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Webster 1913 Edition

Boot

Boot

(boōt)
,
Noun.
[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.
He gaf the sike man his
boote
.
Chaucer.
Thou art
boot
for many a bruise
And healest many a wound.
Sir W. Scott.
Next her Son, our soul’s best
boot
.
Wordsworth.
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.
I'll give you
boot
, I'll give you three for one.
Shakespeare
3.
Profit; gain; advantage; use.
[Obs.]
Then talk no more of flight, it is no
boot
.
Shakespeare
To boot
,
in addition; over and above; besides; as a compensation for the difference of value between things bartered.
Helen, to change, would give an eye to
boot
.
Shakespeare
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.

Boot

,
Verb.
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?
What
booteth
it to others that we wish them well, and do nothing for them?
Hooker.
What subdued
To change like this a mind so far imbued
With scorn of man, it little
boots
to know.
Byron.
What
boots
to us your victories?
Southey.
2.
To enrich; to benefit; to give in addition.
[Obs.]
And I will
boot
thee with what gift beside
Thy modesty can beg.
Shakespeare

Boot

,
Noun.
[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.
2.
An instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to extort confessions, particularly in Scotland.
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.
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.]
4.
A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.
5.
An apron or cover (of leather or rubber cloth) for the driving seat of a vehicle, to protect from rain and mud.
6.
(Plumbing)
The metal casing and flange fitted about a pipe where it passes through a roof.
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.

Boot

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Booted
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Booting
.]
1.
To put boots on, esp. for riding.
Coated and
booted
for it.
B. Jonson.
2.
To punish by kicking with a booted foot.
[U. S.]

Boot

,
Verb.
I.
To boot one's self; to put on one's boots.

Boot

,
Noun.
Booty; spoil.
[Obs. or R.]
Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition

Boot

BOOT

,
Verb.
T.
[Eng. but. The primary sense of the root is to advance, or carry forward.]
1.
To profit; to advantage
It shall not boot them.
2.
To enrich; to benefit.
I will boot thee.

BOOT

,
Noun.
Profit; gain; advantage; that which is given to make the exchange equal, or to supply the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged.
1.
To boot, in addition to; over and above; besides; a compensation for the difference of value between things bartered; as, I will give my house for yours,with one hundred dollars to boot.
2.
Spoil; plunder. [See Booty.]

BOOT

,
Noun.
1.
A covering for the leg, made of leather, and united with a shoe. This garment was originally intended for horsemen, but is now generally worn by gentlemen on foot. The different sorts are fishing-boots, worn in water; hunting-boots, a thinner kind for sportsmen; jack-boots, a strong kind for horsemen; and half-boots.
2.
A kind or rack for the leg, formerly used to torture criminals. This was made of boards bound fast to the legs by cords; or a boot or buskin, made wet and drawn upon the legs and then dried by the fire, so as to contract and squeeze the legs.
3.
A box covered with leather in the fore part of a coach. Also, an apron or leathern cover for a gig or chair, to defend persons from rain and mud. This latter application is local and improper.

BOOT

,
Verb.
T.
To put on boots.

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