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<hw>Boort</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Bort</er>.</def>

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<hw>Boose</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>b\'d3s</ets>, <ets>b\'d3sig</ets>; akin to Icel. <ets>b\'bess</ets>, Sw. <ets>b\'86s</ets>, Dan. <ets>baas</ets>, stall, G. <ets>banse</ets>, Goth. <ets>bansts</ets> barn, Skr. <ets>bh\'besas</ets> stall. \'fb252.]</ety> <def>A stall or a crib for an ox, cow, or other animal.</def> <mark>[Prov. Eng.]</mark>

<i>Halliwell.</i>

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<hw>Boose</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To drink excessively. See <er>Booze</er>.</def>

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<hw>Boos"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A toper; a guzzler. See <er>Boozer</er>.</def>

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<hw>Boost</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Boosted</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Boosting</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. <er>Boast</er>, <tt>v. i.</tt>]</ety> <def>To lift or push from behind (one who is endeavoring to climb); to push up; hence, to assist in overcoming obstacles, or in making advancement.</def> <mark>[Colloq. U. S.]</mark>

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<hw>Boost</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A push from behind, as to one who is endeavoring to climb; help.</def> <mark>[Colloq. U. S.]</mark>

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<hw>Boot</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>bot</ets>, <ets>bote</ets>, adbantage, amends, cure, AS. <ets>b<?/t</ets>; akin to Icel. <ets>b<?/t</ets>, Sw. <ets>bot</ets>, Dan. <ets>bod</ets>, Goth. <ets>b<?/ta</ets>, D. <ets>boete</ets>, G. <ets>busse</ets>; prop., a making good or better, from the root of E. <ets>better</ets>, adj. <?/255.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings relief.</def>

<blockquote>He gaf the sike man his <b>boote</b>. <i>Chaucer.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Thou art <b>boot</b> for many a bruise And healest many a wound. <i>Sir W. Scott.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Next her Son, our soul's best <b>boot</b>. <i>Wordsworth.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged.</def>

<blockquote>I'll give you <b>boot</b>, I'll give you three for one. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Profit; gain; advantage; use.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Then talk no more of flight, it is no <b>boot</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To boot</col>, <cd>in addition; over and above; besides; as a compensation for the difference of value between things bartered.</cd></cs>

<blockquote>Helen, to change, would give an eye to <b>boot</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>A man's heaviness is refreshed long before he comes to drunkenness, for when he arrives thither he hath but changed his heaviness, and taken a crime to <b>boot</b>. <i>Jer. Taylor.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Boot</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Booted</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Booting</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To profit; to advantage; to avail; -- generally followed by <i>it</i>; as, what <i>boots</i> it?</def>

<blockquote>What <b>booteth</b> it to others that we wish them well, and do nothing for them? <i>Hooker.</i></blockquote>