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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.
      1913 webster

            he gaf the sike man his boote.        --chaucer.
      1913 webster

            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.
      1913 webster

   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
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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 

Results 1 - 4 of 4 found about to boot:

Boot >> B Words
Boot, definition of term: Boot
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Boot Out >> B Words
Boot Out, definition of term: Boot Out
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Cold Boot >> C Words
Cold Boot, definition of term: Cold Boot
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Chukka Boot >> C Words
Chukka Boot, definition of term: Chukka Boot
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