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A toady. [Low, U. S.] Bartlett.

One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.

A servant at a hotel or elsewhere, who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes.

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.

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. The pretty boots trimly stretched on boottrees. Thackeray.

d by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage. Milton. 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.

To drink greedily or immoderately, esp. alcoholic liquor; to tipple. [Written also bouse, and boose.] Landor. This is better than boozing in public houses. H. R. Haweis.

One who boozes; a toper; a guzzler of alcoholic liquors; a bouser.

A little intoxicated; fuddled; stupid with liquor; bousy. [Colloq.] C. Kingsley.

drawing suddenly back, as if frightened. I for sorrow sung, That such a king should play bopeep, And go the fools among. Shak.

Capable of being bored. [R.]

A large leather bottle for liquors, etc., made of the skin of a goat or other animal. Hence: A drunkard. [Obs.] You're an absolute borachio. Congreve.

Pertaining to, or produced from, borax; containing boron; boric; as, boracic acid.

gray color occurring massive and in isometric crystals; in composition it is a magnesium borate with magnesium chloride.

Relating to, or obtained from, borax; containing borax.

A mucilaginous plant of the genus Borago (B. officinalis), which is used, esp. in France, as a demulcent and diaphoretic.

Plant of the Borage family.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants (Boraginaceæ) which includes the borage, heliotrope, beggar's lice, and many pestiferous plants.

Relating to the Borage tribe; boraginaceous.

See Barometz.