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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Bōot'hōse, n. p. 152Stocking-hose, or spatterdashes, in lieu of boots. Shak.Bōot'i-kīn, n. p. 152A little boot. 2. A covering for the leg or hand, used as a cure for the gout. "I desire no more of my bootikins than to curtail my fits [of the gout]." H. Walpole.Bōōt'ing, n. p. 152Advantage; gain; gain by plunder. [Obs.] Harrington. 2. A kind of torture. See BOOT, n., 2.Bōot'-jāck, n. p. 152An instrument for drawing off boots.Bōōt'less, a. p. 152Unavailing; unprofitable; useless; without advantage or success. I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers. Shak.Bōōt'less-ly, adv. p. 152Without use or profit. Fanshawe.Bōōt'less-ness, n. p. 152State of being unavailing.Bōōt'-lick, n. p. 152One who cringes and flatters to obtain favors; a lickspittle; a toady. [U. S.] Bartlett.Bōōt'-tōp'ping, n. p. 152The operation of cleansing a ship's bottom near the surface of the water, by scraping off the grass, slime, shells, &c., and daubing it with a mixture of tallow, sulphur, and resin. Totten.Boot'-a-tree, n. p. 152An instrument to stretch and widenBoot'-last p. 152the leg of a boot, consisting of two pieces, shaped like a leg, between which, when put into the boot, a wedge is driven. The pretty boots firmly stretched on boot-trees. Thackeray.Bōōt'y, n. p. 152That which is seized by violence and robbery, especially spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage. Milton. To play booty, to play dishonestly, with an intent to lose. [Obs.] L'Estrange.Bo-peep', n. p. 152A play to amuse children, by peeping from behind any object, as a screen, and crying out bo! I for sorrow sung. That such a king should play bo-peep, And go the fools among. Shak.Bōr'a-ble, a. p. 152Capable of being bored. [Rare.]Bo-răch'io, n. p. 152A bottle or cask for wine. [Obs.] Dryden. 2. A drunkard. [Obs.] Congreve.Bo-rā'çic, a. p. 152Pertaining to, or produced from, borax.Boracic acid p. 152a compound of the element boron with oxygen, generally obtained from borax by adding sulphuric acid. It is also found native, in certain mineral springs in Italy. Dana.Bō'ra-gite, n. p. 152(Min.) A mineral composed of boracic acid and magnesia; a native borate of magnesia. Dana.Bō'ra-cōus, a. p. 152(Chem.) Relating to, or obtained from, borax.Boracous acid p. 152a compound of boron and oxygen, containing a less proportion of the latter than boracic acid.Bōr'age, n. p. 152(Bot.) A plant of the genus Borago (B. officinalis), formerly esteemed as a cordial. London.Bōr'a-mez, n. p. 152See BAROMETZ.Bō'rāte, n. p. 152(Chem.) A salt formed by the combination of boracic acid with a base.Bō'rax, n. p. 152(Chem.) Biborate of soda; a salt formed by a combination of boracic acid with soda. It was originally obtained from a lake in Thibet, and was sent to Europe under the name of tincal. It is of a white…Bŏr'bo-rȳgm, n. p. 152A rumbling noise of wind in the bowels. [Obs. and rare.]Bōrd, n. p. 152A feigned story; a jest. [Obs.] Spenser.Bōrd'age, n. p. 152See BORD-LAND.Bōr'del or Bor-dĕl'lo, n. p. 152A brothel; a bawdy-house; a house devoted to prostitution. [Obs.] B. Jonson.Bōr'del-ler, n. p. 152Keeper of a brothel. [Obs.] Gower.Bōr'der, n. p. 152The outer part or edge of any thing, as of a garment, a country, &c.; margin; boundary; confines; verge; brink. “Upon the borders of these solitudes,” Bentham. “In the borders of death,” Barrow.…Bōr'der, v. i. p. 152To touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous or adjacent;—with on or upon; as, Connecticut, on the north, borders upon Massachusetts. 2. To approach; to come near to. Wit which borders upon…Bōr'der, v. t. p. 152To make a border for; to furnish or adorn with a border of ornaments; as, to border a garment or a garden. 2. To reach to; to touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous to. The country is…Bōr'der-er, n. p. 152One who dwells on a border, or at the extreme part or confines of a country, region, or tract of land; one who dwells near to a place. “Borderers of the Caspian.” Dyer.Bōrd'-half'pen-ny, n. p. 152(Eng. Law.) Money paid for permission to set up boards or a stall in market. Burn.Bōrd'-lānd, n. p. 152(Old Law.) The demain land which a lord kept in his hands for the maintenance of his bord, board, or table. Spelman.Bōrd'lōad or Bōrd'lōde, n. p. 152(Eng. Law.) (a.) The service required of a tenant to carry timber from the woods to the lord's house. (b.) The quantity of provision paid by a bordman for bordland. Wharton. Tomlins.Bōrd’man, n. p. 152A tenant of bordland, who supplied his lord with provisions.Bôrd'-rāg'ing, n. p. 152An incursion upon the borders of a country. [Obs.] Spenser.Bōrd'-sĕrv'ice, n. p. 152(Eng. Law.) The tenure of bord-lands. Wharton. Tomlins.Bôrd'üre, n. p. 152(Her.) A border or strip of metal, color, or fur, within the escutcheon and around it.Bōre, v. t. p. 152To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, or other instrument. Hence, to make hollow; to form a round hole in; to pierce; as, to bore a cannon. “Earth may be bored.”…Bōre, v. i. p. 152To pierce or enter by boring; as, an auger bores well. 2. To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that turns; as, this timber does not bore well, or is hard to bore. 3. To push forward. [Obs.]…Bōre, n. p. 152The hole made by boring; hence the cavity or hollow of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm; the size of the cavity; the caliber, whether formed by boring or not. “The bores of wind instruments.”…Bōre, n. p. 152(Physical Geog.) (a.) A tidal flood of great height and force formed at the mouths of some rivers, where, owing to obstructions by bars and the form of the channel, the whole of the flow, after being…Bōre, imp. p. 152of bear. See BEAR.Bō're-al, a. p. 152Northern; pertaining to the north, or the north wind. Gardner. So from their own clear north in radiant streams, Bright over Europe bursts the boreal morn. Thomson.Bō're-as, n. p. 152The north wind; a cold, northerly wind.Bōre'-cōle, n. p. 152A variety of cabbage, whose leaves are not formed into a compact head, but are loose, and are generally curled or wrinkled; kale.Bo-ree', n. p. 152A certain dance, or movement in common time, of four crotchets in a bar, always beginning in the last quaver or last crotchet of the measure. Busby. ☞ Smart accents the first syllable.Bōr'el, n. p. 152A kind of coarse, woolen cloth. [Obs.] 2. A kind of light stuff, of which the warp is silk and the woof is wool. Fleming.Bōr'er, n. p. 152One who bores; an instrument for boring. 2. (Zoöl.) (a.) A genus of sea-worms that pierce wood; Terebella. (b.) One of several species of worms, or the insects producing them, which penetrate trees…Bōr'ing, n. p. 153The act or process of making a hole with an auger, drill, or other like instrument. One of the most important applications of boring is in the formation of artesian wells. Tomlinson. 2. A hole made…Bōr'ing-bār, n. p. 153(Mach.) A revolving or stationary bar, carrying one or more cutting tools for dressing round holes.Bōr'ing-ma-chīne', n. p. 153(Mach.) A contrivance for dressing or boring holes; strictly, a machine tool, having a fixed or stationary cutter-head, for dressing holes already made, and sometimes called a borer, as a car-wheel…Bōr'ing-tool, n. p. 153A cutting tool placed in a cutter-head to dress round holes. 2. A drill.Bōrn, p. p. p. 153of bear. Brought forth, as an animal; brought into life; produced. “No one could be born into slavery in Mexico.” Prescott. Born again (Theol.), regenerated, renewed, having received spiritual life.…Bōrne, p. p. p. 153of bear. Carried; conveyed; supported; defrayed. See BEAR.Bor-nous', n. p. 153See BOURNOUS.Bō'ron, n. p. 153(Chem.) An elementary substance, nearly related to carbon, of a deep olive color, infusible, and not a conductor of electricity. At a red heat, it burns, uniting with oxygen, and forming boracic…Bōr'ŏugh, n. p. 153An incorporated town that is not a city; in England, a town or village that sends members to parliament; in Scotland, a body corporate, consisting of the inhabitants of a certain district, erected by…