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One who plunders or pillages without the authority of national warfare; a member of a predatory band; a pillager; a buccaneer; a sea robber. Bacon.

The act, practice, or gains of a freebooter; freebooting. Booth.

Acting the freebooter; practicing freebootery; robbing. Your freebooting acquaintance. Sir W. Scott.

Freebootery. [Obs.]

A boot with a short top covering only the ankle. See Cocker, and Congress boot, under Congress.

A humerous appellation for a sly, cunning, or waggish person. Slyboots was cursedly cunning to hide 'em. Goldsmith.

See Tollbooth.

are weighed to ascertain the duties or toll. [Obs.] He saw Levy . . . sitting at the tollbooth. Wyclif (Mark ii. 14).

High boots, having generally a band of some kind of light- colored leather around the upper part of the leg; riding boots.

To take off the boots from.

A riding boot for men, the front of which came above the knee; also, a similar shorter boot worn under the trousers.

Of or pertaining to aërolites; meteoric; as, aërolitic iron. Booth.

son riding on an outside seat of a vehicle, to defend him from the rain, snow, or dust; a boot. "The weather being too hot for the apron." Hughes.

A very minute barb or beard. Booth.

A prayer; boon. [Archaic] What is good for a bootless bene Wordsworth.

To make black and shining, as boots or a stove, by applying blacking and then polishing with a brush.

A composition for blacking shoes, boots, etc.; also, one for taking impressions of engraved work.

A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin. [Obs.]

Any preparation for making things black; esp. one for giving a black luster to boots and shoes, or to stoves.

A kind of half boot, named from the Prussian general Blücher. Thackeray.