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   Boot , 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.]
   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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   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.
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   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.
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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.]
   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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   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.]
   A covering for the foot and lower part of the leg, ordinarily made of leather.
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   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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   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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   A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.
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   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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   (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.]
   To put boots on, esp. for riding.
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   Coated and booted for it.
   B. Jonson.
   
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   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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