Found 2 hits - Term: to boot, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
boot \boot\ b=oot, n. oe. bot, bote, advantage, amends,
cure, as. b=ot; akin to icel. b=ot, sw. bot, dan. bod,
goth. b=ota, d. boete, g. busse; prop., a making good or
better, from the root of e. better, adj. root255.
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.
1913 webster
see also:
to boot
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
to boot
adv : by way of addition; furthermore; "he serves additionally as
the ceo" syn: additionally, in addition
see also:
additionally in addition
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Boot Out, definition of term: Boot Out
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Cold Boot, definition of term: Cold Boot
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Chukka Boot, definition of term: Chukka Boot
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