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Boost (b�st), n. A push from behind, as to one who is endeavoring to climb; help. [Colloq. U. S.]
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Booster (b�stẽr), n. 1. (Elec.) An instrument for regulating the electro-motive force in an alternating-current circuit; -- so called because used to “boost”, or raise, the pressure in the circuit.
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2. an enthusiastic supporter.
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3. the first stage of a multistage rocket, providing all or part of the driving force at lift-off and until the second stage ignites, whether or not the booster stage is detached after the fuel is spent. Also called booster rocket. In some cases, a booster has been used to assist the takeoff of airplanes.
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4. (Med.) an immunizing medication given after an initial immunizing treatment, to provide increased or extended immunity. Also called booster dose. When in the form of an injection, it may be called a booster shot.
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5. any auxiliary device or part of a device to provide increased power, force, or effectiveness, as with a pumping device.
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6. (Mil.) an explosive charge which is more powerful than a primer, used in conjunction with a primer to assure detonation of the main charge. Integrated blasting caps containing separate compartments for primer and booster are used as detonators for certain explosives.
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Boot (b�t), 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.] 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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Coloq. 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.
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Boot, v. 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?
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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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2. 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.] 1. A covering for the foot and lower part of the leg, ordinarily made of leather.
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2. 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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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.]
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4. A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.
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5. 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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6. (Plumbing) The metal casing and flange fitted about a pipe where it passes through a roof.
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Coloq. Boot catcher , the person at an inn whose business it was to pull off boots and clean them. [Obs.] Swift. -- Coloq. Boot closer , one who, or that which, sews the uppers of boots. -- Coloq. Boot crimp , a frame or device used by bootmakers for drawing and shaping the body of a boot. -- Coloq. Boot hook , a hook with a handle, used for pulling on boots. -- Coloq. Boots and saddles (Cavalry Tactics), the trumpet call which is the first signal for mounted drill. -- Coloq. Sly boots . See , in the Vocabulary.
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Boot, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Booted; p. pr. & vb. n. Booting.] 1. To put boots on, esp. for riding.
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Coated and booted for it. B. Jonson.
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2. 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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Bootblack (�), n. One who blacks boots.
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Booted (�), a. 1. Wearing boots, especially boots with long tops, as for riding; as, a booted squire.
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2. (Zoöl.) Having an undivided, horny, bootlike covering; -- said of the tarsus of some birds.
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Bootee (�), n. A half boot or short boot.
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Boötes (b�ōtēz), n. [L. Bootes, Gr. bowths herdsman, fr. boy^s, gen. boos, ox, cow.] (Astron.) A northern constellation of stars near Ursa Major, containing the bright star Arcturus.
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Booth (b��), n. [OE. bothe; cf. Icel. būð, Dan. & Sw. bod, MHG. buode, G. bude, baude; from the same root as AS. būan to dwell, E. boor, bower, be; cf. Bohem. bauda, Pol. buda, Russ. budka, Lith. buda, W. bwth, pl. bythod, Gael. buth, Ir. both.] 1. A house or shed built of boards, boughs, or other slight materials, for temporary occupation. Camden.
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2. A covered stall or other temporary structure in a fair, or market, or at a polling place.
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3. a partly enclosed area within a room for use of one or a small number of people, such as one in a restaurant having a table and seats, or one at an exhibition containing a display of products from one organization.
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4. a small structure designed for the use of one person performing a special activity; as, a telephone booth; a highway toll booth; a projection booth; a guard booth.
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Boothale (�), v. t. & i. [Boot, for booty + hale.] To forage for booty; to plunder. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
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Boothose (�), n. 1. Stocking hose, or spatterdashes, in lieu of boots. Shak.
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2. Hose made to be worn with boots, as by travelers on horseback. Sir W. Scott.
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Boothy (�), n. See .
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Bootikin (�), n. [Boot + -kin.] 1. A little boot, legging, or gaiter.
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2. A covering for the foot or hand, worn as a cure for the gout. H. Walpole.
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Booting, n. Advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty. [Obs.] Sir. J. Harrington.
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Booting, n. 1. A kind of torture. See , n., 2.
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2. A kicking, as with a booted foot. [U. S.]
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Bootjack (�), n. A device for pulling off boots.
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bootlace n. a long lace for fastening boots.
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bootleg adj. distributed or sold illicitly; especially, imported illegally.
Syn. -- black-market, contraband, smuggled.
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bootleg v. 1. to sell illicit products such as drugs or alcohol.
Syn. -- smuggle.
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2. to produce alcohol illegally.
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Bootless (�), a. [From profit.] Unavailing; unprofitable; useless; without advantage or success. Chaucer.
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I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers. Shak.
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-- Bootlessly, adv. -- Bootlessness, n.
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Bootlick (�), n. A toady; a bootlicker. [Low, U. S.] Bartlett.
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bootlicker n. someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as he had no self-respect.
Syn. -- apple polisher, bootlick, fawner, groveller, truckler, ass-kisser, toady.
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bootlicking adj. attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery.
Syn. -- fawning, obsequious, sycophantic, toadyish, ass-kissing.
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Bootmaker (�), n. One who makes boots. -- Bootmaking, n.
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Boots (�), n. A servant at a hotel or elsewhere, who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes.
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Boottopping (�), n. 1. (Naut.) The act or process of daubing a vessel's bottom near the surface of the water with a mixture of tallow, sulphur, and resin, as a temporary protection against worms, after the slime, shells, etc., have been scraped off.
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2. (Naut.) Sheathing a vessel with planking over felt.
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Boottree (�), n. [Boot + tree wood, timber.] An instrument to stretch and widen the leg of a boot, consisting of two pieces, together shaped like a leg, between which, when put into the boot, a wedge is driven.
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The pretty boots trimly stretched on boottrees. Thackeray.
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Booty (�), n. [Cf. Icel. bȳti exchange, barter, Sw. byte barter, booty, Dan. bytte; akin to D. buit booty, G. beute, and fr. Icel. byta, Sw. byta, Dan. bytte, to distribute, exchange. The Scandinavian word was influenced in English by boot profit.] That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage. Milton.
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Coloq. To play booty , to play dishonestly, with an intent to lose; to allow one's adversary to win at cards at first, in order to induce him to continue playing and victimize him afterwards. [Obs.] L'Estrange.
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booyong n. large tree (Heritiera trifoliolata or Terrietia trifoliolata) of Australasia.
Syn. -- red beech, brown oak, crow's foot, stave wood, silky elm.
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Booze (b�z), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Boozed (b�zd); p. pr. & vb. n. Boozing.] [D. buizen; akin to G. bausen, and perh. fr. D. buis tube, channel, bus box, jar.] To drink greedily or immoderately, esp. alcoholic liquor; to tipple. [Written also bouse, and boose.] Landor.
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This is better than boozing in public houses. H. R. Haweis.
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Booze, n. 1. A carouse; a drinking. Sir W. Scott.
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2. any alcoholic beverage, especially a strong beverage such as whiskey.
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boozed-up a. drunk; intoxicated.
Syn. -- bombed; soused.
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Boozer (�), n. One who boozes; a toper; a guzzler of alcoholic liquors; a bouser.
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booze-up n. an occasion for heavy drinking.
Syn. -- bust, tear, bender, binge, toot.
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boozing n. the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess.
Syn. -- drink, drinking, drunkenness, crapulence.
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Boozy (�), a. A little intoxicated; fuddled; stupid with liquor; bousy. [Colloq.] C. Kingsley.
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bop n. an early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940).
Syn. -- bebop.
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Bopeep (�), n. [Bo + peep.] The act of looking out suddenly, as from behind a screen, so as to startle some one (as by children in play), or of looking out and drawing suddenly back, as if frightened.
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I for sorrow sung,
That such a king should play bopeep,
And go the fools among. Shak.
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Borable (�), a. Capable of being bored. [R.]
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Borachte (�), n. [Sp. borracha a leather bottle for wine, borracho drunk, fr. borra a lamb.] A large leather bottle for liquors, etc., made of the skin of a goat or other animal. Hence: A drunkard. [Obs.]
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You're an absolute borachio. Congreve.
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Boracic (�), a. [Cf. F. boracique. See .] Pertaining to, or produced from, borax; containing boron; boric; as, boracic acid.
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Boracite (�), n. (Min.) A mineral of a white or gray color occurring massive and in isometric crystals; in composition it is a magnesium borate with magnesium chloride.
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Boracous (�), a. (Chem.) Relating to, or obtained from, borax; containing borax.
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Borage (�), n. [OE. borage (cf. F. bourrache, It. borraggine, borrace, LL. borago, borrago, LGr. �), fr. LL. borra, F. bourre, hair of beasts, flock; so called from its hairy leaves.] (Bot.) A mucilaginous plant of the genus Borago (B. officinalis), which is used, esp. in France, as a demulcent and diaphoretic.
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Boragewort (�), n. Plant of the Borage family.
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Boraginaceous (�), a. (Bot.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants (Boraginaceæ) which includes the borage, heliotrope, beggar's lice, and many pestiferous plants.
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Boragineous (�), a. (Bot.) Relating to the Borage tribe; boraginaceous.
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Boramez (�), n. See .
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Borassus n. a genus of palm trees including the (Borassus flabellifer, formerly Borassus flabelliformis).
Syn. -- genus Borassus.
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Borate (�), n. [From .] (Chem.) A salt formed by the combination of boric acid with a base or positive radical.
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borated adj. mixed or impregnated with borax.
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Borax (�), n. [OE. boras, fr. F. borax, earlier spelt borras; cf. LL. borax, Sp. borraj; all fr. Ar. b�rag, fr. Pers. b�rah.] A white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors on porcelain, and as a soap. It occurs native in certain mineral springs, and is made from the boric acid of hot springs in Tuscany. It was originally obtained from a lake in Thibet, and was sent to Europe under the name of tincal. Borax is a pyroborate or tetraborate of sodium, Na2B4O7.10H2O.
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Coloq. Borax bead . (Chem.) See , n., 3.
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Borborygm (�), n. [F. borborygme, fr. Gr. �, fr. � to rumble in the bowels.] (Med.) A rumbling or gurgling noise produced by wind in the bowels. Dunglison.
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Bord (�), n. [See , n.] 1. A board; a table. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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2. (Mining) The face of coal parallel to the natural fissures.
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Bord (�), n. See . [Obs.] Spenser.
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Bordage (�), n. [LL. bordagium.] The base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his cottage.
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Bordar (�), n. [LL. bordarius, fr. borda a cottage; of uncertain origin.] A villein who rendered menial service for his cottage; a cottier.
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The cottar, the bordar, and the laborer were bound to aid in the work of the home farm. J. R. Green.
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Bordeaux (�), a. Pertaining to Bordeaux in the south of France. -- n. A claret wine from Bordeaux.
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Bordeaux mixture. (Hort.) A fungicidal mixture composed of blue vitriol, lime, and water. The formula in common use is: blue vitriol, 6 lbs.; lime, 4 lbs.; water, 35 -- 50 gallons.
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{ Bordel (�), Bordello (�), } n. [F. bordel, orig. a little hut, OF. borde hut, cabin, of German origin, and akin to E. board,n.See. , n.] A brothel; a bawdyhouse; a house devoted to prostitution. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
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Bordelais (�), a. [F.] Of or pertaining to Bordeaux, in France, or to the district around Bordeaux.
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Bordeller (�), n. A keeper or a frequenter of a brothel. [Obs.] Gower.
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Bordello (�), n. a building where prostitutes are available for hire; a brothel.
Syn. -- whorehouse, whore house, brothel, bagnio, house of prostitution, house of ill repute, bawdyhouse, bawdy house, cathouse, sporting house.
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Border (�), n. [OE. bordure, F. bordure, fr. border to border, fr. bord a border; of German origin; cf. MHG. borte border, trimming, G. borte trimming, ribbon; akin to E. board in sense 8. See , n., and cf. .] 1. The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.
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Upon the borders of these solitudes. Bentham.
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In the borders of death. Barrow.
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2. A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of a country; a frontier district.
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3. A strip or stripe arranged along or near the edge of something, as an ornament or finish.
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4. A narrow flower bed.
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Coloq. Border land , land on the frontiers of two adjoining countries; debatable land; -- often used figuratively; as, the border land of science. -- Coloq. The Border , Coloq. The Borders , specifically, the frontier districts of Scotland and England which lie adjacent. -- Coloq. Over the border , across the boundary line or frontier.
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Syn. -- Edge; verge; brink; margin; brim; rim; boundary; confine.
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Border, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bordered (�); p. pr. & vb. n. Bordering.] 1. To touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous or adjacent; -- with on or upon as, Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.
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2. To approach; to come near to; to verge.
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Wit which borders upon profaneness deserves to be branded as folly. Abp. Tillotson.
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Border, v. t. 1. To make a border for; to furnish with a border, as for ornament; as, to border a garment or a garden.
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2. To be, or to have, contiguous to; to touch, or be touched, as by a border; to be, or to have, near the limits or boundary; as, the region borders a forest, or is bordered on the north by a forest.
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The country is bordered by a broad tract called the “hot region.” Prescott.
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Shebah and Raamah . . . border the sea called the Persian gulf. Sir W. Raleigh.
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3. To confine within bounds; to limit. [Obs.]
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That nature, which contemns its origin,
Can not be bordered certain in itself. Shak.
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Bordereau (?), n.; pl. Bordereaux (#). [F.] A note or memorandum, esp. one containing an enumeration of documents.
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bordered adj. having a border especially of a specified kind; sometimes used as a combining term; as, black-bordered handkerchief. Antonym of unbordered. [Narrower terms: boxed; deckled, deckle-edged, featheredged; lined; seagirt, sea-girt] Also See: .
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Borderer (�), n. One 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 or region.
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Borderers of the Caspian. Dyer.
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Bordland (�), n. [Bordar (or perh. bord a board) + land.] (O. Eng. Law) Either land held by a bordar, or the land which a lord kept for the maintenance of his board, or table. Spelman.
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Bordlode (�), n. [Bordar (or perh. bord a board) + lode leading.] (O. Eng. Law) The service formerly required of a tenant, to carry timber from the woods to the lord's house. Bailey. Mozley & W.
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Bordman (�), n. [Bordar (or perh. bord a board) + man.] A bordar; a tenant in bordage.
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{ Bordrag (�), Bordraging (�), } n. [Perh. from OE. bord, for border + raging. Cf. .] An incursion upon the borders of a country; a raid. [Obs.] Spenser.
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Bord service (�). [Bordar (or perh. bord a board) + service.] (O. Eng. Law) Service due from a bordar; bordage.
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Bordure (�), n. [F. bordure. See , n.] (Her.) A border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged.
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Bore (�), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bored (�); p. pr. & vb. n. Boring.] [OE. borien, AS. borian; akin to Icel. bora, Dan. bore, D. boren, OHG. por�n, G. bohren, L. forare, Gr. � to plow, Zend bar. √91.] 1. To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument; to make a round hole in or through; to pierce; as, to bore a plank.
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I'll believe as soon this whole earth may be bored. Shak.
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2. To form or enlarge by means of a boring instrument or apparatus; as, to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole.
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Short but very powerful jaws, by means whereof the insect can bore, as with a centerbit, a cylindrical passage through the most solid wood. T. W. Harris.
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3. To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; as, to bore one's way through a crowd; to force a narrow and difficult passage through. “What bustling crowds I bored.” Gay.
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4. To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.
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He bores me with some trick. Shak.
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Used to come and bore me at rare intervals. Carlyle.
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5. To befool; to trick. [Obs.]
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I am abused, betrayed; I am laughed at, scorned,
Baffled and bored, it seems. Beau. & Fl.
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Bore, v. i. 1. To make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool; as, to bore for water or oil (i. e., to sink a well by boring for water or oil); to bore with a gimlet; to bore into a tree (as insects).
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2. To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns; as, this timber does not bore well, or is hard to bore.
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3. To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
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They take their flight . . . boring to the west. Dryden.
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