Part 1299

<i>Burrill.</i> <i>Bouvier.</i> <i>Blackstone.</i> </note>

<h1>Boteless</h1> <Xpage=169>

<hw>Bote"less</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Unavailing; in vain. See <er>Bootless</er>.</def>

<h1>Botfly</h1> <Xpage=169>

<hw>Bot"fly`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A dipterous insect of the family (<spn>Estrid\'91</spn>, of many different species, some of which are particularly troublesome to domestic animals, as the horse, ox, and sheep, on which they deposit their eggs. A common species is one of the botflies of the horse (<spn>Gastrophilus equi</spn>), the larv\'91 of which (<i>bots</i>) are taken into the stomach of the animal, where they live several months and pass through their larval states. In tropical America one species sometimes lives under the human skin, and another in the stomach. See <er>Gadfly</er>.</def>

<h1>Both</h1> <Xpage=169>

<hw>Both</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a. or pron.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>bothe</ets>, <ets>ba<?/e</ets>, fr. Icel. <ets>b\'be<?/ir</ets>; akin to Dan. <ets>baade</ets>, Sw. <ets>b\'86da</ets>, Goth. <ets>baj<?/<?/s</ets>, OHG. <ets>beid<?/</ets>, <ets>b<?/d<?/</ets>, G. & D. <ets>beide</ets>, also AS. <ets>begen</ets>, <ets>b\'be</ets>, <ets>b<?/</ets>, Goth. <ets>bai</ets>, and Gr. <ets><?/</ets>, L. <ets>ambo</ets>, Lith. <ets>ab\'85</ets>, OSlav. <ets>oba</ets>, Skr. <ets>ubha</ets>. &root;310. Cf. <er>Amb</er>-.]</ety> <def>The one and the other; the two; the pair, without exception of either.</def>

<note>&hand; It is generally used adjectively with nouns; as, both horses ran away; but with pronouns, and often with nous, it is used substantively, and followed by <i>of</i>.</note>

<note>It frequently stands as a pronoun.</note>

<blockquote>She alone is heir to <b>both</b> of us. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and <b>both</b> of them made a covenant. <i>Gen. xxi. 27.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>He will not bear the loss of his rank, because he can bear the loss of his estate; but he will bear <b>both</b>, because he is prepared for <b>both</b>. <i>Bolingbroke.</i></blockquote>

<note>It is often used in apposition with nouns or pronouns.</note>

<blockquote>Thy weal and woe are <b>both</b> of them extremes. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>This said, they <b>both</b> betook them several ways. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<note><i>Both</i> now always precedes any other attributive words; as, <i>both</i> their armies; both our eyes.</note>

<note><i>Both of</i> is used before pronouns in the objective case; as, <i>both of</i> us, them, whom, etc.; but before substantives its used is colloquial, <i>both</i> (without <it>of</it>) being the preferred form; as, <i>both</i> the brothers.</note>

<h1>Both</h1> <Xpage=169>

<hw>Both</hw>, <tt>conj.</tt> <def>As well; not only; equally.</def>

<note><i>Both</i> precedes the first of two co\'94rdinate words or phrases, and is followed by <it>and</it> before the other, <i>both</i> . . . <it>and</it> . . . ; as well the one as the other; not only this, but also that; equally the former and the latter. It is also sometimes followed by more than two co\'94rdinate words, connected by <it>and</it> expressed or understood.</note>

<blockquote>To judge <b>both</b> quick and dead. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>A masterpiece <b>both</b> for argument and style. <i>Goldsmith.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>To whom <b>bothe</b> heven and erthe and see is sene. <i>Chaucer.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote><b>Both</b> mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound. <i>Goldsmith.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>He prayeth well who loveth well <b>Both</b> man and bird and beast. <i>Coleridge.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Bother</h1> <Xpage=169>

<hw>Both"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Bothered</er> (<?/); <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Bothering</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. Ir. <ets>buaidhirt</ets> trouble, <ets>buaidhrim</ets> I vex.]</ety> <def>To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See <er>Pother</er>.</def>

<note>&hand; The imperative is sometimes used as an exclamation mildly imprecatory.</note>