube can be untied whenever nece ary, and any desired quantity be withdrawn. See cut under bottle. Two hundred loaves and two bottles (that is, two skins or borachios ) of wine. Delany , Life of David. Dead wine, that stinks of the borrachio , sup From a foul jack, or greasy maplecup? Dryden, tr. of Persius's Satires, v. 216. Hence-2. A drunkard, as if a mere wine bottle. How you stink of wine! Do you think my niece will ever endure such a borachio ? You're an absolute bora chio. Congreve, Way of the World, iv. 10. Bora us boracic (bō-ras'ik), a. [ United States it is made from the borax of Borax lake in California, by decomposing it with hydrochloric acid. Like borax, it is an efficient antiseptic. = E. bear1 .] Con boraciferous (bō-ra-sif'e-rus), a. [ The boraciferous basin of the Sultan Chair, near the Simaov River. Sci . Amer . Supp ., XXII. 9093.