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Boot (bo͞ot), n. [OE. bot, bote, advantage, amends, cure, AS. bōt; akin to Icel. bōt, Sw. bot, Dan. bod, Goth. bōta, D. boete, G. busse; prop., a making good or better, from the root of E. better, adj. √255.]
1. Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings relief.
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He gaf the sike man his boote. Chaucer.
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Thou art boot for many a bruise
And healest many a wound. Sir W. Scott.
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Next her Son, our soul's best boot. Wordsworth.
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2. That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged.
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I'll give you boot, I'll give you three for one. Shak.
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3. Profit; gain; advantage; use. [Obs.]
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Then talk no more of flight, it is no boot. Shak.
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To boot, in addition; over and above; besides; as a compensation for the difference of value between things bartered.
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Helen, to change, would give an eye to boot. Shak.
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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 boot. Jer. Taylor.
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Boot, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Booted; p. pr. & vb. n. Booting.]
1. To profit; to advantage; to avail; -- generally followed by it; as, what boots it?
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What booteth it to others that we wish them well, and do nothing for them? Hooker.
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What subdued
To change like this a mind so far imbued
With scorn of man, it little boots to know. Byron.
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What boots to us your victories? Southey.
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2. To enrich; to benefit; to give in addition. [Obs.]
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And I will boot thee with what gift beside
Thy modesty can beg. Shak.
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Boot, n. [OE. bote, OF. bote, F. botte, LL. botta; of uncertain origin.]
1. A covering for the foot and lower part of the leg, ordinarily made of leather.
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2. An instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to extort confessions, particularly in Scotland.
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So he was put to the torture, which in Scotland they call the boots; for they put a pair of iron boots close on the leg, and drive wedges between them and the leg. Bp. Burnet.
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3. A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach. [Obs.]
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4. A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.
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5. An apron or cover (of leather or rubber cloth) for the driving seat of a vehicle, to protect from rain and mud.
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6. (Plumbing) The metal casing and flange fitted about a pipe where it passes through a roof.
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Boot catcher, the person at an inn whose business it was to pull off boots and clean them. [Obs.] Swift. -- Boot closer, one who, or that which, sews the uppers of boots. -- Boot crimp, a frame or device used by bootmakers for drawing and shaping the body of a boot. -- Boot hook, a hook with a handle, used for pulling on boots. -- Boots and saddles (Cavalry Tactics), the trumpet call which is the first signal for mounted drill. -- Sly boots. See Slyboots, in the Vocabulary.
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Boot, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Booted; p. pr. & vb. n. Booting.]
1. To put boots on, esp. for riding.
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Coated and booted for it. B. Jonson.
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2. To punish by kicking with a booted foot. [U. S.]
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Boot, v. i. To boot one's self; to put on one's boots.
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Boot, n. Booty; spoil. [Obs. or R.] Shak.
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