Part 1283

<h1>Bootjack</h1> <Xpage=167>

<hw>Boot"jack`</hw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A device for pulling off boots.</def>

<h1>Bootless</h1> <Xpage=167>

<hw>Boot"less</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Boot</er> profit.]</ety> <def>Unavailing; unprofitable; useless; without advantage or success.</def>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<blockquote>I'll follow him no more with <b>bootless</b> prayers. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

-- <wordforms><wf>Boot"less*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- </wf>Boot"less*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Bootlick</h1> <Xpage=167>

<hw>Boot"lick`</hw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A toady.</def> <mark>[Low, U. S.]</mark>

<i>Bartlett.</i>

<h1>Bootmaker</h1> <Xpage=167>

<hw>Boot"mak`er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who makes boots.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>Boot"mak`ing</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Boots</h1> <Xpage=167>

<hw>Boots</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A servant at a hotel or elsewhere, who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes.</def>

<h1>Boottopping</h1> <Xpage=167>

<hw>Boot"top`ping</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>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.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>Sheathing a vessel with planking over felt.</def>

<h1>Boottree</h1> <Xpage=167>

<hw>Boot"tree`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Boot</ets> + <ets>tree</ets> wood, timber.]</ety> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>The pretty boots trimly stretched on <b>boottrees</b>. <i>Thackeray.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Booty</h1> <Xpage=167>

<hw>Boo"ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. Icel. <ets>b<?/ti</ets> exchange, barter, Sw. <ets>byte</ets> barter, booty, Dan. <ets>bytte</ets>; akin to D. <ets>buit</ets> booty, G. <ets>beute</ets>, and fr. Icel. <ets>byta</ets>, Sw. <ets>byta</ets>, Dan. <ets>bytte</ets>, to distribute, exchange. The Scandinavian word was influenced in English by <ets>boot</ets> profit.]</ety> <def>That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage.</def>

<i>Milton.</i>

<cs><col>To play booty</col>, <cd>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. <mark>[Obs.]</mark></cd></cs>

<i>L'Estrange.</i>

<h1>Booze</h1> <Xpage=167>

<hw>Booze</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Boozed</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Boozing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[D. <ets>buizen</ets>; akin to G. <ets>bausen</ets>, and perh. fr. D. <ets>buis</ets> tube, channel, <ets>bus</ets> box, jar.]</ety> <def>To drink greedily or immoderately, esp. alcoholic liquor; to tipple.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>bouse</asp>, and <asp>boose</asp>.]</altsp>

<i>Landor.</i>