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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&?;ti 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, That such a king should play bopeep, And go the fools among. 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.